Accident Prevention and Safety Management

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ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT
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Introduction:
A hazard can be defined as anything, any condition, or any kind of behaviour which
has the basic prospective of causing any health injury, harsh health, or harm to the properties
or the atmosphere. Health and safety hazards occur in each and every workplace. Some of
these safety hazards can be easily recognized and modified, while the others are the essential
risk factors of the workplace and people’s occupation and it must be accomplished in various
other manner such as for occurrence or by the usage of protective equipment (Kim, Cho &
Zhang, 2016). Most of the work-related hazards are quite inactive or may have a low-slung
potential of essentially occurring; though the employers should keep themselves prepared in
order to deal with these safety hazards in the meantime a hazard which has been becoming
active might get generated as an emergency situation. Safety hazards has chance to occur in
various different occupational conditions. Some safety hazards are severe in nature and
posture as an instant and major danger to the worker health and physical reliability of the
employee or the guests on the evidences (Han et al., 2019). Other hazard is found to take
much longer time to appear and it also may have an increasing effect on the health and safety,
as it is seen in the case for certain vapours, chemicals, dusts, and also radiation which might
lead to a chronic medical and health conditions that will be following the process of
repetition or may be prolonged exposure. Various research on the field of health and safety of
the industries human resource and especially those of the production corporations has it that.
And also majority of the nonappearance is found to be caused by the health-related problems
that are caused by these working environment (Zhang et al., 2015).
Discussion:
Hazards occurs in each and every workplace but is important to know about which
one of the hazards have the greatest potential of harming the workers. By the identification of

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these hazards at the workplace, it will be helpful to be better prepared in order to control or
remove these safety hazard and also prevent injuries, accidents, property damage, and
interruption (Patel & Jha, 2016).
Mainly, one of the key step in any kind of safety procedure is to proceed thorough a
safety hazard assessment in every work environments and for all equipment that are involved.
Safety Hazards are found to be unsafe type of working conditions which have a chance to
cause illness, injury and death (Schulte et al., 2017). Safety hazards are one of the most
common occurring workplace hazards. These safety hazards may be classified as:
 Mechanical Hazards: These type of hazards are usually found to be created by the
machinery and often with the distended and the moving parts.
 Chemical Hazards: These safety hazards occur when the worker are exposed to the
different chemicals that are used in the workplace. Some of these chemicals can be
safer than the others, but for the workers those who have severe cases of sensitivity
towards any sort of chemicals in such cases even a common solution or chemical can
cause skin irritation, illness, or respiratory problems (Rahman, 2016).
 Physical Hazards: These safety and workplace hazards are one of the most common
hazards in workplace and they are found to include the extremes of the ionizing or
non-ionizing radiation, temperature, electrical exposure, excessive noise, working
from heights, and indiscreet machinery (Amiri, Ardeshir & Zarandi, 2017).
 Biological Hazards: The biological hazards include the biological factors that can
cause injury and damage such as the viruses, fungus, bacteria, parasites, and any kind
of living organism that has the capability to infect or transfer diseases to the human
beings (Hyatt, 2018).

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 Psychosocial Hazards: The psychological hazard has a condition to arise from a
multiplicity of psychosocial factors which the workers may witness to be frustrating,
unsatisfactory, or demoralizing.
 Ergonomic Hazards: these are found to be including various considerations of the
total physical demands of the occupation upon the workers which is found to be
beyond the health, productivity, and safety (Ericson, 2015).
One of the most common safety hazards which is faced by every worker in a workplace
require to be aware of is the chemical hazards. The stated class of safety hazards is health and
environment dependent and is found to occur in order to be one of the most common safety
hazard faced by all the workplace and organizations (Lay et al., 2016). These chemical
hazards are found to include explosion, poisonous gas removal, chemical burn, mutations and
may also cause death of the workers and they effect the people and workers working with the
chemicals and acids in the industries and laboratories. Also these safety hazards are
dependent on the working environment but are also found to result in the difficulty of the
worker’s physical health as they get affected by these hazards (Amiri, Ardeshir & Zarandi,
2017).
Hazardous or dangerous chemicals that are used in the workplace are the mixtures,
substances, and materials which are to be classified conferring according to their health and
physicochemical effects, risks and threats (Papazoglou et al., 2017). Health and safety
hazards are often stated to include carcinogens, skin irritants, or respiratory sensitizers which
is observed to have an opposing effect on the worker's health conditions which as a result of
direct connection with or the worker’s exposure to the harmful chemical which are usually
seen to be occurring by means of skin contact, inhalation, or ingestion (Namian et al., 2016).
The physicochemical hazards are generally resulting from the substance's physical as well as