Heath and safety at work - petroleum engineering Overview: What is Health and Safety? Some Important Definitions. Important Aims of Health and Safety. Health and Safety Responsibility.

1. P R E P A R E D B Y : S A F E N ,
B A F R I N , H A R I K A R , D A R Y A
HEALTH & SAFETY

2. Overview
What is Health and Safety?
Health and Safety it is about preventing people from being harmed at
work, by taking the right precautions and by preventing a satisfactory
working environment.
Regulations and procedures intended to prevent accident or injury in
workplaces or public environments
 What is Health and Safety?
 Some Important Definitions.
 Important Aims of Health and Safety.
 Health and Safety Responsibility.

3. SOME IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
 Health
 Safety
 Welfare
 Workplace
 Environment protection
 Accident
 Health and safety representative
 Dangerous Occurrence
 Employee
 Employer
 Risk
 Hazard

4. IMPORTANT AIMS OF HEALTH AND
SAFETY
Securing the health, safety and welfare of persons work.
Protecting workers and other people by eliminating or
reducing workplace risks.
Preventing and controlling the keeping and use of
explosive, highly flammable or dangerous substances.
Controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere.

5. COMMON ACCIDENT EXAMPLES
 Falling down stairs
 Slipping on wet floors
 Hitting or being hit by objects.
 Receiving an electric shock.
 Breathing in dangerous fumes
such as toxic gases.
 Getting burnt or killed in a fire.

6. Health and safety responsibility
A. Employee Responsibilities
B. Employer Responsibilities
What could happen?
Near-miss Minor injury Major injury Death

7. A. EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
• Remember to do what they have been taught when they
use tools and other things at work.
• Be careful about themselves and other people’s health
and safety.
• Do what employer says about health and safety.
• Tell someone if there is any problem or risk at work (boss,
employer, or health and safety representative.
There are four things employee must do to keep
themselves and other people safe at work.

8. B. EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITIES
Your rights as an employee to work in a safe and healthy
environment are given to you by law and generally cannot be
changed or removed by your employer
The most important of these rights are:
• provide safe place of work
• provide safe plant and equipment
• provide safe systems of work

9. • As far as possible, to have any risks to your health and
safety properly controlled.
• To be provided with any personal protective and safety
equipment free of charge.
• To stop work and leave your work area, without being
disciplined if you have reasonable concerns about your
safety.

10. Thank You