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Learning Objectives:
At the end of this INFORMATION SHEET, the students/trainees must be able to:
Classify the OSH safety regulations and Hazards control in industry standards.
Recognized the important of safety in the workplace.
Establish safety prevention and control.
Occupational Safety and Health Standards
Occupational Safety and Health Standards
-It was formulated in 1978 in compliance with the constitutional mandate to safeguard the worker’s social and economic well-being as well as his physical safety and health. Adopted through the tested democratic machinery of tripartism, the 1978 Standards is considered as a landmark in Philippine labor and social legislation.
- A cross-boundary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
-As secondary effect, may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of public who are impacted by the workplace environment.
-Is a cross disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goals of occupational safety and health programs include fostering a safe and healthy work environment.
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What is Safety?
What is Safety?
-it state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agents under defined conditions, usually that will affect the health of an individual or group.
Prevention and Control
Prevention and Control
- Effective controls protect workers from workplace hazards; help avoid injuries, illnesses, and incidents; minimize or eliminate safety and health risks; and help employers provide workers with safe and healthful working conditions. The processes described in this section will help employers prevent and control hazards identified in the previous section.
- To effectively control and prevent hazards, employers should:
- Involve workers, who often have the best understanding of the conditions that create hazards and insights into how they can be controlled.
- Identify and evaluate options for controlling hazards, using a "hierarchy of controls."
- Use a hazard control plan to guide the selection and implementation of controls, and implement controls according to the plan.
- Develop plans with measures to protect workers during emergencies and no routine activities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls to determine whether they continue to provide protection, or whether different controls may be more effective. Review new technologies for their potential to be more protective, more reliable, or less costly.
Why Occupational safety?
Why Occupational safety?
a. Moral – an employee need not be subjected to risk injury at work, nor did others associate with the work environment.
b. Economic - poor occupational safety and health performance results in:
huge costs to the State (e.g. through social security payments to the incapacitated, costs for medical treatment, and the loss of the "employability" of the worker especially in countries where the welfare of the citizens are taken as paramount to national development).
Costs to employer in the event of an incident at work through payments e.g. legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production, lost goodwill from the workforce, from customers and from the wider community).
c. Legal - without extra "encouragement" of potential regulatory action or litigation, many organizations would not act upon their implied moral obligations.
OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment.
Why Safety is so importance in the workplace?
Why Safety is so importance in the workplace?
It seeks to secure the health, safety and welfare of all persons at work and other persons who may be at risk as a result of activities at work.
It provides that employers maintain plants and systems that are reasonably and practicably safe, they ensure safe methods of handling, storing and transporting materials and also provide adequate induction, training and supervision in those methods.
It provides that employers must keep revised, written safety policy statement showing the arrangement and organization of their safety procedures.
It provides that employees are also required by law to cooperate in meeting statutory requirements and must not interfere with or misuse materials provided to secure health safety and welfare.
It ensures that Commission set up by government are empowered to make health and safety regulations or codes of practice for most industries and failure to observe any provision of practice may render an employer liable to prosecution.
Ensures regular compliance to standards and wide ranging powers are given to inspectors to ensure compliance with the Act.
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