Reflective Report on Occupational Health and Safety

Running head: OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
REFLECTIVE REPORT ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Marine and offshore hazards...............................................................................................2
Health and safe environment in the construction industry..................................................4
Safety training in hazardous industries................................................................................6
Beyond the limit of HSE profession....................................................................................7
High-risk working environment..........................................................................................9
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Health and Safety Management System or HSMS is the systematic approach used by the
organizational heads to minimize the number of injuries and illness within an organization. The
system is inclusive of identification, assessment as well as controlling of the risk factors that
have the ability to harm the workers at the workplace operations. There are four determinants of
workplace occupational health and safety such as the safety policy, the safety risk management
policy, and assurance protocol and safety promotion. The primary role of this aspect is to search
and implement strategies to eliminate the potential hazards present in the working environment.
For this purpose, the organizations utilize housekeeping measures and routine maintenance
strategies so that health and safety condition can be maintained. While delving through the topic,
I went through several aspects of occupational health and safety applied to a different type of
working environments. These include the marine and offshore hazards, health and safety in the
construction industry, aspects of the high-risk working environment, training process related to
hazardous industries and limits of the health and safety profession. In this reflective report I will
aim to discuss about all of these five topics with the description of my experiences as well as the
situation of learning. Further I will also discuss the topics which I would learn differently if I
enroll in the course again. Moreover, my expectations, knowledge, perception and beliefs
regarding the topic will answer in this reflective report writing.
Marine and offshore hazards
The marine and offshore hazards and their management techniques were one of those
chapters I was very keen to learn about. I was aware of this topic as recently the Singapore
government implemented Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) 2018 in the marine sector of

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Singapore. The government aims to provide a progressive and pervasive culture to the marine
sector of the country. Hence, while starting this chapter I thought I was aware of the importance
of the WSH practices in marine and offshore working environments. However, I expected to
learn about several details of major incidences with an example to understand the disastrous
nature of offshore incidences. Further, I was expecting to know about the different type of
hazards present in such industries that leads to such major hazardous incidences. It has helped
me to learn about the several means of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon hazards that can lead
to major marine and offshore incidences. Such as gas dispersion, fire or explosion (Hydrocarbon)
and different transportation-related accidents, the collision of ships, accidents during
occupational functions (non-hydrocarbon) and so on. These details helped me to understand the
importance of SIL target levels, safety integrity level studies, and quantifying risks and risk
matrix to determine the level of hazardous risk in marine and offshore related workplace. This
idea will be useful for me to acquire in any such industry as I will be aware of the hazardous
materials and the extent of their disastrous nature.
However I did not found any difference of hazardous risks, risk reduction and control
measures of different industries. This is because all the industries mark hydrocarbon and related
materials as potential hazards and implement control measures as risk reduction strategy.
Further, the knowledge of construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and their risk
management and control measures helped me to identify the difference between risks and
associated incidences that can affect the workplace environment. However, if I was given a
chance to restart the course, I would focus more on the risk matrix and noise level contour and
their usage in risk reduction for marine and offshore industries. This risk matrix is important as
using this, the level of risk, the probability of its occurrence and the consequences of its severity