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The document outlines the importance of health, safety, and environment in industrial settings, emphasizing the need to prevent accidents for moral, financial, and legal reasons. It discusses safety systems, the 4 E's of safety (Engineering, Education, Enlistment, Encouragement), and the causes and costs of industrial accidents. Additionally, it highlights the roles of management and the necessity of addressing both unsafe conditions and acts to ensure workplace safety.

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Lec02 - Asjad

The document outlines the importance of health, safety, and environment in industrial settings, emphasizing the need to prevent accidents for moral, financial, and legal reasons. It discusses safety systems, the 4 E's of safety (Engineering, Education, Enlistment, Encouragement), and the causes and costs of industrial accidents. Additionally, it highlights the roles of management and the necessity of addressing both unsafe conditions and acts to ensure workplace safety.

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Lecture 02

HEALTH, SAFETY
Course Outline
&
ENVIRONMENT
DR ASJAD SHAHZAD

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT


NUST COLLEGE OF E&ME
SAFETY

The ‘control of accidental loss’


REASONS FOR PREVENTING
ACCIDENTS
There are three main reasons for
preventing accidents and ill-health.
MORAL / HUMANE

No-one comes to work to be injured or


killed
COST

Accidents cost organisations money

e.g. Piper Alpha – 167 people killed –


estimated to have cost over £2 billion
LEGISLATION

Organisations have a legal obligation


WHY ARE SAFETY SYSTEMS?
• The function of a safety system is to monitor
and control conditions on a machine or a
process that are hazardous.
• Potential risks for machine operators
• Potential damage to machine/goods
• Potential damage to environment
• Systems and components must be designed
such that they are safe under normal
conditions.
• Faults, failures and external influences must
not result in an undetected loss of safety.
WHY SAFETY IS IMPORTANT?
• Injury/death to the workers or damage to
asset
• Responsible to society & answerable to the
laws of the country
• Lose of the business opportunity
• Business continuity is in question
• Employees and contractors will lose the
morale
• Industrial harmony will be poor
• Brand of the product/name of the
4 E’S OF SAFETY
Engineering
• Safety at the design, equipment, installation
stage
Education
• Education of employees at the safe places
Enlistment
• It concerns the attitude of the employees and
management towards the programmed and its
purpose. This necessary arose the interest of
employees in accident prevention and safety
consciousness.
Encouragement
• To enforce adherence to safe rules and
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
• It is primarily management activity which is
concerned with:
• Reducing
• Controlling
• Eliminating hazards from industries or
industrial units
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
• Measures or techniques implemented to
reduce the risk of injury, loss and danger
to persons, property or the environment, in
any facility or place involving the
manufacturing, producing and processing
of goods or merchandise.
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Psychological theories –
• Covers all aspects of behaviour i.e.
thoughts, feelings & motivations.
• Structural theories –
• Due weightage to the socio-economic,
political & technological aspects of
organization rather the individual attitude &
behaviour.
• Psycho-sociological theories –
• Make an effort to link both theoretical
approaches
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT
• An unplanned and uncontrolled event in
which the action or reaction of an object,
substance, person or radiation results in
personal injury or the probability thereof.
• Industrial accidents refer to any accident that
occurs at industrial site.
COST & CONSEQUENCES
OF INDUSTRIAL
ACCIDENT
• Total cost of accident = Direct cost + Indirect
cost and hidden cost of accident
• Direct cost of accident: medical bills, hospital
& rehabilitation expenses, worker’s
compensation, higher insurance premiums
or loss of insurability.
• Indirect & hidden cost: usually uninsured,
disruption to normal work procedures etc.
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS-CAUSES
• Unsafe conditions: insufficient workplace
lighting, excessive noise, slippery or unsafe
flooring, extreme temperature exposure,
inadequate protection when working with
machinery or hazardous materials, unstable
structures, electrical problems, machine
malfunction or failure and so on.
UNSAFE ACTS

• The cause of industrial accidents that


pertains to unsafe acts may include actions
or failures to act which results in injury.
EXTERNAL & INTERNAL CAUSES
• External:
• Fires, chemical spills, toxic gaps, emission or
radiations. Due to org errors, human
factors, abnormal operations conditions,
natural forces, software failure etc.
• Internal
• Technical, personal, psychological, non-
observance of safety rules, inability of the
workers, liberal attitude
PREVENTION

• Safety of the industrial site


• Focus on the equipment frequently used
in industrial area
• Focus on employers
• Unsafe conditions
• Unsafe acts
• Focus on supervisors/foremen
DISCUSSION

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