MIDTERM WORKSHOP

What is Safety and Health at work?

R// is an area that is concerned with protecting the safety, health and wellbeing
of people who work

Why are you standing SHW?

R// l am estudying this´career becauce l like to contribute in the companies in

the integral care of the workers´health, minimizing the risks that arise

How do you see yourself in a few years?

R// in the future l see myself in my own workplace health and safety consulting
company

Glossary (20 words)

1. Hazard: is anything chat has the potencial to cause harm. Hazards

can affect people, property, processes; they can cause accidents and ill-
heath, loss of output, dagame to machinery, etc.

2. Risk: It is a source or situation with potential for harm in terms of injury

or illness, damage to property, the work environment, or a combination of
 these.

3. work accident: It is any sudden event that occurs due to or on the

occasion of work and that causes an organic injury, a functional
disturbance, a disability or death in the worker. Also, it is one that occurs
during the execution of the employer's orders, or during the execution of
a work under his authority, even outside the place and working hours.

4 Threat: Technical, natural or social factors capable of disturbing the

physical integrity of people or causing damage to the environment.
5 Absenteeism: days lost from work. Even the hours of absence from
work added together are also considered absenteeism.

6 Diagnosis: Qualification of a disease according to symptoms

7 Emergency: Situation that implies a state of partial or total

disturbance caused by the occurrence of an unwanted event.
8 personal protection equipment: It is an element designed to
prevent people who are exposed to a particular danger from coming
into direct contact with it. Protective equipment prevents contact with
the hazard but does not eliminate

9 Ergonomics: studies the wide variety of problems that arise in the

mutual adaptation between man and machine and their environment,
seeking productive efficiency and well-being of work.

10 Evacuation: Action aimed at establishing a barrier or distance

between a source of risk and threatened people, up to and through
places of lower risk.
11 Risk factor: It is understood under this denomination, the existence
of elements, phenomena, conditions, circumstances and human
actions, which contain a potential capacity to cause injury or damage
and whose probability of occurrence depends on the elimination or
control of the aggressive element.

12 Industrial hygiene: It comprises the set of activities aimed at the

identification, evaluation and control of the agents and factors of the
work environment that may affect the health of workers.

13 Temporary disability: It is when due to an accident, the worker

must be absent from work for a period of time greater than one day.
During the duration of the disability, the member received a subsidy
equivalent to 100% of their base contribution salary
14 Law: Mandatory norm issued by the legislative power - Congress of
the Republic .

15 Work Medicine: It is the set of medical and paramedical activities

aimed at promoting and improving the health of the worker,
evaluating their work capacity and placing them in a workplace
according to their psychobiological conditions.
16 Morbidity: It refers to the percentage of patients in relation to a
specific population.

17 Occupations or trades: Codes assigned in the Professional Loss

System.

18 Active breaks: It consists of the use of various techniques in short

periods (Maximum 10 minutes), during the working day in order to
activate breathing, blood circulation and body energy to prevent
psychophysical disorders caused by physical and mental fatigue and
enhance functioning brain increasing productivity and work
performance.
19 Security policy: An important requirement within a quality and
safety management system is compliance with basic legislation on
occupational health and a commitment to continuously improve the
health and safety conditions of workers.

20 Compensation: Single value paid to the worker who, as a result of

an AT or an EL, reduces his work capacity by a percentage greater
than 5% and less than 50%