Occupational Hygiene, health and Ergonomics

This report discusses the principles of occupational health and hygiene, strategies to prevent hazards in the workplace, hazardous factors and techniques to identify them, and methods of monitoring and ensuring safety in the workplace. It focuses on the case of Tesla Motors.

PRS3512
Occupational Hygiene, health and
Ergonomics

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Principles of occupational health and hygiene.............................................................................1
Strategies to prevent Hazardous on Workplace...........................................................................1
Hazardous Factor on work Place and Techniques to Identify Hazardous Agent........................2
Methods of Monitoring and ensuring Safety on the work place..................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
This is important for various organization to maintain health and safety measures in
organization to keep people safe and secure on the work place (Jacobi, 2017). There are different
hazardous risk factors are present s in the manufacturing plant of organizations that can affect
people who work around. This report will be explaining various risk factors that are possible on
the work place of Tesla motors. Some principle of health, hygiene will be analysed in the report.
Types of hazards and methods of preventions will be provided in the study. Process to ensure
health and hygiene in Tesla Motors will be considered in report,
MAIN BODY
Principles of occupational health and hygiene
There are some principles can be used in Tesla Motors to ensure the health and safety of
employees on the workplace (Kim, Park and Park, 2016). Some of main principles of
Occupational Health and Hygiene are-
1. Include and implement all the safety and security measures in order to ensure the safety
and Hygiene on the work place.
2. Follow all the guidelines that are provided by authority in order to keep employees safe
on work place.
3. Maintain continuity in operations that can help to improve health hygiene standards on
the work place.
4. Provide effective guidelines to the workers to maintain the operations free from risks.
5. Providing all safety gadget to the workers to avoid hazardous situation with in the work
place (Moyce and Schenker, 2018).
6. Policies of the organization must be enforces to maintain health and hygiene sandards on
the workplace.
7. Ensure all the rights of the employees by providing them with safety measures in order to
reduce the safety related issues for the employees on work place of Tesla Motors.
Strategies to prevent Hazardous on Workplace
There are various strategies can be used by organization to avoid hazardous situation in
company. Some of the main strategies are-
1. By ensuring various regulatory, statutory and ergonomic consideration in order to keep
manufacturing plant of Tesla Motors safe and secure for employees.
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2. Improve the health and safety measures on the work place to reduce the consequences
that are result of ergonomic issues.
3. Reduce the use of hazardous chemicals and reagents on work place in order to prevent
any accident on the work place (Amponsah-Tawiah and Mensah, 2016).
4. Implement proper safety guidelines on work place in order to avoid severe hazardous
condition in the manufacturing plant of Tesla Motors.
Hazardous Factor on work Place and Techniques to Identify Hazardous Agent
Hazardous Agents At Manufacturing Plant of Tesla
There are different hazardous agents available in the manufacturing plant of Tesla
Motors. These measures can be categorise differently.
Chemical Hazard- Chemical reagents that are used in cleaning process and colouring process
are hazardous for employees. Concentrate chemicals can also cause issues in breathing and
vision.
Physical Hazard- There are different heavy equipments and tools are used at the manufacturing
plant that can cause critical accident. Fire hazard also one of physical hazard.
Safety Hazard- Safety hazards are related to the issues which occurred due to not following
safety guidelines.
Ergonomic Hazard- These issues are result of improper design and planning of infrastructure of
manufacturing plant.
There are various laboratory tests and measures can be used to the evaluate the risk of
different agents. For example fire safety test, ignition testing and other failure testing to prevent
critical issues on workplace.
Methods of Monitoring and ensuring Safety on the work place
There are various processes and methods can be used in the organization to track the
safety measures in various operations to prevent major accidents in Tesla Motors. For example
various sensors and surveillance cameras and thermal sensors can be implemented in the
organization to reduce the level of risk in manufacturing plant of Tesla Motors. There are various
techniques also can be implemented in the operations of the company to avoid the hazardous
situation in the company (Verbeek and et.al., 2018) . Technology like Artificial intelligence and
Information can be used in the monitoring process to maintain safety measures on the work
place. track all
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CONCLUSION
This report is concluding the importance of occupational Health and hygiene for the
manufacturing plant of Tesla Motors. Various possible risks in the work place of Tesla Motors
has been analysed in the process. Some process has been studied in the report that can be used by
the company to avoid major risks on the workplace.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Amponsah-Tawiah, K. and Mensah, J., 2016. Occupational health and safety and organizational
commitment: evidence from the Ghanaian mining industry. Safety and health at
work. 7(3). pp.225-230.
Jacobi, S., 2017. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES KNOW SAFETY. Journal: The
Official Publication of the Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association. 36(2).
pp.19-21.
Kim, Y., Park, J. and Park, M., 2016. Creating a culture of prevention in occupational safety and
health practice. Safety and health at work. 7(2). pp.89-96.
Moyce, S.C. and Schenker, M., 2018. Migrant workers and their occupational health and
safety. Annual review of public health. 39. pp.351-365.
Verbeek, J.H. and et.al., 2018. Changes in occupational health and safety service arrangements
for increasing the uptake of preventive services in small companies. The Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018(11).
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