WORKPLACE SAFETY

1.5   WORKPLACE SAFETY

a) Benefits Clean and safe working Environment

•  Reduces accident 

Reduce accidents can result in employees injuring their backs, leg, shoulders or other body             part because of the  broken equipment and also wet areas here people can slip.

•  Air Quality

Employees will literally breathe easier in safe workplaces free form chemical pollution, asbestos, dust cigarette smoke and other allergens.

•  Reduce stress

Unsafe workplace may cause unhealthy stress levels among employees fearful of threats from co-workers, dramatic altercations with management problems related to parking lot theft or other challenges.

b) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  Refers to protective clothing, helmet, goggles or other equipment design to protect the wearer’s body from injury. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemical, biohazards and air bone particulate matter.

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c) Important of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

•  Reduces employee exposure to hazards when engineering and administrative controls are not feasible or effective in reducing these exposures to acceptable level. Personal Protective Equipment needed hen hazard presents. It has serious limitations does not eliminate the hazard at source and result employees being exposed to hazard if the equipment fail.

Head Protection: Prevent head injuries caused by falling or flying object such as working below other employees who are using tools and material that could fall. 

Examples: safety glasses, face shield, welding goggles

Ear Protection: Prevent from excessive noise exposure to avoid hearing damage.

Examples: Ear muff, earplug

Arm and hand protection: protect arm and hand from hazardous situation.

Examples: Glove, hand pads, sleeves

d) Logout or Tag out

•  Definition: safety procedures which are used in industry and research settings to ensure the dangerous machines are properly shut off and not started up again prior to the completion of maintenance. 

•  Refers to the procedures established for control of Hazardous Energy as described by Organisation Safety and Health (OSHA) under Federal Registry 29 CFR 1910.147

•  Ensure employees safety during inspection maintenance or service of equipment by controlling all energy flow to and from equipment. 

•  To achieve system lock, energy source must all turn off or disconnected and store energy at release. 

•  Tag out is a labeling process that is always used hen lockout is required. The process of tag out is using indicator.

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e) Logout Program

•  Company idea safety policies
•  Machines specifics lockout procedures
•  Lock and key and tag control
•  Program review and certification
•  Outside contractor rules and regulations.

f) Purpose of lockout or tag out

  A lockout will help to prevent :

1) A contact with hazard while performing tasks that require the removal, by-passing, or deactivation of safe guarding devices.

2) The united start-up motion of machinery, equipment or processes.

g) When lockout or tag out required?

•  Required whenever employees are exposed to hazardous energy.

•  It is also a procedure that are required whenever you must remove or by pass a machine guard or other safety device, and place any part of your body where you could be caught by moving machinery.