This document discusses hazard control in healthcare organizations. It defines hazards and explains that hazard control aims to prevent accidents, injuries, and illnesses through proactive management. The responsibilities of senior management, hazard control managers, and supervisors are outlined. Effective hazard control requires leadership, clear policies, training, incident reporting, and continual improvement. The document emphasizes that hazard control should be a priority function to improve safety, reduce costs from injuries, and comply with regulations.

1. OMD552-Hospital Waste
Management
UNIT-I (HEALTHCARE HAZARD CONTROL
AND UNDERSTANDING ACCIDENTS)

2. UNIT-I Syllabus
Healthcare Hazard Control: Introduction,
Hazard Control: Management & Responsibilities,
Hazard Analysis, Hazard Correction, Personal
Protective Equipment, Hazard Control
Committees,
Accident Causation Theories, Accident
Reporting, Accident Investigations, Accident
Analysis, Accident Prevention, Workers‟
Compensation, Orientation, Education, and
Training.
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3. HEALTHCARE
• Healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors in most of
the country’s economy.
• Healthcare organization seeks to maintain revenues,
minimize losses, serve their communities, and meet
regulatory or accreditation requirements which need
effective safety functions.
• Advances in medical technology and clinical treatment
techniques expose workers and patients to a variety of
potential hazards.
• Rates of occupational injury to healthcare workers have
risen over the past decade.
• Safety will remain a key function in healthcare
organizations which emphasis on emergency management,
indoor air quality, and patient safety.
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4. Hazard?
• The International Board for Certification of Safety
Managers (IBFCSM) defines a hazard as “any solid, gas,
or liquid with the potential to cause harm when
interacting with an array of initiating stimuli including
human-related factors.”
• Safety issues facing healthcare organizations,
– Needlesticks
– Back injuries
– Slips and falls
– Laser hazards
– Chemical exposures
– Biological hazards
– Workplace violence & Community
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5. International Board
• The International Board for Certification of Safety
Managers (IBFCSM), founded in 1976 operated for
some time as the Board of Certified Hazard Control
Management (BCHCM).
• Motto of IBFCSM is Individual Credentials—The Key to
Upgrading the Profession, reflects the on improving
organizational safety and hazard control functions.
• The board offers qualified working healthcare
professionals an opportunity to earn their credential
through,
– Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP)
– Certified Healthcare Emergency Professional (CHEP),
– Certified Patient Safety Officer (CPSO)
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6. International Board (Continued…)
• The board offers to add the healthcare Fire Safety
Management (FSM) designation to their primary
certification for CHSP and CHEP credential holders
• The board offers a registered healthcare safety
technician-environmental services (RHST-EVS)
designation fills a vital need for a credential for those
responsible for cleaning and disinfecting healthcare
facilities.
• The board also offers qualified candidates the
opportunity to earn their credential in,
– Certified Hazard Control Manager (CHCM)
– Certified Hazard Control Manager-Security (CHCM-SEC)
– Certified Product Safety Manager (CPSM)
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7. Hazard control
• Hazard control is also known as safety which emphasis
on preventing accidents, illnesses, and injuries.
• Need a proactive hazard control approach based on
leadership involvement and the practice of effective
management
• Senior healthcare leaders must learn to promote
hazard control and safety as an organizational value.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) continues to highlight the importance of safety
and health for all healthcare organizations including
hospitals, nursing homes, surgery centers, and
physician practices.
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8. Hazard control (Continued…)
• The scope of a hazard is to cause human harm
(injuries, illnesses), property damage, risk to
the environment (work interruptions), or a
combination of all three.
• The board defines hazard closing as the
process of two or more hazards or causal
factors attempting to occupy the same space
at the same time.
• The interaction of these causal factors is called
as the accident generation cycle.
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9. Fail in Hazard control?
• Most organizations must comply with a number of
safety and environmental standards to minimize risky
and unsafe behaviors.
• Failing to so can impact morale, operational
productivity, and result in higher accident rates.
• Once, a healthcare maintenance supervisor leaving a
safety responsibility presentation that, “I will never
again tell any of my technicians to work safely
because of compliance, accreditation, or
organizational requirements.” He then said, “I will tell
my subordinates that we will work safely on every
task because it is the right thing to do.”
• He decided to become a leader instead of as the key
motivators for working safely.
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10. How to do Hazard control?
• Companies, businesses, and institutions must make hazard
control a priority organizational function.
• Proactive hazard control can improve operational
efficiency, organizational effectiveness, and the bottom
line.
• The hazard control profession should focus to prevent
accidents, injuries, and other losses using management,
leadership, and improvement principles.
• Senior leaders must ensure that organizational members
promptly report accidents, hazards, close-call incidents,
and unsafe behaviors.
• Organizations can do little to improve safety-related
behaviors or encourage continuous learning processes.
• Passive hazard control efforts can communicate a general
awareness about the importance of working safely.
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11. Continued...
• When organizational leaders and supervisors
make people the priority, adherence to
established policies and compliance standards
becomes easier to achieve.
• Most experienced hazard control managers use
leadership to minimize risky and unsafe behaviors
& understand the importance of engineering
principles which plays in preventing accidents
and injuries.
• Some well-known engineering innovations such
as fire prevention technologies and safer
machine designs.
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12. HAZARD CONTROL MANAGEMENT
• Hazard control management must focus on developing
processes or systems that can prevent harm and loss.
• The process requires written policies, plans, or
procedures which should direct the hazard control
function.
• Hazard control is not a program but as a function of
the organization.
• Considering hazard control as a function of the
organization elevates its priority in the minds of
everyone.
• The function must connect with organizational
structures and operational philosophies.
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13. 7 Values of Hazard Control Management
1. Never-ending process
2. People focused
3. Leadership driven
4. Operational priority
5. Benefits everyone,
6. Reduces organizational losses
7. Prevents human harm
• Many organizations develop written safety
programs to demonstrate visual compliance
with regulatory.
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14. Proactive Vs Reactive Hazard Control
• Anticipates, recognizes, and
identifies hazards
• Analyzes and determines
risks
• Controls hazards to reduce
accident potential
• Educates and encourages
safe behaviors
• Focuses in preventing losses
• Analyzes to determine root
causes
• Operates to open and
hidden cultures
• Involves leaders in hazard
control
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• Evaluates and investigates past
incidents or accidents
• Uses risk management to control
losses
• Satisfied with reducing accident
recurrence
• Disciplines unsafe actions and
behaviors
• Accepts some losses if not too severe
• Documents errors and primary
causes
• Responsive to formal culture
expectations
• Leaders delegate responsibilities to
others

15. Hazard Control Is Good Business
• Liberty Mutual, in its 2007 Workplace Safety
Index, estimated that in 2005, employers paid
almost $1 billion per week in direct
compensation costs for disabling workplace
injuries and illnesses.
• Survey on ROI (Return on Investment)-60%
• Proactive efforts can help reduce workers’
compensation premiums, injury costs, and lost
productivity.
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16. HAZARD CONTROL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Many organizations with high accident rates
fail to outline specific hazard control
responsibilities in their plans, procedures,
directives, and job descriptions.
• The concept of responsibility relates to a
person’s obligation to carry out assigned
duties in an efficient, effective, and safe
manner.
• Responsible designation includes Senior
Management, Manager, Supervisor.
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17. Senior Management Responsibilities
• Develop, sign, and publish an organizational
hazard control policy statement.
• Describe key expectations related to
accomplishing hazard control objectives.
• Ensure that all organizational members can
explain the major objectives.
• Develop methods to track progress and provide
feedback to all organizational members.
• Require managers and supervisor to visibly
support established objectives.
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18. HC Manager Responsibilities
• Guide hazard control(hc) training & educational sessions.
• Serve as the hc consultant and information center.
• Provide hc–related technical assistance as necessary.
• Provide information about legal and compliance
requirements affecting safety and health.
• Evaluate overall hazard control performance as related to
established objectives.
• Maintain communication with regulatory agencies and
professional safety organizations.
• Oversee accident investigations, hazard analysis, and
preparation of reports or summaries.
• Monitor progress of corrective actions required to address
hazards or other safety deficiencies.
• When seeking senior leader’s approval for hazard control
expenditures, use a well-prepared cost–benefit analysis
document.
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19. Supervisor Responsibilities
• Enforce work rules and correct unsafe or at-risk behaviors.
• Implement hc policies, procedures, and practices in their areas.
• Provide job or task-related training and education.
• Immediately report & investigate accidents in their work areas.
• Conduct periodic area hazard control and safety inspections.
• Ensure proper maintenance &servicing of equipment , tools.
• Lead by example and personally adhere to hazard control
requirements.
• Conduct safety and hazard control meetings on a regular basis.
• Work with organizational hazard control personnel to correct
and control hazards.
• Ensure subordinates can access required plans, policies, and
procedures.
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20. Supervisor Responsibilities when
Addressing Behaviors
• Supervisors must explain work rules and behavioral expectations to
all new or transferred employees.
• Supervisors never tolerate individuals those who disregard work
rules.
• When disciplining an individual, do so in private but always
document the facts.
• Never confuse correcting a behavior with undertaking needed
disciplinary action.
• When correcting an unsafe behavior, always state the facts about
the situation but limit personal opinions.
• Take time to recognize good behaviors by using positive
reinforcement.
• Some may recognize a hazard but not possess the ability to deal
with it. Too many injuries occur when a person recognized the
hazard but failed to respect its potential for causing harm.
• Some individuals, for unknown reasons, purposely decide to engage
in unsafe or risky behaviors.
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