G8- Safety Inspection Flashcards
is an important step in averting accidents by identifying and reporting existing and potential hazardous conditions in workplaces, including construction sites
Health and Safety Inspection
Crucial for maintaining a safe working environment, preventing accidents, and ensuring compliance with legal and industry standards.
Health and Safety Inspection
What are the key reasons of health and safety inspection?
- Prevent Accidents and Injuries
- Ensure Compliance with Regulations
- Increase Productivity and Efficiency
- Protect Workers’ Well-being
- Minimize Financial Losses
What are the risk and hazards in health and safety inspection?
- Working at Heights
- Moving Objects
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Noise
- Hand-arm Vibration Syndrome
- Material Handling
- Excavations
- Asbestos
- Electricity
- Airborne Materials
- Site Security
What are the safety precautions when working at heights?
Wearing of safety harness, providing safety net, and provide scaffold.
To reduce the risk of moving objects, workers should?
Wear hard hat and high visibility jacket, never stand behind machines, never stand under suspended loads, avoid working close to moving objects, and have a banksman.
guide the vehicles in the construction site.
Banksman
What causes slip and trips?
uneven terrain and weather disturbances
must effectively manage the site to avoid the risk of injuring the workers, risks should always be reported and sorted.
Site Supervisors
To reduce harm in slips, trips, and falls, one should?
Provide obstruction-free operatives, Keep work areas tidy, put stones on slippery surface, signpost slippery surface, and wear good footwear with good grip.
Can cause long term hearing problems, such as deafness.
Noise
Workers working with equipment and machineries must wear
hearing protection
must be carried out where the risk assessment has highlighted a noise hazard with the works to be undertaken.
Comprehensive Noise Risk Assessment
Is a debilitating and painful disease of the blood vessels, nerves, and joints caused by the continued use of hand held power tools (vibratory and ground)
Hand-arm Vibration Syndrome
carries a degree of risk whether manually or by equipment.
Material handling
training must be provided to ensure safety
Manual Handling
there are a lot of risks especially when operating on uneven ground. Employees must be trained to operate safely.
Lifting Equipment Handling
Safety measures for excavations are:
ensure an excavation is supported and fully secure, regularly inspect, Edge protection must be 100% intact, and maintain a safe distance.
is banned in the Philippines, however, the use of white (chrysotile) asbestos is still being used in roofing materials and friction.
asbestos
White Asbestos
Chrysotile
When damaged, it releases these fibers into the air, and once inhaled, it causes severe and fatal disease such as lung cancer.
Asbestos
Accidents from this are caused from contact with overload or underground power cables.
Electricity
To lessen risk in electricity, stay at least ____________ from overhead power lines.
10 feet away
happens when excavation is undertaken without checking the ground for existing services and can be avoided by using technology such as CAT and genny scanning.
Strike
A lot of dust is produced on construction sites that is often an invisible, fine, and toxic mixture of hazardous materials and fibers which can damage the lungs of the workers.
Airborne Materials
may cause danger to the public and lead to an unnecessary accident.
Inadequate Security
of equipment and workplace facilities are mandatory to prevent accidents.
Regular inspection and maintenance
must be installed in the workplace, to warn from potential hazards.
Safety signs and warning devices
“GUIDELINES GOVERNING OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY”
DEPT. ORDER N0.13, SERIES OF 1998
are a set of guidelines, rules, and regulations designed to insure the health, safety and welfare of workers in the workplace.
OSH Standards
adheres to the rules and relevant orders and directives from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Construction Safety and Health Program
is responsible for compliance. If unavailable, the _______________ assumes this role.
Construction Project Manager, Project Manager
What are the key components in Construction Safety and Health Program?
- Safety Committee Formation
- Safety Policies
- Working Training
- Waste Disposal
What are the Occupational Safety and Health Requirements?
- The OSH Program and CSHP must be submitted to DOLE for approval.
- Requires OSH personnel
- Health facilities
- Employee Compensation Claims
- OSH Reports
A regular and critical examination of project sites, safety programs, records, and management performance on program standards on safety and health
Safety and Health Audit
Who conducts the safety and health audit?
Safety Officer
What are the phases of safety Audit?
- Preparing for the Audit
- Conducting the Audit
- Data Analysis
- Taking Corrective and Preventive Actions
- Publishing the Results
Employers are required to provide a safe workplace and comply with DOLE’s OSH standards.
Republic Act No. 11058 (Occupational Safety and Health Standards Act)
General provisions on liability, including employer liability for negligence that results in workplace accidents.
Republic Act No. 386 (Civil Code of the Philippines)
Provides compensation for employees who suffer work-related injuries, illnesses, or death.
Republic Act No. 772 (Employee Compensation and State Insurance Fund)
Why is there a need for a prompt action when
safety issues are identified during inspections?
It could lead to more accidents and injuries and it reflects the company’s seriousness.
Why are documentation essential for safety
inspections?
It serves as evidence that hazards did occur and were identified
Can be utilized when legal compliance happens
Can help monitor and track the progress
What are the examples of documentation essential for safety inspections?
- Checklist
- Photographs or Pictures
- Written Reports of Incidents
- Statistical Data
