2. Table of contents
What is OH for?
What is a hazard? hazard classification
What is OH?
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3. What is OH for?
Occupational health teams keep people well at work –
physically and mentally. Occupational health services will help
keep your employees healthy and safe whilst in work and
manage any risks in the workplace that are likely to give rise to
work-related ill health.
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4. What is OH?
Occupational health is an area of work in public health to
promote and maintain highest degree of physical, mental and
social well-being of workers in all occupations.
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5. What is a hazard?
A hazard is any source of potential damage, harm or
adverse health effects on something or someone.
Basically, a hazard is the potential for harm or an adverse
effect
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7. What are the OH objective?
the maintenance and promotion of workers' health and working
capacity, the improvement of working environment and work to
become conducive to safety and health and the development of
work organizations and working cultures
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8. Give the highest priority to those ranking high in
severity and likelihood and that affect the most
workers. Put prevention and control measures in place
for hazards that present the greatest risk first.
06 How hazard can be priori-
zed?
9. 07- five types of hazards
Safety
unsafe working conditions that can cause injury, illness,
and death.
Biological
isease producing agents that can be transmitted to
individuals through various routes of exposure.
Physical
workplace agents, factors, or circumstances that can
cause tissue damage by transfer of energy from the
agent to the person
Ergonomic
is any factor in the workplace that may cause injury or
health issues, such as musculoskeletal injuries.
Workload
issues that could cause stress or strain, such as workload,
violence or aggression
10. 08- three moods of hazards
Dormant Armed Active
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People, property, or
environment are in potential
harm's way.
A harmful incident involving
the hazard has actually
occurred.
The situation environment is
currently affected.
11. 09- hazards labelling Symbols and
Danger Signs
Acute toxicity (Symbol: skull and crossbones) Flammable (Symbol: flame)
Health hazard to the ozone layer
(Symbol: exclamation mark)
Serious health hazard
(Symbol: health hazard)
Explosive (Symbol: exploding
bomb)
Hazardous to the environment
(Symbol: environment)
12. What are Areas and Safety Roads?
refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person
using the road network for being killed or seriously injured. The
users of a road include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, their
passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport, mainly
buses and trams.
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13. 11- What are the laws and regulations about labelling
symbols and danger signs?
the Federal Trade Commission and the
Food and Drug Administration to issue
regulations requiring that all "consumer
commodities" be labeled to disclose net
contents, identity of commodity, and
name and place of business of the
product's
14. What are important colors in Safety
Strategic color selection: Choose colors that align with the desired emotional response and level
of urgency.
Red and orange
for warnings and dangers
blue for guidance
yellow for caution
green for safety and
positive
