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Workplace Health and Safety
Inspections
How often should be conducted?
Regularly
Frequency
Depends on workplace
Nature
Circumstances
What should be inspected?
Health and safety
Hazards
Regulations
Types
Processes
Operations
Innovated
Occupations
Equipment risks
Substances
Situations
Take employees perspective
Complete guide to inspection requirement
Checklists
Save
Time
Ensure inspection is carried out
Vary according to the workplace environment
Areas to cover
Housekeeping
Fire safety
Chemical hazards
Manual handing hazards
First aid provisions
Electrical safety
Who should be involved in these?
Employees who works in the area involved in the inspections
Employer and emploee representatives
What happens after the inspection?
Stages
Identification
Risk assesment
Improving
Health
Safety
Effectiveness
Monitoring
Evaluating
Incidents and dangerous occurrence investigations
Incidents have a number of cases
Process
Occurance - investigation
Identify all underlying causes
Develop suitable risk controls
Factors that may contribute to incidents
Unguarded machinery hazards
Inadequate maintenance resulting in broken or malfunctioning machinery
Using incorrect materials
Failure to stablish or follow safe working practices
Incorrect work procedures
Consultants
Provide specialist advice and services
Private sectors
Public sectors
Useful for an organization
Skills and knowledge
Handle the problem
Define the problem
Cope with changes
Occupational health and safety laws
New codes and standards
Establish mechanisms for preventing workplace injuries
Suitability
Previous work or experince tackling similar issues
Education and qualifications
Proffesional affiliations
Special capabilities
Bussiness practice
Ethical issues
Codes of ethics
Insurance
Ownership of material
Confidentiality
Conflict or interest
Consultants' contribution value depends on
Clearly defined and documented problem
Access to the necessary information
Involve
Health and Safety Representatives
Employees
Reporting and meeting schedule
Adherence to the timetable
Consistent with the requirements work
Specific areas of expertise
Occupational physicians
Ifluence of work on people's health
Influence of people's health on work
Occupational hygienists
Physical, chemical and biological factors
May adversely affect the health
Risk managers
Development of health and safety prevention programs
Ergonomists
Design
Equipment
Environment
Machinery
Systems
Jobs
Health and safety managers
Health and safety management system
Ocupational health nurse consultants
Application of specialist nursing knowledge and skills
Occupational therapists
Reintegration after a trauma or disability
Occupational physioterapists
Injuries and diseases diagnosis, treatment and follow up
Health physicists
Proctetion against effects of radiation
Regulations to ensure safety
Elimination
Undercut substances
Only the unecessary ones
Engineering controls
Changing processes
Renovating tools
Equipment in good conditions
Substitution
Least expensive
Control
Isolation
Enclosing a hazard
Toxic substance
Plant
Process
Controlled
Keeped away
Personal protective clothing and equipment
Protection
Individual
Safety attire
Equipment system
Administrative controls
Changing work
Put limits
Reduce exposure to hazards
Hazard managment and Risk control/assessment
Stages
Identifying potential hazards
Planning and purchasing stages
Programs
Adress specific hazards
What is a hazard?
Situation with the potential to cause injury
How are they identified?
Consulting health and safety representatives
Workplace inspections
Examining records of indicents and dangerous ocurrences
What is a risk?
Likelihood that exposure to a hazard
Result
Injury
Disease
Risk assessment
Determines the likelihood of injury or illmess
Caused by the hazard
Risk control
Taking actions to eliminate or reduce
Likelihood that exposure to a hazard