It stands for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality. This acronym is most commonly used regarding workplace SHEQ management. A SHEQ manager is the individual in charge of occupational health and safety, environment and quality assurance. SHEQ applies several disciplines for continuous improvement of Occupational Health and Safety (ISO 45001), Environmental (ISO 14001) and Quality (ISO 9001) factors that impact your organization.
2. What are the main objectives of H.S.E. Policy?
It is the Company's Policy to provide healthy and safe working conditions, promote and enhance safety as a work culture, prevent loss or human injury and avoid any adverse impact on the environment (marine or otherwise) including property. Health and safety objectives are useful to create a health and safety program that aims at reducing harm to your employees.
3. What does the role of PPE in workplace safety?
PPE is equipment that protects workers against health or safety risks on the job and reduces employee exposure to hazards. The dangers can be anything from slippery wet floors to loose falling debris. PPE includes items such as protective helmets, eye protection, high-visibility clothing, safety footwear, safety harnesses and, sometimes, respiratory protective equipment.
4. What is job safety analysis?
A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure which helps integrate accepted safety and health principles and practices into a particular task or job operation. In a JSA, each basic step of the job is to identify potential hazards and to recommend the safest way to do the job. Other terms used to describe this procedure are job hazard analysis (JHA) and job hazard breakdown. 5. What is hazard? A hazard is a source or a situation with the potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill-health, damage to property, damage to the environment, or a combination of these. An unwanted event is a situation or condition where there is a loss of control of the hazard that leads to harm.
6. What is risk assessment?
A risk assessment is a thorough look at your workplace to identify those things, situations, processes, etc. that may cause harm, particularly to people. After identification is made, you analyze and evaluate how likely and severe the risk is. When this determination is made, you can next, decide what measures should be in place to effectively eliminate or control the harm from happening.
7. How can you improve your workplace safety?
As a leader, it is your responsibility to implement initiatives to identify hazards in the workplace, put measures in place to minimise them and to drive workplace safety. Your health and safety program should be built upon key strategies, which work together to reduce the risk of preventable accidents, injuries and fatalities.
8. What is the vision of HSSE?
The HSSE's vision it to pursue HSSE excellence, ensuring no harm to people, assets and the environment, wherever we operate. The KPC HSSE Management System has been upgraded recently as unified Management System across oil sector. The philosophy of the new standards is now towards a more 'Strategic Management Model Approach'.
9. What causes ocean pollution?
Sewage or polluting substances flow through sewage, rivers, or drainages directly into the ocean. Industrial and agricultural waste which directly discharged into the oceans, resulting in ocean pollution. Land runoff which occurs when water infiltrates the soil to its maximum extent, and the excess water from rain, flooding or melting flows over the land and into the ocean. Ship pollution which its most devastating effect of which is oil spills. Ocean mining in the deep sea is yet another source of ocean pollution. Littering, these objects can be anything from natural things like dust and sand to man-made objects such as debris and trash. 10. Where do plastics in the ocean come from? The main sources of marine plastic are land-based, from urban and storm runoff, sewer overflows, beach visitors, inadequate waste disposal and management, industrial activities, construction and illegal dumping. Ocean-based plastic originates mainly from the fishing industry, nautical activities and aquaculture. Plastic gets into the ocean in many ways. It is dumped directly or is blown in by the wind. It comes from ships and lost fishing gear. It is also carried by rivers.