TLE 8: OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PROCEDURES

• Safety Hazards - The most common and will be present in most workplaces at one time or another. Unsafe conditions that can cause injury, illness, and death.
• Physical Hazards - Common physical hazards are heat, noise, and vibration.
• Biological Hazards - Working in healthcare and community care, staff may be exposed to a large number of biological hazards.
• Chemical Hazards - Health care environments can house a vast array of chemicals.
• Ergonomic Hazards - When working conditions ang body positioning causes a strain in some way.
• Psychological Hazards - Any hazard that affects the mental well-being or mental health of the worker.
• Risk Assessment - the process where you identify hazards, analyze or evaluate the risk associated with that hazard, and determine appropriate ways to eliminate or control the hazard.
• Elimination (including substitution) - remove the hazard from the workplace.
• Engineering Controls - include designs or modifications to plants, equipment, ventilation systems, and processes that reduce the risk of exposure.
• Administrative Controls - including timing of work, policies, and other rules, and work practices such as standards and operating procedures.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - equipment worn by individuals to reduce exposure such as contact with chemicals or exposure to noise.
• Risk - the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard.
• Thing - Knife - Cut
• Substance - Benzene - Leukemia
• Material - Asbestos - Mesothelioma
• Source of Energy - Electricity - Shock, electrocution
• Condition - Wet floor - Slips, Falls
• Process - Welding - Metal fume fever
• Practice - hard rock mining - silicosis