for education

1. How to select safety appliances
• know the Hazards
• Know the risk
• Know the body organs exposed
• Select the appliances –
• Procure as per standards
• Maintain their upkeep
• Enforce the use
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2. • Safety helmet
• Safety shoes & boots
• Hand gloves
• Safety belt / Harness
• Safety dress / apron
• Ear plugs & muffs
• Dust mask / respirators
• Goggles / face shields
• Heater glass / smelter spectacles
• Acid / alkali proof appliances
Different types of safety appliances
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3. Workers’ role in accident prevention
Guiding principles of accident prevention
• Accidents have high cost at times unbearable
by the organisation.
• Accidents are caused, they just do not happen.
• Most of the accidents are preventable.
• Accidents can be prevented by breaking chain
of events.
• Safety can be assured by safety management
system.
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4. Workers’ role in accident prevention
Guiding principles of accident prevention
• Hazards are to be identified, risks to be
assessed and controlled.
• Joint participation and involvement of all is
the essence of safety management.
• There is no substitute for safety awareness.
• Systematic approach is the key to success.
• Industrial safety management is an on-going
process.
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5. Observe discipline
• To keep work place clean and tidy.
• To replace guards on moving machineries.
• To keep walkway obstruction free.
• To check spillage of materials.
• To observe safe norms (sop, smp, s/d procesdures
etc.)
• To avoid short cuts.
• To avoid tempering of safety devices.
• To use safety appliances as per work needs.
Expectation of Employee
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6. Improve work knowledge and skill
• to listen to safety instructions.
• to know about hazards & risks.
• to apply common sense.
• to ask & suggest safety measures.
• to understand benefits of safety.
• to understand losses due to accidents.
• to follow safety norms.
Expectation of Employee
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7. Involvement in safety activities
• to actively participate in safety meetings &
inspection.
• to apprise line managers regarding dangers.
• to associate in risk assessment & control.
• to help improvement of safety culture.
Expectation of Employee
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8. ROLE PLAYING IN ACCIDENT PREVENTION
WORKER
HUMAN
ERROR
ACCIDENT
UNSAFE ACT
+
UNSAFE
CONDITION
INJURY
Heredity
Environment
•To learn safe methods of work.
•To understand & follow instructions.
•To adopt safe behaviour.
•To help removal of unsafe condition.
•To help follow up of SOP & SMP.
•Supervision •To use ppes
DOMINO SEQUENCE THEORY
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9. Safety Management System
HAZARD
RISK
ACCIDENT
CONTROL
CONTROL
Avoid exposure &
probability & reduce
severity
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10. Obligations of workers
section 111, the Factories Act, 1948.
1. No worker in a factory -
• shall willfully interfere with or misuse any
appliance, convenience or other thing provided
in a factory for the purpose of securing the
health, safety or welfare of the workers therein;
• shall willfully and without reasonable cause do
anything likely to endanger himself or others;
and
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11. Obligations of workers
section 111, the Factories Act, 1948.
• shall willfully neglect to make use of any
appliance or other thing provided in the factory
for the purpose of securing the health or safety of
the workers therein.
• If any worker employed in a factory contravenes
any of the provisions of this section or of any rule
or order made thereunder, he shall be punishable
with imprisonment for a tenure which may
extend to three months or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
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12. Right of workers
section 111 a, the Factories Act, 1948.
Every worker shall have the right to –
• Obtain from the occupier, the information
relating to worker’s health and safety at
work;
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13. Right of workers
section 111 a, the Factories Act, 1948.
Every worker shall have the right to –
• Get trained within the factory wherever
possible, or to get himself sponsored by the
occupier for getting trained at a training
centre or institute, duly approved by the chief
inspector, where training is imparted for
worker’s health and safety at work;
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14. Right of workers
section 111 a, the Factories Act, 1948.
Every worker shall have the right to –
• Represent to the inspector directly or through
his representative in the matter of inadequate
provision for protection of his health or safety
in the factory.
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15. USE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENTS
Safety appliances are last line of defense. They reduce
the risk by reducing severity factor.
Section 87 of the factories act, 1948 says, in addition to
other points, that
Where the state government is of the opinion that any
manufacturing process or operation is carried on in a
factory exposes any person employed in it to a serious
risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease, it may
make rules applicable to any factory or class or
description of factories in which manufacturing
process or operation is carried on.
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16. USE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENTS
D) providing for protection of all persons employed in
the (manufacturing process or operation) or in the
vicinity where it is carried on.
F) requiring the provisions of additional welfare
amenities and sanitary facilities & the supply of
protective equipment & clothing & laying down the
standards.
AMENITIES
X
ENGG. CONTROL
ENFORCEMENT
SAFETY APPLIANCES DO NOT
CONTROL THE ACCIDENTS,
THEY REDUCE THE EXPOSURE
AND IMPACT.
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