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• The participants in this training are expected to define occupational health and safety, interpret the OSH law of the Philippines, narrate the significance of safety management system, apply the OHS guidelines in the tourism/hospitality workplace, and assess the occupational health and safety practices of tourism/hospitality establishments.
• The presentation outline for this training includes an introduction to occupational health and safety, occupational health and safety law in the Philippines, occupational health and safety management system, workplace hazards and their controls, fundamentals of safety management, definition of terms, and an overview of safety management principles.
• Safety is freedom from accident and the control of hazards to attain an acceptable level of risk.
• An incident is an event that may or may not result to loss.
• An accident is unplanned, undesired event, not necessarily injurious or damaging, that disrupts the completion of an activity.
• A hazard is any potential or existing condition in the workplace that, by itself or by interacting with other variables, can result in death, injuries, property damage, and other losses.
• Hazard control involves developing a program to recognize, evaluate, and eliminate (or at least reduce) the destructive efforts of hazards arising from human errors and from conditions in the workplace.
• Loss control is accident prevention, achieved through a complete safety and health control program.
• The involvement of employees and their representatives in carrying out risk assessments, deciding on preventive and protective measures and implementing those requirements in the workplace is a part of organization in a Safety Management System.
• Monitoring - Top management should set up an effective health and safety management system to implement the safety and health policy which is proportionate to the hazards and risks.
• Review involves reviewing the system of the whole health and safety management including the elements of planning, organization, and control and monitoring to ensure that the whole system remains effective.
• Clarifying health and safety responsibilities and ensuring that the activities of everyone are well coordinated is a part of control in a Safety Management System.
• A Safety Management System requires planning, organization, monitoring, control, and review.
• Safety responsibility and accountability involve challenging the safeness of exposures that either are not covered by a safety standard or clearly a suspected hazard in the light of experience, reasonable judgment, and prudent extrapolations from existing hazard information.
• Top management should measure what they are doing to implement the health and safety policy, to assess how effectively they are controlling risks, and how well they are developing a positive health and safety culture.
• The three basic principles of safety responsibility and accountability are detection of conditions and practices which the safety disciplines have identified as hazardous, application of the most appropriate established countermeasure(s) for controlling each of the identified hazards, and the responsibility of challenging the safeness of exposures that either are not covered by a safety standard or clearly a suspected hazard in the light of experience, reasonable judgment, and prudent extrapolations from existing hazard information.
• Risk is the chance of physical or personal loss.
• Safety is everybody’s concern and everyone who works in a company has things to contribute for each other’s safety.
• The effect of accident to a worker entails a lot of losses in terms of disability, loss of income, loss of earning capacity, change in social life, and death.
• The economic cost of incidents and illnesses are far greater than most people realize.
• Direct costs of occupational health and safety include medical costs, insurance premium, employee compensation, regulatory penalties.
• Indirect costs of occupational health and safety include investigation of the incident, cleaning up of incident site, disruption in production, repair/ replacement of damaged materials/ equipment, training of new/replacement employees, poor employee morale leading to low production, environmental litigation, ecological remediation, and marketing efforts to project image.
• Three basic principles of safety responsibility and accountability are detection of conditions and practices which the safety disciplines have identified as hazardous, application of the most appropriate established countermeasure(s) for controlling each of the identified hazards, and safety management principles.