Handout 8 Flashcards
Facility managers must ensure that policy, management and organization, and
safety rules and procedures are well cascaded to their personnel.
Organizational
Facility managers must ensure that health and safety policy, including emergency
procedures, are clearly displayed in the facility of the organization.
Noticeboards
Facility managers must keep an accident book, which will serve as a reference for the most common accidents encountered by the personnel of the organization.
Accident reporting
Facility managers must conduct a general health and safety awareness program through
the help of a specialist.
Training
Facility managers must ensure the availability of an adequate number of first aid personnel during the operations of the facility.
First aid
Facility managers must conduct a fire risk assessment and periodic evacuation drills for their personnel.
Fire precautions
Facility managers must undertake a risk assessment for the facility by evaluating the effect of hazardous substances under relevant legislation.
Statutory risk
Facility managers must periodically examine the facility for physical hazards.
Inspections
Facility managers must periodically inspect the facility for any form of physical hazards.
Work equipment
Facility managers must carry out assessments to determine the requirements of personnel in terms of protective gears and equipment.
Protective equipment
Facility managers must assess the risks of the personnel** involved in visiting other sites** or working outside the consortium of the organization.
Off-site
Facility managers must provide an on-site policy document that all service providers must read and sign as evidence of their awareness of their duties.
Service providers
It involves poor-quality of internal environment such as air quality, light/daylight, temperature, and physical location.
Unsatisfactory working conditions
It involves long working hours, lack of breaks, working weekends, and cancelled holidays
Mental and physical overload from excessive work-related demands
It involves the senior managers who lack
leadership skills and whose actions result in confusion and discord.
Role ambiguity and inconsistency in management style.