Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Importance of Safety Engineering: Slide 1
Importance of Safety Engineering: Slide 1
Engineering
Slide 1
Objectives
Slide 2
Global OSH Situationer
Slide 3
Global OSH Situationer
4 every minute
Slide 5
With a highly mobile population of workers
and different contractors working on
dangerous construction sites at the same
time, CONSTRUCTION continues to be a
major cause of death and disabilities.
Slide 6
OSHC Study (1998)
Slide 7
Leading Causes of Accidents
Slide 8
Severity of Injury
Slide 9
Type of Trade
Slide 10
Month of Occurrence
Slide 11
Time of Accident
Slide 12
Why the need for SAFETY?
Family
Regulatory Agencies
Employee Health
SAFETY
Accident Costs
Production
Corporate
Image Quality
Slide 13
I
C
Direct Costs
E
B
E
R
G
T
H
E
O
R Indirect Costs
Slide 14 Y
Direct Cost of Accidents
Medical Expenses
Equipment Damage
Wasted Raw Materials
Insurance Premiums
Litigation Expenses
Slide 15
Indirect Cost of Accidents
1 Injured Workers
Lesser productivity due to interruption on day of
injury
Loss in efficiency
Loss of income
2 Other Employees
loss productivity due to:
work stoppage out of curiosity
when assisting injured worker
due to inspection
Loss in efficiency out of sympathy to the injured
Additional cost due to completion of added work
Slide 16
Indirect Cost of Accidents
3. Supervisors
lost productivity :
when assisting the injured
due to accident investigation
in preparing reports
during inspection
4. Replacement worker
hiring or training
5. Equipment
downtime
Slide 17
Humane Aspects
Physical pain/discomfort
Psychological problems
Slide 18
Mathematics of Accidents
Slide 19