Occupational Health and Safety.

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Dr. SAJJAD HUSSAIN
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Materials and Chemical Engineering
Occupational Health & Safety in Process Industries
CH534

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COURSE OBJECTIVE
✓ Introduce occupational health & safety
✓ Promote culture of personal safety.
✓ Awareness of potential health & safety on workplace
✓ Avoid common mistakes
✓ Reduce illnesses, incidents and accidents
✓ Consider health & safety solutions and best practices
✓ Improve
▪ Safe work processes & productivity
▪ Early discovery of emerging events and issues
✓ Encourage
▪ Communication & sharing
▪ Innovative initiatives

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Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Understand the
importance of
Occupational Health &
safety and its implication in
professional Way.
Learn how to deduce
the potential hazards of
Fire, Chemicals,
Construction, Machine
and Electricity.
Enhance the capability of
observing different types
of hazards and Risks.
Students will be able to:

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CONTENTS:
1. Introducing Managing OH&S.
2. Workplace hazards
3. Fire safety and controls methods,
4. General Chemical and Lab Safety
5. Machine Safety
6. Electrical Safety
7. First Aids Procedures
8. Physical & Psychological Health Hazards
9. Risk Assessment and Analysis
10. Construction, Environmental And International Aspects Of Health And Safety
11. Failure Tracing Methods
12. Understanding Responsibilities of Employer & Employee
13. Case Studies: Learning from Case Histories

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Text/Reference Books:
1. Case Studies
2. Handouts

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Evaluation Criteria

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What is OH & S ???
“Occupational health and safety encompasses the physical, mental
and social well-being of workers in all occupations”
According to World Health Organization (WHO); "occupational health deals with all
aspects of health and safety in the workplace and has a strong focus on primary
prevention of hazards.
Safety: The protection from physical injury
Health: The protection of body and mind from illness. It
has been defined as "a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease”.

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What Is Safe System?

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Where Do We Need Safety ?
• Living Place
• Working Place
Machine Safety
Electrical Safety
Chemical Safety
• Unknown Place
• Labs

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Why Manage HS?
We need health and safety to prevent ourselves or the people around us from getting
injured. Also to prevent the objects near us from getting damaged or broken.
Moral
Legal
Financial
Three Good Reasons:

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Common Safety Signs
1. Prohibition Signs – CAN’T DO
2. Mandatory Signs – MUST DO
3. Danger Signs – KILL YOU
4. Warning Signs – HURT YOU
5. Emergency Information Signs – SAFETY FIRST
6. Fire Signs – FIRE EQUIP

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs)
• Hand Protection
• Foot Protection
• Face Protection
• Nose Protection
• Skin Protection
• Eye Protection
• Hearing/Ear Protection

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14. Thank You

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Evolution Of Safety

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Imagined Vs Actual System ?

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