Recognition of Hazard in Workplace: Risk Management of Hazard Slippery Floor

Learn about the recognition of hazards in the workplace and the importance of risk management for slippery floors. Understand the causes of slips, falls, and trips and discover strategies for preventing them. Explore the steps of risk management, including identifying and assessing risks, and implementing control strategies. Find out how you can play a role in preventing accidents and injuries in the workplace.

Recognition of hazard in work
place risk management of
hazard slippery floor

Introduction
Slips and fall have been the most common issue that causes injury
at work.
There have been many cases of injury due to wet floor and slips.
On an average, there have been 40% of all the major reported
injuries at workplace have been due to fall and slips over wet floor.
This have been creating major issues in the workplace over various
companies worldwide

Slips, trips and falls
 Slips, trips and falls
have been a common
issue that have been
frequently happening in
the many companies.
 These things can occur
during entering into the
office, kitchen, rooms,
loading heavy loads
and various other
places.

Causes of slips, falls and
trips
 A Lack of Safety Awareness
 Unsafe Conditions
 Unsafe Behaviors

Watch your step!
• Slips.
• Trips .
• Falls .

Reducing Slips, Trips and
Falls
 Contaminants
 prevention from floor
contamination have been
one of the best strategies to
prevent or minimize falls.
Slips and trips at workplace

Preventing Slips
Floor surfaces: A wet floor causes slips
and falls at workplace. Therefore, the
rough surfaces of the floor need to be
constructed that increases slip resistance
ability.

Preventing Slips
Cleaning: There have been many traces of
contaminants over the floor.
This causes slips and fall of employees at
workplace.
Therefore, it needs to ensure that cleaning
of floor has been done every day properly
and contaminants are efficiently removed
from the floor.

Preventing Slips
Obstacles and trip hazards
These can be prevented by proper
housekeeping services at workplace,
ensuring smooth floor surfaces and
adequate storage facilities.

Preventing Trips
People and activity: workers need to
maintain their balance during rush hours
at workplace for minimizing slips and falls.
Individuals need to consider their physical
attributes including balance, agility and
vision.

Preventing Trips
Footwear: employees need to use a quality
footwear with proper friction on the
ground.
Footwear design and quality need to be
suitable with the workplace. There have
been need of comfortable footwear with
an adequate slip resistance feature.

Risk management
Identification of risks
The step of the risk management process is
identifying the probable risks in the
workplace where slips and fall might occur.
This can be done by collection information
and feedbacks from workers and
employees at workplace.
Identification of risks help in creating an
idea of minimizing these risks in the
workplace.

Risk management
Assessing risk
The next step is to assess the risks at
workplace due to slip and fall.
Generally, it has been combination of factors
that have been creating risks factors in the
workplace.
Various risk assessment queries have been
created for assessing these factors.

Risk management
Fixing the problem
After the assessment of risk, fixing strategies are required for
minimizing these risks. There have been six categories of risk
control strategies for eliminating or reducing these risks at
workplace.

Risk management
 Monitoring and
reviewing controls
 It becomes
important to
check the control
efficiency on risks.
This can be done
by communicating
with employees
and workers in the
workplace.

Risk management
 The design of the workplace need
to be proper and if required
needed to be redesign
accordingly.
 During fitting out new extensions
of floor, edges of the floor need
to be smooth for preventing any
trips or falls of individuals.

Risk management
 Maintaining the condition of
ramps, floors, and stairs need to
be done properly. It depends on
the way of fall over which impact
of injury might happen.
 Therefore, cleaning and washing
of floors might be taken care.

Risk management
 Training of employee has been an
important point for preventing risk of
slips and falls on the floor.
 All employees and staffs must have
proper understanding about slips and
trips in the workplace.

Risk management
 The awareness of employees
and other staffs in the
workplace has been the best
way to minimize slips and falls
at workplace.

Risk management
 The availability of
first aid at
workplace is
necessary in an
emergency case.

Risk management
 A proper database and
record need to be done
for all dangerous areas
where slips and falls
might occur.

Risk management
 Preventive measures and
sign need to be
implemented at proper
place where sips and
trips may occur.

Your role in Prevention
Make lifestyle decisions that include getting adequate rest, staying
focused on your task and keeping stress under control.
 Stay focused on your task at hand
 Take short breaks to allow for refocusing
 Rest your mind and body
 Manage stress and fatigue

Make Safety a Habit
To stay safe on the job and at home, make safety
part of your daily routine.
 Grip hand rails with all your fingers and thumb
 Look a head when climbing stairs without lifting
our head back. This tends to lean the body
backward.

Safety is Up to You
Preventing accidents and injuries in the workplace involves
teamwork.
Make a commitment to yourself to develop an awareness of
potential hazards.

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