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Health & Safety Management for Quarries Topic One

Health & Safety Management for Quarries Topic One. An Introduction to Health & Safety in Industry. Objectives of this Section. · To define the basic terminology of the subject area. · To outline the reasons for a safe and healthy workplace.

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Health & Safety Management for Quarries Topic One

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  1. Health & Safety Management for QuarriesTopic One An Introduction to Health & Safety in Industry

  2. Objectives of this Section ·To define the basic terminology of the subject area. · To outline the reasons for a safe and healthy workplace. · To show the accident trends in the UK industry as a whole and the quarrying industry in particular.

  3. Accident – Undesired circumstances which give rise to ill-health or injury, damage to property, plant, products or the environment; production losses or increased liabilities.

  4. Incident – Undesired circumstances and ‘near misses’ which could cause accidents.

  5. Ill health – Acute and chronic ill health caused by physical, chemical or biological agents as well as adverse effects on mental health.

  6. Hazard – The potential to cause harm. Harm including ill health and injury, damage to property, plant, products or the environment, production losses or increased liabilities.

  7. Risk Means the likelihood that a specified undesired event will occur due to the realisation of a hazard by, or during work activities or by the products and services created by work activities.

  8. Hazards/Danger Observable or predicted from knowledge  Risk Not directly observable - probability of harm to system elements being realised from exposure to hazards and danger.  Harm Damage to system elements - long or short term  Accidents  Injuries Ill-Health Damage

  9. Safety The ‘control of accidental loss’.

  10. Reasons for Preventing Accidents There are three main reasons for preventing accidents and ill-health.

  11. Moral / Humane No-one comes to work to be injured or killed

  12. Cost Accidents cost organisations money. e.g. Piper Alpha – 167 people killed – estimated to have cost over £2 billion including £746 million in direct insurance payouts.

  13. Legislation Organisations have a legal obligation. In the UK – Health & Safety at Work Act, 1974 and associated Regulations e.g. Management of Health & Safety at Work Regs 1999 Quarry Regulations, 1999

  14. Accident Costs ‘Iceberg’

  15. Injuries in the UK (1989/90 – 1998/99) • Notes: • (a) Figures from 1996/97 are higher than previous years because of changes in accident reporting brought about by RIDDOR’95 (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation). Hence these figures cannot be compared with those of earlier years. • (b) This figure includes the 95 persons killed in the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster.

  16. Quarry Industry Construction All Industry Fatal 20 6 1 Major 400 382 128 +3 Day 1,400 966 589 Comparison of Accident Rate (1997/98)

  17. Accidents in the Quarrying Industry (1994-99)

  18. Types of Fatal Accident (1983-1993)

  19. Types of Fatal Accidents (1983-93)

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