Hazard, Safety and Risk Analysis in Work Place

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Hazard, Safety and Risk Analysis in Work Place
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Introduction
The workplace is definable as the place where work is done such as companies, shops,
and construction sites. Such workplaces there are always very many issues such as risk and
hazards that occur to the employees (Smith, 2015). Hazards are agents that pose potential harm
to an individual in a workplace while risk is the probability of an individual to face and exposed
hazard in a work environment. The process of identifying the potential risks refers to as risk
assessment (Lathrop & Ezell, 2017). Most of the dangers that occur in workplaces include, fire,
falling, injuries from the machines (Fonseca & Duaute, 2014). Safety and Risk Management is a
requirement in every organization and construction sites. The uncertainty of the accidents calls
for proper procedures and implementation of the laid down policies. . Many organizations tend to
run away from or assume any accident experienced in the premise. The article analyzes risk and
hazards that happened in a construction place through outlining how safety policies get breached,
how to resolves such hazards, what could have been done differently to prevent the accident and
a personal approach to the situation.
Accidents are uncertain events and are paramount to our everyday’s life, such as in
homes and workplaces. Proper strategies and methods should be put in place to avoid and
address accidents in case of their occurrences through a process known as Safety and risk
management .Safety and risk management is a systematical method of understanding, analyzing
and discussing such foreseen risks and coming up with proper ways to avoid their occurrences.
(Goerlandt et al., 2015)There are common international standards constructed to control and
address the most common hazards that may occur in construction sites. The commonly used
standards in safety and risk management include; International Standard Organization (ISO
31000), which is a codified risk management and mandated to oversee that all construction

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companies observe all the principles and procedures to the latter during management of risks.
China Ocean Shipping Company (COSO 2004) and Oregon Government Ethics Commission
(OGEC 2009) Is a commission that is tasked by the government about accountability to provide
ethics to the shipping companies Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) mandated to
provide the general view on the hazards related to chemicals in a workplace (Hawkers, 2014).
Globally there are a large number of construction firms that are less concerned with the safety
and risk management leading to a large number of employee accidents reported.
The most common of accidents in the construction industry include; tripping accidents
accounting for about 38.8% of the total accidents in the Construction Company (Kasprowicz,
2017). About 9.6% of deaths in the construction company results as workers stuck between
machines and objects. Electric shock accounts to about 8.6% of the total deaths experienced in
the construction company, the use faulty and unmaintained machines account for 7.8%, while
noise hazards, hazards caused by harmful and corrosive chemicals ( Carisson et al., 2010). The
study shows that death rate in Construction sites is higher than the average of all industries
making it very essential for the employers and employees to take control of safety and risk
management procedures. These systems provided by Construction Health Risk Working Group,
CONIAC, and it ensures that every policy is observable by every construction engineer and if
not, it awards proper punishment. The laid down policies are very many for example no
employees are expected to catch the disease as a result of the kind of work done. From the
previous accidental and death reports, more than 100 people are likely to die when exposed to
prolong health hazard at the workplace or slip due to wrong tile, or material used (Zhao, 2014). It
is mandatory for the employer to check and control the health of the workers and advising them