Safety Hazards and Safety Procedures

Managing Safety and Health

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 Objective
Identify safety hazards and apply safety procedures.

Content:

- A Safety and Health System at workplace.

- What makes a successful system?
- Safety Management System Steps.

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 A Safety and Health System at
workplace

The employer is in charge of keeping a

safe and healthy workplace.

It is important to consider and keep in

mind that a safety program could help
workers at improving their work and
responsibilities.

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 A Safety and Health System at
workplace

A plan describes what workers in a company must do to avoid or prevent injuries

and illnesses at workplace.

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 A Safety and Health System at
workplace

-If you have a small business in a low-risk

industry, you may simply listen to your
employees’s concerns and responding to
them.

-If you have a large business in a

hazardous industry, you may have
notebooks with written policies and
procedures and definetely a full-time
safety director.

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 What makes a successful system?

• Managers commited to making the

program work.
• Employees involved in the program.
• A system to indentify and control
hazards.
• Compliance with OSHA regulations.
• Training on safe work practices.
• Mutual respect, caring and open
communication.
• Continuous improvement.

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 Safety Management System Steps

1.- Make a commitment

2.- Involve employees
3.- Identify and control hazards
4.- Comply with regulations
5.- Train Employees
6.- Support a culture of safety
7.- Continually improve your system

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 1.- Make a commitment
Do your best into your commitment to
safety and health at workplace.

• Write a policy that emphasizes the

importance you place on workplace
safety and health.
• Begin meetings with a safety topic.
• Tell employees they will be expected to
follow safe work practises.
• Answer all reports of unhealthy
conditions at workplace.
• Find out why injuries or illnesses occur.

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 2.- Involve employees

Safety and Health is everyone’s

responsibility.

• Set an active workplace safety and

health safety rules.
• Make daily safety inspections.
• Keep employees informed about safety
inspections, injury and illness statistics
and other safety related issues.
• Value employee input and feedback.

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 3.- Identify and Control Hazards
Follow the next steps to identify and
understand safety and health hazards:

-Review records of accidents, injuries, etc.

-Review OSHA logs, first aid logs, workers’s
compensation reports, complaints and close
calls.
-Look for trends or popular factors in kinds of
injuries, location, equipment, etc.
-Survey employees.
-Review inspection reports.
-Learn the OSHA regulations related to your
workplace.
-Inspect your workplace for safety and health
problems.
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 How to Control Hazards…

Once you identify hazards, you have to decide

how to control them.

-Prioritize the hazards you found.

-Make a plan for correcting the hazards.
-Correct the hazards
-Evaluate the changes to make sure the
problem has been corrected and there is no
another hazard.

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 4.- Comply with regulations

Employees must understand the

workplace regulations and comply with
them.

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 5.- Train Employees

Train employees about hazards they may

be exposed at workplace and guide them
on how to protect themselves. Provide
employees about :

-General safety orientation.

-Specific training on the hazards of their
jobs and how to performance their jobs in
a safe way.
-Retraining.

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 6.- Support a culture of Safety

Employees consider safety as a value.

They care about themselves and respect
each other.

-Set effective two-way communication.

-Make sure management goes beyond
the regulations.
-Support a work environment that
promotes creativity, well-being and trust.
-Celebrate success.

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 7.- Continually improve your system

-Analyze your program’s strengths and

weaknesses.
-Investigate and analyze accidents,
injuries, etc as they happen.
-Conduct frequent inspections of specific
equipment and processes.
-Document all safety efforts.
-Ensure hazar correction systems are in
the right place and working.
-Evaluate effectiveness of training.
-Listen to your staff.

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 Consider all that is involved in the Safety
Management System Steps.
Good luck!

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