Occupational Health and Safety

Question 1

4 Tiers of Safety Risk management and how do they relate to duty of care

Answer 1

• Individual/personal risk management system
• Task related safety risk management
• Routine and non-routine safety risk management system
• Non task related
• Enterprise wide risk management

Question 2

4 Classes of health hazards and the four target organ systems for health risks

Answer 2

Biological hazards
- Respiratory and cardiovascular systems

Chemical hazards
-Integumentary system

Physical Hazards
-Nervous and respiratory systems

Psychological hazards
- Endocrine system

Target organs:

• Occupational Respiratory Diseases
• Occupational Skin Diseases
• Occupational Musculo-Skeletal Diseases
• Occupational Hearing Impairment

Question 3

What way are health risks different to safety risks

Answer 3

• Health risks differ from safety risks
• More concerned with diseas and illness caused from a given task
• Safety risk is concerned with immediate hazards and consequences
• Safety risks are related to the immediate consequences while health risks are concerned with on-going consequences

Question 4

Hierarchy of control

Answer 4

Elimination
- Completely eliminating the hazard

Substitution
-Replacing the material or process with a less hazardous one

Engineering or design
- Designing or protective barriers or improving the process design to minimise exposure of people to potentially harmful situations

Administration
- Providing administrative control

Personal Protective Equipment
-Using appropriately fitted equipment where other controls are not practical

Question 5

Safety Case Regime

Answer 5

• Formal document
• Aim to argue the case that an operation is performed with an acceptable level of risk
• Preparation of safety is a regulatory requirement
• Operating with a safety case regime, without the need, considered ‘good practice’