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05 - Topic 4 - Hazard Identification

This document discusses workplace hazards and safety. It defines a hazard as anything with potential to cause harm. Workplace hazards are classified as mechanical, electrical, chemical, biological, ergonomic or psychological. Common workplace accidents include slips, trips, falls, burns, repetitive strain injuries and cuts. The document recommends establishing a hazard reporting system to identify hazards, perform regular assessments, explain hazards to employees, and ensure hazards are eliminated, controlled or safety procedures and PPE are implemented. Safety audits should identify hazards, ensure regulatory compliance, evaluate safety awareness and performance. Hazard identification processes should define the scope, need and frequency of audits. Accident investigations are important to prevent recurrences and find root causes.

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05 - Topic 4 - Hazard Identification

This document discusses workplace hazards and safety. It defines a hazard as anything with potential to cause harm. Workplace hazards are classified as mechanical, electrical, chemical, biological, ergonomic or psychological. Common workplace accidents include slips, trips, falls, burns, repetitive strain injuries and cuts. The document recommends establishing a hazard reporting system to identify hazards, perform regular assessments, explain hazards to employees, and ensure hazards are eliminated, controlled or safety procedures and PPE are implemented. Safety audits should identify hazards, ensure regulatory compliance, evaluate safety awareness and performance. Hazard identification processes should define the scope, need and frequency of audits. Accident investigations are important to prevent recurrences and find root causes.

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Hazard Identification

Topic 4

Hazard Defination
Hazard is a source or situation with
potential to harm in terms of human injury
or ill health, damage to property, damage to
environment or a combination of this

Classification of Workplace
Hazards

Mechanical
Electrical
Chemical
Biological
Ergonomics
Psychological

Source and Harms

Categories od Workplace Accident

Slips and Trips


Falls
Burns
Back or Neck or Repetetive Strain Injury
Cut
Hearing loss

Hazard Reporting System


Suggest

Identify hazard
Perform regular
assessment

Identify

Explain

Design Comply to standard


Engineering Installation in Place
Safe work procedure
PPE is used

Eliminating Control Hazard at


design stage
Intergrade safety into
engineering installation
Establish safe working
procedure

Safety and Health Audit


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To Identify hazard
To ensure compliance with regulation
To ensure compliance with Law
To determine SH condition at workplace
To determine SH condition for equipment
To determine SH condition for Process
To evaluate SV awareness
To evaluate Employee performance vs SH
To evaluate SH issues and problem
To determine the effectiveness of hazard control at new
installation

Hazard Identification Process

When?
Time&
Frequency

What?
Scope?

Why?
Define
need/type
for audit

Safety and Health Audit


Interviewi
ng

Observatio
n

Sampling

Audit
Inspection

Reviewing

Accident Investigation
Accident is an unexpected or unplanned event in a sequence
of events that occur through a combination of causes that
result to:
Physical Injury
Property damage
Both

Purpose of accident investigation

Prevent reaccurance
Continious measure SH performance
Find ways to avoid reaccurance
Find method to determine root cause
Provide structured method to investigate

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