Workplace Hazards
What Are The Hazards Associated With Confined Spaces?
What is a Confined Space? Confined Space refers to any place, including any vessel, tank, container, pit, bund, chamber, cellar or any other similar space which, by virtue of its enclosed nature, creates conditions that give rise to a likelihood of an accident, harm or injury of such a nature as to require emergency action due to: The presence or …
How are potential hazards identified?
A hazard is something that can cause harm, e.g. electricity, chemicals, working up a ladder, noise, a keyboard, a bully at work, stress, etc. A risk is the chance, high or low, that any hazard will actually cause somebody harm. For example, working alone away from your office can be a hazard. The risk of personal danger may be high. Electric cabling is a …
Pre-Rehearsal Planning for Working at Heights
Rehearsal is a fundamental safe work practice for live performance. If a falling hazard cannot be eliminated during the design and construction phases of production, use rehearsal to introduce workers to the hazard and train them to deal with it. Proceed gradually from no risk to performance-level risk. Complicated sequences and hazardous parts of the action may require far more …
The Mechanical Machinery Hazards
Mechanical Machinery Hazards Most machinery has the potential to cause injury to people, and machinery accidents figure prominently in official accident statistics. These injuries may range in severity from a minor cut or bruise, through various degrees of wounding and disabling mutilation, to crushing,decapitation or another fatal injury. It is not solely powered machinery that is hazardous, for many manually …
What is the Hazard & How to Identify the Hazard?
Here are the common definitions of the terms hazard, risk, risk assessment and control as they apply in the workplace. HAZARD HAZARD in general means anything that can cause harm but, for your purposes, this must be workplace-generated (e.g. dangerous chemicals, electricity, working at heights from ladders, poor housekeeping). RISK RISK is the likelihood, great or small, that someone will …