Introduction Of Health And Safety

TRAINING:

Training means helping people to learn how to do something, telling people what they should or should not do, or simply giving them information.Training isn`t just about formal ‘Classroom’ courses

FACT AND FIGURES:

·         200 workers die Annually

·         1 million workers get injured

·         2 million workers get various diseases and aliments

    INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH AND SAFETY

·         Safety derived from French word Sauf

·         Right of employees

·         The OSHA(Occupational Safety And Health Administration) was establish in 1970 and implemented in 1971.Then in 1990 it was amended and made as an act

1.       Who is covered under the Law

2.       The role and fuction of the health and safety committees

3.       The health and safety requirement on the job, Including training

4.       Duties of employers and other such as supervisors

5.       The right to refuse work

6.       The righ to stop work

7.       The control of toxic and hazardous substances on the job

8.       Enforcement by government inspectors to ensure compliance with the act and regulation and to ensure that the internal responsibility system in working.

PURPOSE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY

·         Physical, mental and social welfare of workers

·         To reduce the adverse affects due to work on workers

·         To provide workers better place

·          Workers need safety at workplace

·         10 hours a day at work site

·         Due to ignorance of H&S concepts; workers get various diseases

·         Diseases due to Dust

HAZARDS AND CONTROLS

HAZARDS- A hazard is a potential source of harm or adverse health effect on a person or persons.

RISK- is the likelihood that a person may be harmed or suffers adverse health effects. if exposed to a hazards.

CONTROL-These are the measures used to reduce or eliminate the hazards.

EXAMPLE- If there was a spill of water in a room then that water would present a slipping hazard to person passing through it. If   Acess to that area was prevented bio physical barrier then the hazard would remain though  the risk would be minimized.

HIERARCHY OF CONTROLS

Eliminate Hazards     : (Get rid off from hazard eliminate the water on floor)

Substitute                   : (After the most hazardous thing)

Engineering Controls: (By the use of technology. Changing the process or procedure or design (isolation, enclosure)

PPE                               : Using personal protective equipment (Helmets, Gloves)

TYPES OF SAFETY

NORMATIVE SAFETY

Normative safety is a term used to describe products or designs that meet applicable design standards and  protection

SUBSTANTIVE SAFETY

Substantive or objective safety means that the real-world safety history is favourable, wheather or not standards are met

PERCEIVED SAFETY

Perceived or subjective safety refers to the level of comfort of users