OCHS5004: Implementing a Safety Strategy Report - Accident Prevention

This report addresses the critical aspects of accident prevention and safety management within a workplace context. It begins with a definition of hazards and their potential impact on health, safety, and property, emphasizing the importance of hazard identification and risk assessment. The report delves into various types of workplace hazards, including mechanical, chemical, physical, biological, psychosocial, and ergonomic hazards, with a specific focus on chemical hazards and their associated risks. It then outlines strategies for managing safety hazards, such as providing information, training, and establishing procedures, audits, and management reviews. The report also explores factors that can limit the effectiveness of these strategies, including inadequate training, worker ignorance, and reliance on outdated practices. Overall, the report highlights the significance of a proactive approach to safety management to create a safe and healthy work environment, discussing the need for ongoing evaluation and improvement.

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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

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the chemical properties, as it is in the case of corrosive, flammable, oxidising or the explosive
substances (Li et al., 2015).
When any organization is conducting any business or is undertaking it, they have a chief
duty of ensuring, so far as is rationally feasible, which states that the health condition and the
safety of their workers and the other people those who are associated are not kept at any risk
from their production's use, and also storage or handling of the hazardous chemicals they
have been producing (Ramesh et al., 2017).
Strategy to manage hazard
Safety hazard management is one the most operative method that can be used to improve
the safety and security of the workers and the human resource in any of the organization. The
first main strategy in order to manage the safety hazard is to deliver the workers with the
appropriate and necessary amount of information on any safety hazard which stands to be a
risk to the safety of the workers (Kussaga et al., 2017). When the individuals are delivered
with the necessary amount of information regarding their safety and the hazards in their
working environment, they are often observed to take precautions, thus it is seen to be acting
as the first point of defence.
Training:
It is important to manage the chemical hazard condition in a workplace to avoid any
kind of injury and harm to the workers or the surrounding environment, thus it is essential to
provide them with appropriate training regarding the handling and working process with the
chemicals. Also it will be required to educate the workers about the chemicals and every
other details that are associated with these chemicals and their toxicity and sever effects
(Maguire, 2017).

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Procedure:
The chief procedure in to teach the workers regarding the work procedure and
handling of these chemicals, a detailed educational session, training periods, handling,
session and also education regarding the effective outcomes and harms that may also lead to
mortality of the workers. Another process is to generate awareness and confidence related to
the chemicals they are working with (Rasmuson et al., 2015).
Audit:
Some of the safety hazards can be controlled or stopped if only an appropriate audit is
carried out on appropriate time. thus the chemical maintenance department of the
organization should conduct a regular basis audit in order to identify any option of occurrence
of any event that may be hazardous in nature (Hale, Guldenmund & Goossens, 2017).
Management review:
The management review is also an important factor in controlling safety hazards in
the organization. If the workforce in an organization is well-maintained then hazards will also
be controlled, and they will have lesser chances of occurrence with low effect or may be no
effect (Jain, et al., 2018).
The types of factors, pressures, issues or "blockers" that might limit the
effectiveness of your strategy.
The training and the educational strategy is seen to face a numerous amount of challenges
in its efficiency of the controlling hazards in the workplace and organization. Some training
sessions and educational processes are found to be only effective in applying the idea and the
knowledge in practice but they are not effective in distributing the knowledge and awareness
to the other persons (Goh, 2018). Training sessions must not only include teaching or giving
knowledge and information but it should also include the practice of the skills so that the

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individual can understand and recall the knowledge effectively for further work process.
Training the workers requires proper knowledge and better communication skills to deliver
the quality services. If these factor are found to be missing in the training process, the
workers will land up assembling minimum amount of knowledge, thus it will lead to an
ineffective training and teaching of the workers and will end up causing no benefits for the
safety hazard management process (Lee et al., 2016).
Another factor which has been observed to be effecting the safety hazard management
process is the ignorance and irresponsibility which are the causes behind safety hazards and
whose sever effects are not one of those to ignore. Some of the worker and the staffs in
addition having acquired the proper amount of the safety hazard management training, are
found to use their training in very rare cases (Stuart & McEwen, 2015). Some of the
employees in the workplace will also assume and overlook the necessity of wearing the
provided safety gears, by ignoring the compulsion of the hazard safety measures while
working with the harmful and toxic chemicals in their workplace (Sathar et al., 2017).
Availing detailed information regarding the safety hazard to the community on the
indirectness of the workplace is seen to be not adequate enough to control the decreasing
hazards on the individuals walking on the workplace. In a workplace, some of the workers
are careless, ignorant, reckless, and indolent towards their work that they don’t bother even to
go through the instructions or the caution notes and hence they land up overlooking the
significant information and precautions, causing safety hazard (Olewski & Snakard, 2017).
Hazards that has been resulting from recently updated chemicals and toxic substances are
underwritten by the defective self-confidence in their handling the harmful situation
presumptuous the exercise of the worker had developed in the earlier aspects is still found to
be relevant and is applicable hence it ends up presumptuous that these chemicals have same
handling measures (Heo et al., 2018). Some of the workers have been seen to be the reason

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that caused the safety pressures to trusting the capability and also trying to assess the
validation of the services they have been acquiring in the past and they have not used these
services for a longer period of time. Challenging the significance of the services with an
actual condition without any step of going through the training sessions are found to be a
reason which possesses the threat of causing the health and safety threats (Wu et al., 2016).
Some of the maintenance workers also are seen to end up assuming about the efficiency of
the approved and the recommended apparatuses and pieces of guidance for the handling and
usage of the given new chemicals or toxic substances. The workers often end up replacing the
appropriate measures and equipment’s, and also creating condition for the fault or harm
occurrence in the mechanism of handling of the chemicals and the toxic substance in the
workplace (Dorne et al., 2017).
The inquisitiveness of the people in the workers group and the organization members also
serves as a big blocker to the efficiency of the strategies that are used in order to avoid safety
hazard. The people in the workplace or organization might have the interest to the taste or
application of any kind of chemical which may be harmful because of the poisoning nature
and may cost a person’s life (Bharti & Chawla, 2019). It is often possible to find the staff
members or the workers as trying to open the chemical container which are strongly tilted
with diverse inquisitiveness that are subjecting the whole workplace and the organization to
safety and protection risk (Sathar et al., 2017). This interest is often seen to be leading a
person towards violating the rules of the protection and anticipation measures that are
installed and also the training of the people that is given in order to handle the actions of the
organization in a safe manner.

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Strategies in order to minimize the effect
A single mistake by an individual worker, error, dispute or negligence may result in a
safety hazards threat of the workplace or the organizations’ workers or may be the
surrounding environment. These causes behind the safety hazard occurrence can be managed
to reorganize and also it is possible to manage the safety of the workplace or the organization.
In the step towards safety management, the instructor for the safety hazard management of
the organizations’ must have the appropriate idea, qualifications, skills, passion and
competence regarding the hazard precaution (Bharti & Chawla, 2019). Once the organization
witnesses any finding or realizes that the instructor is not competent enough, the safety
hazard management must be substituted by the instructor with a new one who is appropriate
enough to manage and handle such sever conditions (Kim, Cho & Zhang, 2016). The
instructor must require to be firm and straight while the process of delivering the instructor
services without any other assumption (Dorne et al., 2017). The workers and the employees
must be alert and cautious enough to understand the extreme of exposing the workplace and
the organization with the knowledge regarding the hazardous state and must be warned or if
possible be banned from the point of safety and maintenance of the department.
The workplace organiser involve a routine check by the technicians for managing the
tools and equipment’s that are used in the chemical industries in order to avoid any fault or
leakage of the harmful chemicals, and the workers should be trained with the safety measures
and practices that will help them in handling chemicals in a safer manner (Sathar et al.,
2017). They should also be trained regarding the practise of using safety equipment’s such as
mask, gloves and other products while reporting to duties of work in order to minimize and
also eliminate the chances or risk or injury that could take place while working with
chemicals (Olewski & Snakard, 2017).

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Organization head or the supervisors must ensure that their workers or the staffs’
members must never ignore the usage necessity of the wearing process of safety wears
whenever in their place of work. Also, the worker and the staffs must need to conduct
themselves in a way that they don’t put any of the lives in danger or harm the workplace
(Amiri, Ardeshir & Zarandi, 2017). Unawareness and irresponsibility of the worker or the
organization, as well as the needless inquisitiveness needs to be dealt with the appropriate
and strict procedures in order to ensure no safety hazards and safety difficulties the any
organization is exposed to (Kim, Cho & Zhang, 2016).
The workers and the staffs in a chemical industry or any workplace where the work is
conducted using chemicals must be educated regarding the chemicals they are using or
working with, and also the risk associated with the chemical (Rahman, 2016). Lack of
knowledge might lead to increasing chances of safety hazard which will end up effecting the
lives of the workers as well as the other surrounding environment if the chemical is spread
somehow (Ericson, 2015).

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Conclusion
In order to conclude, it can be stated that anything which has a potentiality to create
threat to the workers, whether it is physical or mental, is said to be classified as a workplace
safety hazard. Small workplaces and organizations have a major accountability in reducing or
eliminating the safety hazards on the workplace, even if it requires the shelling out quite a
few of extra dollars in order to ensure the workers' safety and maintain their health.
Addressing the workplace safety hazards necessitates the head to be able enough to recognize
the overall range of the potential risks that relies on the work and also understanding the
detailed definition of the workplace safety hazards which can ensure to the workers and the
organization that they do not error any possible threats. Chemical hazards and the toxic
constituents postures a wider array of the health related hazards which includes sensitization,
irritation and carcinogenicity and also the physical hazards such as the corrosion,
flammability and explicability.
Thus, the safety of an organization’s workers should be one of the major focuses of
the organization. Bad and default safety measures are found to subject the workers to the
health related complication. Hence it underwrites to nonattendance in the duties of work
which thus seen to be reducing the organization's production and hence lower their overall
profit. The government has been providing the regulation to the organizations that workers
must be provided with the safety measures and proper knowledge while they are working. It
is also against the human rights acts to conduct an unfriendly health workforce in any of the
organization; henceforth, the organization lies under the mandate and the accountability to
deliver the workers with all the related information and appropriate material for their own
safety.

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