This document discusses health and safety in the workplace. It notes that safety hazards can cause immediate harm or death through poorly maintained equipment, unsafe machinery, or chemical exposure. Health hazards like toxic dusts and chemicals can slowly deteriorate health and cause issues like cancer, poisoning, or respiratory disease. The document also discusses causes of accidents like tasks, working conditions, employee factors, fatigue, noise, and lack of lighting. It recommends approaches to improve safety through engineering, guarding machinery, and job design.

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3. Improve productivity and quality of work.

4. Reduce accidents, injuries, absenteeism and labor turnover.

5. Protect workers against any health hazard arising out of work or conditions in which it is carried out.Nano Science & Technology Consortium

7. Poorly maintained equipment

8. Unsafe machinery

9. Exposure to hazardous chemicals

10. Potential injuries:

11. Loss of hearing

12. Loss of eyesight or body parts

13. Cuts, sprains, burns, bruises, broken bones

14. Electric shockNano Science & Technology Consortium

16. Physical and biological hazards

17. Toxic and carcinogenic dusts and chemicals

18. Stressful working conditions

19. These can cause:

20. Cancer

21. Heavy-metal or other poisoning

22. Respiratory disease

23. Psychological disorders, such as depressionNano Science & Technology Consortium

25. Poisonous gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 3,000 people and injuring 300,000

26. Thousands have contracted respiratory diseases after contact with asbestosNano Science & Technology Consortium

28. Tasks

29. Working conditions

30. Nature of the employees

31. Causes related to the task and working conditions:

32. Poorly designed or repaired machines

33. Lack of protective equipment

34. Dangerous chemicals or gasesNano Science & Technology Consortium

36. Under 30 years of age

37. Poor psychomotor and perceptual skills

38. Impulsive

39. Easily bored

40. Few experts believe that attitudinal causes of accidents significantly influence accident rates

41. We must know more about accident-proneness before attempting to screen out accident-prone personsNano Science & Technology Consortium

43. Fatigue

44. Noise

45. Lack of proper lighting

46. Boredom

47. Horseplay and fightingNano Science & Technology Consortium

49. Make jobs more comfortable, less confusing, and less fatiguing

50. Slow down the speed of an assembly line

51. Add protective guards to machinery

52. Use color coding in dangerous areasNano Science & Technology Consortium

55. Investigate health hazards and effects

56. Analyze health factorsNano Science & Technology Consortium

58. Enjoy good health

59. Live longerNano Science & Technology Consortium