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Occupational Hazards And How Ton Control Them

Occupational Hazard affects the life of the person, his/her family or people nearby to the person no just physically, but mentally, emotionally and economically as well. For More Information visit @ https://www.occucare.co.in/blog/occupational-hazards-and-how-to-control-them<br>

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Occupational Hazards And How Ton Control Them

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  1. Occucare Health Software Occupational Hazards And How Ton Control Them?

  2.  There are many Occupational hazards in the work areas and these hazards have been effecting the health and safety of the person. It can either lead to some of the chronic disease which sometime may be irreversible or sometimes it may lead to a major injury which may make a person disabled for life. And in both cases the life cases the life of the person , his/ her family or nearby of the person are effected no just physically , but emotionally and economically as well.  What is Occupational Hazard?  in layman’s terms Occupational hazard is something has a potential to harm at work or during the job. According to OHSAS, 18001:1999, Occupational hazards is a source or situations at workplace with a potential for harm in terms of human injury or illness , damage to property , damage to the environment , or a combination of these. 2

  3.  How to identify Occupational Hazard?  Since Occupational Hazard may harm in terms of human injury or illness , damage the property and / or environment, it is very important for individuals to acknowledge the hazards which are there, not just by health, safety & environment (HSE) teams but as very employee as well and assist HSE team to make the workplace safe and healthy place to work at.  Hazards are essentially a problem / risk, and if one doesn’t acknowledge the problem/ risk there will be no action towards solutions / risk mitigations.  To identify Occupational Hazards, we need to have different perspective and we can also categorize Hazards according to these perspectives , in the following way - 3

  4.  Obvious Hazard : perceptible by sense. Some of the example can be –unguarded machines , building defects , faulty equipment & others.  Concealed Hazard : not perceptible by senses. Some of the examples can be – toxic vapors , high frequency noise , electricity & others.  Developing Hazard : these develop over a period of time and can’t be recognized immediately. Some of the examples can be old tyre of lifting equipment , payload trucks, frayed steel cables & others.  Temporary Hazard : these are not always present or may not also come in future , but can be there for a limited period of time. Some of the examples can be machine overloading , defect in the machines & others. 4

  5. Other Hazards Categorizing  Machinal Hazards  Electrical Hazards  Radiation Hazards  Substances Hazards  Fire and explosion Hazards  Toxic release Hazards  Natural calamities hazards 5

  6. What Are The General Control Measures To Minimize The Risks Of Hazards 1. Elimination : Best way to control the hazards is by eliminating the hazards. 2. Substitution : if a Hazards or work process cannot be completely eliminated , then try substitution , either for process or the material which may cause hazards. 3. Engineering Controls – these can be categorized into the following A. Enclosure - Enclose the work process where hazard can’t be eliminated or substitute to minimize the risks for the workers. B. isolation – move the work process where there is minimal density of workers to reduce the no. of workers exposed to hazards c. ventilation – helps to prevent environment to be extreme , and help the to diffuse the hazards in air. 6

  7. 4. Administrative controls : if the previous method don’t work, administrative controls are used to limit the exposure the hazards by limiting the working hours for the workers in required work processes. 5. Personal Protective Equipment : These should be the last resort to fight the Hazards as use of PPEs may give produce other Hazards and sometimes may lead to worker’s inefficiency. 7

  8. IS CREATING THE HAZARDS FREE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES JUST THE ROLE OF THE EMPLOYEES AND THE MANAGEMENT?  The management is continuously monitoring knows what are the Hazards at their workplace, they analyze the hazards and deploy the proper control measures. And this cycle continues.  But what if workers/employees are not following the instructions? The entire effort of deploying control measures goes down the hill an increase the risk of hazards for his/her colleagues as well. Hence it is very important for each and every employee and workers to work towards creating Hazard free work environment, and assist the work of HSE team to ensure your health & safety. This will also increase the efficiency of the workforce.  Can the stakeholders outside the organizations help? Yes definitely, they should also follow the instructions given to them while visiting the premises. Apart from that vendors who are providing raw material and machineries for the workplace should make sure that the raw materials be package in a good material to reduce the risk of exposure. 8

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