hazards

• Hazard acts as the source, risk the outcome.
• Risk Assessment involves both the assessment of hazards from a scientific point of view and the socioeconomic impacts of a hazardous event.
• Hazard Identification: This step involves finding, listing, and characterizing hazards.
• Risk Analysis: This process considers factors like the likelihood of harm occurring and the severity of potential consequences.
• Risk Evaluation: the process of identifying, analyzing, and comparing the potential risk..
• Risk Control: When hazards cannot be eliminated outright, risk control comes into play.
• low hazard

  scarcely endangered; slightly damage to buildings
• average hazard

  endangered inside the building; jedoch outside

  damages to buildings
• considerable hazard

  endangered inside and as well as outside

  destruction of buildings
• Hazard map

  highlights areas that are affected by or are vulnerable to a particular hazard.
• Hazard map

  are typically created for natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, flooding and tsunamis. Hazard maps help prevent serious damage and deaths.
• ELEMENTS OF HAZARD MAPPING

  Location

  Likelihood of occurrence

  Severity
• Hazard signs and symbols are recognizable symbols designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects.
• The use of symbols and graphical images is simple safety system used to convey messages at a glance
• The use of hazard symbols is often

  regulated by law and directed by standards organizations (OSHA)
• republic Act 11058

  An Act Strengthening Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Standards and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof.
• REPUBLIC ACT 11058

  Provides policy to ensure a safe and healthful workplace for all working people by affording them full protection against all hazards in the work environment.
• Flame:

  substances liable to self ignite when exposed to water or air (pyrophoric), or which emit flammable gas.
• Health Hazard:

  A cancer-causing agent (carcinogen) or substance with respiratory, reproductive or organ toxicity that causes damage over time

  (a chronic, or long-term, health hazard)
• Exploding Bomb:

  Explosives, including organic peroxides and highly unstable material at risk of exploding even without exposure to air (self-reactives)
• Skull and Crossbones:

  Substances, such as poisons and highly concentrated acids, which

  have an immediate and severe toxic effect (acute toxicity).
• Environmental Hazard:

  Chemicals toxic to aquatic wildlife. (Non- Mandatory)
• Exclamation Mark:

  An immediate skin, eye or respiratory tract irritant, or narcotic. It indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis. “Watch out”
• Oxidizing:

  Gases stored under pressure, (Symbol: Flame over circle)
• Corrosion:

  Materials causing skin corrosion/burns or eye damage on contact, or that are corrosive to metals
• Gas Cylinder

  Gases stored under pressure, such as ammonia or liquid nitrogen.
• Aquatic Toxicity

  The adverse effects to aquatic organisms that result from being exposed to a toxic substance.
• Air Toxicity

  Also known as hazardous air pollutants, are substances that cause or are suspected of causing serious harm to human health.
• Benzene

  example of air toxicity
• Danger or prohibition safety signs

  means a safety Sign Prohibiting behavior likely to cause a risk to health or safety
• Prohibition safety Signs

  generally use a black safety Symbol in a red circle with a diagonal cross through.
• Danger Signs

  are safety signs for warning when a hazard or a hazardous condition is likely to be life-threatening.
• The word ‘Danger’ is featured inside a red oval which in turn is inside a black rectangle and often feature other warning symbols.
• danger signs

  such as fuel storage, radiation, high voltage, chemicals, open holes and much more.
• Mandatory signs

  They give a positive instruction. In other words they tell you what to do rather than what not to do.

  circular, blue in color
• warning sign

  is a type of sign which indicates a potential hazard, obstacle or condition requiring special attention.
• Emergency Signs

  These signs tell people of safe places to go or safe conditions
• First Aid Signs

  indicate a first aid zone within an area. First aid signs are not always mandatory, but can be helpful in certain work settings. They can also be used to indicate where specialist first aid

  equipment is kept, such as defibrillators.
• Fire safety signs

  are always red, as this color represents danger or fire, and is eye-catching in an emergency situation. A sign like this could indicate a fire alarm call point or fire-fighting equipment.
• fire safety signs

  Usually, these are square or rectangular with a white image on a red background. They may also be accompanied by some text