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Practice Occupational Health and Safety Procedures

Hazards refer to potential sources of harm, while risks refer to the probability that harm may occur from exposure to a hazard. It is important to identify workplace hazards and risks through a risk assessment process to determine how to eliminate or control them. This helps prevent injuries, accidents, and adverse health effects for workers.

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Practice Occupational Health and Safety Procedures

Hazards refer to potential sources of harm, while risks refer to the probability that harm may occur from exposure to a hazard. It is important to identify workplace hazards and risks through a risk assessment process to determine how to eliminate or control them. This helps prevent injuries, accidents, and adverse health effects for workers.

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PRACTICE OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH AND SAFETY


PROCEDURES
Identify hazards and
risks
WHAT IS HAZARD?
• A hazard is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health
effects on something or someone.

• Basically, a hazard is the potential for harm or an adverse effect (for


example, to people as health effects, to organizations as property or
equipment losses, or to the environment)
What are examples of a hazard?
• Workplace hazards can come from a wide range of sources. General examples
include any substance, material, process, practice, etc. that has the ability to
cause harm or adverse health effect to a person or property. See Table 1.

Workplace Hazard Example of Hazard Example of Harm Caused


hing Knife Cut
Substance Benzene Leukemia
Source of Energy Electricity Shock, electrocution
Condition Wet floor Slips, falls
Process Welding Metal fume fever
Practice Hard rock mining Silicosis
• Workplace hazards also include practices or conditions that
release uncontrolled energy like:
• an object that could fall from a height (potential or gravitational
energy),
• a run-away chemical reaction (chemical energy),
• the release of compressed gas or steam (pressure; high
temperature),
• entanglement of hair or clothing in rotating equipment (kinetic
energy), or
• contact with electrodes of a battery or capacitor (electrical energy).
What is risk?
• Risk is the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or
experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard. It may also
apply to situations with property or equipment loss, or harmful
effects on the environment.
• These risks are expressed as a probability or likelihood of developing a
disease or getting injured, whereas hazard refers to the agent
responsible
Factors that influence the degree or likelihood of risk are:

• the nature of the exposure: how much a person is exposed to a


hazardous thing or condition (e.g., several times a day or once a year),
• how the person is exposed (e.g., breathing in a vapour, skin contact),
and
• the severity of the effect. For example, one substance may cause skin
cancer, while another may cause skin irritation. Cancer is a much
more serious effect than irritation.
What is a risk assessment?
Risk assessment is the process where you:
• Identify hazards and risk factors that have the potential to cause harm
(hazard identification).
• Analyze and evaluate the risk associated with that hazard (risk
analysis, and risk evaluation).
• Determine appropriate ways to eliminate the hazard, or control the
risk when the hazard cannot be eliminated (risk control).
Different hazard signs
Activity: identify the risk may encounter with the
following hazards.
HAZARD RISK

OPEN LIVE WIRES

WORKING WITHOUT USING PPE

DRIVING WHILE TEXTNG

SMOKE CIGARETTES

USING SHARP KNIVES


• How can risk and hazard be prevented?

• Why do we need to identify hazards and risks?

• How do you evaluate risks and hazards?


Direction: Write your answer on a sheet of paper
• How can risk and hazard be prevented in the workplace?

• Why should we need to avoid hazards and risks in the workplace or at


home?

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