ICEV Safe Working Environment
Creating a Safe Work Environment
Display safety posters, provide safety training, organize a safety committee to stay on top of safety issues, establish a safety policy, emphasize company's commitment to eliminating/reducing accidents and injuries, emphasize the overall importance of accident and injury prevention and conduct regular safety and health inspections.
Investigating Workplace Accidents
Follow this process: identifying the cause, reporting the findings, developing a plan for corrective action, implementing the plan, evaluating the effectiveness of the corrective action and making changes for continuous improvement.
Workplace Accident Action Plans
Getting medicinal attention for the injured, completing an investigation report, recommend or implement appropriate corrective actions. Must always be recorded and reported: requirement under social security legislation and in order to take immediate action and help trace the cause.
Includes:
Limiting access to dangerous products or activities, limiting levels of harmful substances, requiring the use or installation of particular protective devices and requiring information be provided to employees about likely hazards.
What does OSHA stand for?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Safety Awareness Programs
Remind employees to consistently work safely using proper policies and procedures when performing workplace tasks, demonstrating safety skills on a regular basis, reinforce workplace safety rules and regulations in order to encourage its continuance.
Welfare Regulations
Require employers to provide various services, benefits and facilities to employees for their betterment. Include monitoring all working conditions: creating an infrastructure for health, industry relations and insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.
Workplace Accident Environment
Can often be prevented by creating a safe working environment: nearly 3 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported by private industry employers in 2014, 4,679 worker were killed on the job in 2014.
Right-to-Know Laws
Are a group of rules and regulations at the state and national levels (are provided by OSHA) provide employee rights to informationa about hazardous materials in the workplace.
Safety & Health Regulations (OSHA)
Are regulated and monitored by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Requires private employers to: maintain a safe and healthy working environment for employees as is reasonably possible and protect employees from all "recognized hazards"
Safety & Health Regulations
Are rules which all employers must comply with: Assure safe healthful workplaces by setting and enforcing standards, provide training, outreach, education and assistance. They are mandatory requirements intended to prevent or reduce workplace accidents.
Workplace Accident Causes
Collisions, trips and falls, toppling objects, slipping, lifting, repetitive motion.
Employer Obligations (Right-to-Know Laws)
Compile and retain relevant records, disclose any available information on potentially hazard materials and processes used, provide adequate training to employees working with the hazardous materials and disclose information on sudden health risks.
Safety & Security Policies
OSHA suggests documenting written safety and security policies, particularly for larger organizations and should contain clear, adaptive goals and objectives.
Reporting Accidents
Should be done quickly and efficiently: date when the report is made, method of reporting, date, time and place of the event, personal details of those involved and brief description of the nature of the event or disease.
Act of 1970
This law was passed to ensue safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women, authorized enforcement of the standards developed under the act and provided research, information, education and training in the field occupational safety and health. This act protects 6.5 millions worker in the U.S.
