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Understanding Workplace Hazards and Risks

The document discusses hazards and safety in the workplace. It defines a hazard as a potential source of danger, and risk as the probability of harm from exposure to a hazard. Hazards can be visible, like untidy work areas, or hidden, like toxic gases. Hazards also develop over time through damage or deterioration. Various categories of hazards are outlined, including physical, ergonomic, substance, biological, radiation, and psychological hazards. Methods for dealing with hazards include elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protection. The document concludes with safety tips like cleaning up work areas and following procedures.

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Understanding Workplace Hazards and Risks

The document discusses hazards and safety in the workplace. It defines a hazard as a potential source of danger, and risk as the probability of harm from exposure to a hazard. Hazards can be visible, like untidy work areas, or hidden, like toxic gases. Hazards also develop over time through damage or deterioration. Various categories of hazards are outlined, including physical, ergonomic, substance, biological, radiation, and psychological hazards. Methods for dealing with hazards include elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protection. The document concludes with safety tips like cleaning up work areas and following procedures.

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  • Hazard Identification
  • Hazard Definitions
  • Types of Hazards
  • Hazard Categories
  • Dealing with Hazards
  • Safety Practices

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE

S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Identification

For Safety

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

What is a Hazard?

A hazard is a source of danger


which is defined as:
a condition or situation that exists
within the working environment
which has the potential to cause
injury or harm to people, plant and
machinery, or the environment

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

What is a Risk?

A risk relates to exposure to


the danger and is defined as:
the probability of any injury or
harm to people, plant and
machinery, or the
environment

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Visible hazards

untidy housekeeping;

missing machine guarding;


broken or damaged ladders;
damaged vehicles; and
blown or missing lights.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hidden Hazards

Examples of hidden
hazards can include:
Toxic and asphyxiating
gasses and vapours
inside confined spaces,
and
Emissions from
radioactive sources

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Developing Hazards
building and structural damage created by vibration or
sagging foundations;
corrosion and excessive weathering of metal
components;
abnormal wear and tear on critical parts of machinery,
equipment or plant; and
deterioration from ultraviolet radiation and chemical
reaction.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Visible hand drill hazards


split or heat damaged power cord
insulation; and
bent plug pin.
cracked outer casing;
Particles of dirt and foreign matter
from drilling can enter the cooling
vents and breakdown the double
insulation.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories

Physical:
This category includes hazards from
exposure to:
noise;
vibration; and
temperature

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories

Ergonomic hazards are associated with the


people and the equipment or machinery that
they work with. This includes:
work station layout;
equipment design; and
instrument layout.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories

Substance
This category includes hazards associated with
the exposure to chemicals and other hazardous
substances, such as:
cyanide;
acids;
caustic soda; and
lead.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories
Biological
This category includes hazards
associated with exposure to
viruses, bacteria and parasites

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories

Radiation. This includes hazardous sources


of radiation energy such as:
ultraviolet radiation from exposure to
sunlight or arc welding,
ionising radiation from x-ray equipment;and
infra-red radiation from drying, baking and
heating processes

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


S.A. CONSTANTA

Hazard Categories

Psychological
This category includes the hazards that can
have an effect on the persons mental wellbeing and behaviour, such as:

work load;

shift arrangement; and

workplace violence.

People behind safety

GRUP SERVICII PETROLIERE


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Dealing with hazards

Elimination
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
Personal protection

People behind safety

The things we can do

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S.A. CONSTANTA

Clean up after the job.


Store and stack items
correctly.
Post warning signs.
Make sure guards are in
place.
Operate equipment
correctly.
Barricade hazardous areas.
People behind safety

Follow safe work


procedures.
Dont walk away from
a hazard.
Fix it or report it.

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