Safety

ensure that all known safety factors are taken into account in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of plants, machinery and equipment; • To ensure that adequate safety instructions are given to all employees; • To provide wherever necessary protective equipment, safety appliances and clothing and to ensure their proper use; • To inform employees about materials, equipment or processes used in their work which are known to be potentially hazardous to health or safety; • To keep…

Fire Inspectors 5 Most Common Violations Building owners and managers have a very tough job to do - from dealing with maintenance, security, tenant issues and government compliance. Always considering fire safety ensures that some very simple, but sometimes overlooked, items are addressed and small problems are alleviated before they turn into big catastrophes. A lack of handling routine maintenance items can end in disaster. The fire at The Station Nightclub in 2003, where 100 people were…

Safety Data Sheets (SDS) is required by Hazard Communication Standards to be issued by any chemical producers to explain the threats and menaces the chemicals pose on the users. The chemical focused on today is Ethidium bromide. The purpose of this is to learn and familiarize oneself with safety data sheets in order to understand the hazards and protective precautions needed to be taken while handling a certain chemical (in this case: ethidium bromide). III. Data The 16 sections of the SDS…

supervision to ensure, as far as reasonable practicable, the safety, health, and welfare at work of his employees - Determining and implementing the safety, health and welfare measures, when identifying any hazards and carrying out a risk assessment - Preparing plans and procedures to be followed and measures that needs to be taken in the cases of emergency or serious danger - Employer has to ensure that any measures taken by him in relation to safety, health and welfare at work do not…

Prepare Make a plan before something happens. Make sure you have a safety plan set before something happens and that everyone knows what to do and were to go before something happens and how to contact each other in case of emergency. - Write down emergency phone numbers and keep them by the phones, as well as saved in the phone - Have a fire extinguisher in a place where everyone will know where to find it o Make sure everyone knows how to use it - Know where the closest shelter is and how to…

spite of following these set of rules and regulation formulated by WH&S, safety performance or work related accidents keeps on increasing. Thus it has been discussed in this essay that apart from this legislation safety culture in an organization and safety performance are of greater value. These two aspects when used at workplace helps in improving the safety performance. Issues like assessing safety behavior of employees, safety culture in an organization, rules, believes, attitudes, good…

Three theories of accident causation can be used to explain possible safety problems. Human factor theory is commonly used to explain accident causal by examining chain of events that can be traced to human error. Human factor theory focusses on three areas: overload, wrong activities, and wrong response. Human factor theory thus states that human error is the ultimate cause of safety problems. First, human error can happen because of overload. Overload is the imbalance between capacity and time…

ethical manner with regards to the safety of its toys. Whereas he terminated several dozen suppliers for noncompliance and made numerous changes in its own plant. He also did a recall on the toys that were found panted with lead, which is stated to be a harmful neuro toxin and dangerous to children who ingested or swallow bits of the paint. Mattel could have implemented a strict safety checkpoint from the beginning. As such he could be able to ensure that his safety standards has been meet/…

Safety in Welding One day in a welding class at Isothermal Community College, an student was grinding metal on an angle grinder and was using the clear helmet, which is the safe way to grind. Then he took the piece of metal and started welding with the clear grinder helmet on. This caused his eyes to burn and he saw black spots for a few minutes. When changing jobs people also have to change safety equipment. In all jobs, there are dangerous situations that’s why there are safety rules and…

progresses; they also consider hazardous driver behaviors as serious threats to their well-being. In the 2013 Safety Culture Index, the AAA accurately expressed how most citizens of the United States typically react to certain automobile concerns. A survey revealed that many drivers generally disclose a “do as I say, not as I do” response to an abundant amount of these issues (AAA; Traffic Safety Culture Index). Nevertheless, more than one in five Americans admit that they have been involved…