Workplace Safety Tips and Tricks
Protecting your employees can be a challenging proposition. The modern workplace can be a loud and dangerous place that exposes your workers to hazards that are unique to your workplace. For this reason, it’s critically important that managers and employees alike understand whatthey can do to ensure each employee goes home safely after every shift. Below are 9 Workplace Safety …
The Toolbox Talks materials provide support for brief presentations and discussions about a series of safety and health hazards. For each topic, there is information that can first be read to the audience. Each topic also includes several questions that can be used to guide brief discussions. During the discussions, workers are encouraged to relate the hazard covered to their …
Common Causes of Workplace Accidents What is a Work-Related Accident? A work-related accident is any unintended event that occurs in the course of the work (excluding the domestic work) that leads to the injury or the condition. It can also be the Dangerous Occurrence, the Occupational Disease or: The Traffic accidents that occur at the workplace or in the course …
Sanitary Conveniences Suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences shall be provided or made available at readily accessible places. So far as is reasonably practicable, rooms containing sanitary conveniences shall be adequately ventilated and lit. So far as is reasonably practicable, sanitary conveniences and the rooms containing them shall be kept in a clean and orderly condition. Separate rooms containing sanitary conveniences …
Significant Factors Economic Climate The wealthiest countries of the world, where individuals have access to the basic necessities for life such as food, clean water, and shelter, have the funding to create and enforce good occupational health and safety (OHS) standards. In countries where individuals do not have these resources, it is inevitable that OHS is given a relatively lower …