...1. Introduction: A Health and Safety risk assessment is a planned process in which all hazards in the workplace are identified and their risk prospective evaluated. The risk possible is a mixture of the likelihood “when could an accident happen” with the severity “what could result” if an accident did happen. Once the risk potential has been identified, it will allow you to decide whether you have taken adequate (reasonable practicable) precaution or whether you need to do more to prevent harm. (Boyle, Tony (2008) Health and Safety: Risk Management,) Risk assessment is an integral part of any Health and Safety management system. Conducting risk assessment provided an organization with a safe and effective working environment. Risk Assessment should be conducted on a continual basis to manage the risk associated with the hazards in the work place. The main objective of a risk assessment is to determine what the hazards in the work place are; how can these hazards affect the organization (people, assets, reputation and environment) and what controls must be put in place. There are five essential stage processes in conducting a risk assessment; Identify all the hazards; Evaluation of the risks; Measures to control the risks; Recording the findings and Review the assessment. The intent of this paper is to demonstrate what are the crucial factors associated with undertaking a risk assessment. 2. Analyses/ Discussion: A basic Risk Assessments factor varies because there...
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...welfare of the people at work. The aim is to ensure that the workers can continue their job related responsibilities and work commitments within a safe and secure working environment which is free hazards. In order to make understand the employers about the OH and S importance and consequences of negligence, these right are set out in legislation. 2. Safe work Victoria is the occupation health and safety main represent of the Victorian work cover Authority (VWA). Their main responsibility is to improve work health and safety of worker’s by preventing work place injuries and carrying out OHS law across Victorian work places. 3. The Occupational health and safety act 2004 4. Establishing an effective hazard management strategy could significantly reduce work place injuries and illnesses. A workplace hazard is anything in the work environment that can possibly hurt individuals. Hazards can incorporate objects in the working environment, for example, faulty apparatus or hazardous chemicals. Some hazards can be a result of the way work is finished. For example, fatigue caused by the pace of work and faulty handling....
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...order to avoid the risks from taking place . It is something by law that is expected for all the workplace to carry out. This links in with the HSAWA as every workplace when opening up a business they need to follow the rules and regulation in order to keep the environment safe as well as the employees. When creating risk assessments it’s about producing a table of which identifies all the possible hazards that could take place in the workplace. Every workplace must produce a risk assessment and by creating this you are pointing out all the risk that could take place but also putting in place steps to prevent it from happening. The process of doing risk assessments is to identify hazards and state what they are but also analysing the hazard as to what risks are involved with that hazard and what harm it could bring. Finally, stating the steps that need to be taken in order to eliminate or to control the hazard from occurring. Doing a risk assessment is really important they form an essential part because doing a risk assessment is the key to a good occupation because they help they help to create awareness of the hazards and risks. The aim of having a risk assessment is the process of trying to remove hazards and remove the risk that it accompanies and adding precaution to stop the risks from taking place. The reason as to why a risk assessment is produced is to enable the employers to take safety measures in order to protect the staffs that work in that workplace. A risk assessment...
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...stresses are divided into the following categories; Biological, chemical physical, erganomic and psychological. According to British occupational hygiene society (BOHS), occupational hygiene is about the prevention of ill-health from work through recognizing evaluation and controlling the risk. Occupational hygiene has been involved historically with changing the perception of society about nature and extent of hazards in the workplace. Many occupational hygienists work day to day with industrial situations that require control or improvement to the workplace situation however larger social issues affecting whole industries have occurred in the past. E.g since 1900, asbestos exposures have affected the lives of ten thousand of people in the later part of the 2000s concern has been raised about the health effects of nanoparticles. Many of those issues have required the coordination over a number of years of a number of medical and Para professionals in detecting and than characterizing the nature of the issue, the risk to the work place and ultimately to society. This has involved occupational hygienists in research, collection of data and to develop suitable and satisfactory control methodologies. TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENIST Work activities vary between specialist areas and employers, but may include. * Under taking workplace surveys and evaluating situation in the workplace * Assessing risk to health arising from many different factors such as chemical...
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...protection equipment (how to wear, which equipment prevent which part of body). 3. Identifying hazards: - employer should inspect the workplace so that they could find out the hazards and take the appropriate action. 4. Worker should be informed to maintain 10 meters of distance from dangerous moving machines for example forklift. 5. Proper protection equipment should be of good quality so that workers can feel more safer while wearing equipment. Question 2 a) Types of Hazards as company is engaged in construction work. Physical Hazards * hazards such as lifting and pulling are sought of physical hazard which are common in construction sight. * Wet floors or slippery chemical on floor could lead to slip and fall. * Using handy tools like power tools etc. b) Angela must have studied about the workplace safety and there she may have learned or taught the correct or immediate action to take against any incident occurred at workplace. c) Angela can consult the external or internal source. External sources include websites containing information regarding safety example safeworkaustralia.com. She may consult with internal sources like safety officer or senior in charge at work place. d) Employer or the person who has been appointed to inspect the work place had the responsibility to conduct an identification of hazards before the job began. Question 3 a) I am currently working as a Assistant Manager in Red Rooster...
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...Construction workers are always surrounded by enormous of hazards in the work site. Many of these hazards are temporary or localized, and avoiding them is not a difficult task for workers. However, some of these hazards occur every day. Ultra-Violate radiation (UVR), which has wavelength between approximately 180 NM to 400 NM, is a continuous hazard that can be affects almost everyone working outdoors. Today Australia is considering overexposure to UVR is a public health issue because many outdoors worker including construction workers are exposed to the extreme UVR most of the day from first day of building the project until the last day. Also, UVR is strongly associated with serious diseases that significantly damage some parts of the workers?...
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...Implementing an Effective Risk Management Program The Guiding Principles of Risk Management (RM) A. Integrate RM into all phases of missions and operations. Effective RM requires that the process be integrated into all phases of mission or operational planning, preparation, execution, and recovery on a continuing basis. It is much more cost effective to plan up front during building construction and renovation to imbed safety, fire and environmental protection systems than to retro-fit after the fact. B. Make risk decisions at the appropriate level. As a decision-making tool, RM is only effective when the information is concentrated on the appropriate supervisory level for decision. The higher the risk, the higher the management level of who should make the decision to accept a risk or not. Often this will require the decision to apply resources, whether manpower, dollars or both, to mitigate risks to an acceptable level so the management decision-making level must be where the purse strings are controlled. C. Accept no unnecessary risk. Accept no level of risk unless the potential gain or benefit outweighs the potential loss. RM is a decision-making tool to assist the supervisor or individual in identifying, assessing, and controlling risks in order to make informed decisions that balance risk costs (potential losses) against mission benefits (potential gains). An unnecessary risk is one that if not taken, you can still accomplish the mission. For example...
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...that could be carried out at work – but which most people will do at home – changing a lightbulb. I have chosen this as it is an example of an activity that most people can relate to, wether we live in a house or a bungalow. The fluorescent light is on the ground floor of an office block. It is four o’clock on a December afternoon and must be changed. Assume there are no controls in place other than those listed below. The ladder has to be placed in one of the fire escape routes for the room. Hazards Use this box to list all the hazards identified in the activity. The tick box list includes some of the more common hazards that may be encountered when doing your risk assessment. It also provides space to allow you to add your own. In this example we have identified a number of hazards that could be present in this activity. The main ones are concerned with electricity cuts burns working at height working in the dark. These should be written in the hazards section of the form, you will see that we have identified some of the problems associated with those hazards. Those at risk All those exposed to the risk should be listed here. It is important to list everyone who could be harmed as all may influence how you may intend to control the risks. You may decide that you require different controls for others not carrying out those activities. Current Control Measures Use this box to list the current control measures that you have in place and any other controls you...
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...Objectives ………………………………………………………………………………………….…6 Deliverables …………………………………………………………………......................................................6 Outputs ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….…..6 Stakeholders ………………………………………………………………………………………………...…….6 Activities …….…………………………………………………………………………………………….………...7 Evaluation Plan ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……....8 Appendix A: Logic Model ………………..………………………………………………………………….…………...9 Appendix B: References……………………………………………………………………………………………...…10 Introduction & Background Purpose: This purpose of this project is to identify, assess and implement strategies in order to prevent potential workplace hazards from occurring at the North Alberta Pediatric Sleep Clinic situated within the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, AB by completing a Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control (HIAC) worksheet. The overall project is outlined in a Logic Model (Appendix A). Overview of Clinic: The North Alberta Pediatric Sleep Clinic, also referred to as the “Sleep Lab”, is an outpatient clinic which cares for children aged 0-18 with sleep disorders. Examples of sleep disorders the clinic handles are sleep walking, night...
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...Managing Business Activities Health and Safety in the Workplace Introduction Health and safety at work are important for several reasons. a) Employees should be protected from pain and suffering. (Obvious - we hope!) b) An employer has legal obligations for the health and safety of employees. c) Accidents and illness cost the employer money. d) The company's image in the market-place (to which it sells goods and services, and from which it recruits labour and buys in other resources) will suffer if its health and safety record is bad. This lesson looks at the law and best practice relating to health and safety at work. Lesson objectives After completing this chapter you should be able to: a) Carry out risk assessments as required by legislation, regulation and organisational requirements ensuring appropriate action is taken. b) Demonstrate that health and safety regulations and legislation applicable in specific work situations are correctly and effectively applied. c) Carry out a systematic review of organisational health and safety policies and procedures in order to ensure they are effective and compliant. d) Carry out practical application of health and safety policies and procedures in the workplace. 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION In 1972, a Royal Commission on Safety and Health at Work reported that unnecessarily large numbers of days were being lost each year through industrial accidents, injuries and diseases, because of...
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...Potential Hazards in Health and Social Care Settings While working at Langdale view a residential care home, I came across many potential hazards. A hazard is anything that can cause harm to an individual. Hazards affect all the people working in that care setting including, staff, visitors and individuals, there are a lot of hazards which can be found in and around every health and social care setting. Hazards: Hazards in the physical environment The physical environment is the surroundings around you, a potential hazard that can occur from the physical environment within a health and social care environment such as a residential care home, can be poor ventilation because it is important that the air in a room is breathable an does not cause any breathing problems or spread infections. This is a health hazard because it can cause a person to become ill due to airborne infections. To reduce this risk, the ventilation should be checked regularly and windows should be opened from time to time. Lighting in rooms of a residential care home is very important as poor lightning is a hazard especially for the elderly as some may have poor vision and if there is no emergency lightning there is a risk that an elderly resident will trip over something because they cannot see properly whereas if the lighting in the room is too bright, it can cause sight problems such as weak eyesight or watery eyes when in bright light. Hazards from equipment Hazards from equipment can include anything...
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...of Occupational Health and Safety Management As known to all, there are always such-and-such potential hazards in people's work activities or work environment, which may cause property damage, be harmful to environment, affect human’s health and even cause injury or accident. People call the possibility of one or some danger causing incidents and its possible consequence as risk. The object of contemporary occupational health and safety management is the occupational safety and health risks. These hazards may be chemical, physical, biological, related to human work efficiency and others, the factors of which include personal factor, equipment factor, environmental factor and organizational and management factor. Occupational health and safety is a series of measures and the corresponding activities adloyee’s income, prevent employee from injury and create less stress from employee, thus employee may obtain more physical and psychological satisfaction. Occupational health and safety management includes accident investigation and recording, work system designing, examination of workplace, training, complete incentives, supervision and employee aids plan. What is a hazard? The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 defines a hazard as ‘anything (including work practices or procedures) that has the potential to harm the health or safety of a person’. Hazards can be grouped into five broad areas: o physical eg. noise, radiation, light, vibration o chemical...
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...1. (4)Implemen 6)Implementing and monitoring organisational procedures and legal requirements for identifying hazards and assessing and controlling risks • Identify the potential hazards in the organisation in accordance with WHS policies and procedures According to WHS policies and procedure the potential harzards in the company are: 1. keyboard work for long periods without a break 2. activities that involve lifting or carrying materials or equipment 3. trip hazards like trailing cords, frayed carpet or boxes in walkways 4. using a hazardous substance for cleaning 5. noise generated by machinery 6. working with sharp instruments, e.g. broken can for recycle them 7. working with or close to machinery with moving parts • Explain the steps that the organisation would take for the hazards and risks that have been reported 1) To identify the hazard- Involves finding things and...
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...contractors had no first aid supplies and none were trained in first aid, David was then taken to the emergency department of the local hospital to receive treatment. He has been given 2 weeks off work and is expected to be on light duties for a further 2 weeks when he has clearance to return to work. Question 1 For this task in a classroom situation your trainer...
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...| Assignment #8 Participants Manual/Trainee Manual | HN2150 – Managing Performance through Training and Development | | This assignment provides the Participants/Trainee Manual that NL Safety Co. will utilize in the delivery of training to Summit Appliances Inc. | Health & Safety Training Summit Appliances Inc. Developed & Administered by NL Safety Co. www.nlsafety.ca TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME3 EXPLANATION OF TRAINING SESSION4 LEARNING OBJECTIVES5 AGENDA6 LEARNING NOTES7 APPENDICES19 BIBLIOGRAPHY30 Welcome We would like to welcome you to our training session on behalf of NL Safety Co. and we would like to thank the management and executives of Summit Appliance Inc. in recognition of the time and resources set aside to facilitate this very important training session. I would like to call upon Mr. Sid Lawrence, your CEO, to say a few words on behalf of Summitt Appliances Inc. Housekeeping Items Identification and review of housekeeping rules/points as follows; * Sign-in sheet is provided at the front of the class. Ensure you have filled out the information and signed-in. Please print clearly as this information will be used to complete your course certificates at the end of the day; * the location of washrooms just outside and to the left of the classroom entrance; * cell phones are to be turned off or placed on silent during training sessions; * Fire exit is to the right of the classroom...
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