PART B Flashcards
Cooperation between management and workers or their representatives within an enterprise is an essential element of prevention of accidents and diseases at the workplace.
Workers’ Participation
Has been identified as a key precondition of successful OSH management and a major contributing factor in the reduction of occupational diseases and injuries
Workers’ Participation
Is an essential element in maintaining a healthy and safe workplace and has been an integral components of OSH management for many years
Training
Must stimulate awareness, impart knowledge and help recipients to adapt to their own roles
Training
Management Responsibilities in OSH Training:
- Give each worker practical and appropriate ______, taking account of his or her skills and professional experience;
- Provide training involving the _________ __ _____ and know-how to be applied in a specific job and corresponding to the qualifications required;
- Give refresher _____ to update the knowledge acquired through training;
- Provide further _____;
instruction;
acquisition of knowledge;
courses;
training
Control of occupational hazards and diseases require adequate organizational measures
Organizational Aspects
______ should be the guiding principle, and a step-by-step approach is likely to be more successful than an ______ scheme that does not allow for subsequent adjustment
Moderation;
overambitious
The first step is to establish ______among objectives by assessing the main factors contributing to the hazards with the most severe consequences
priorities
____ _____ may also be allocated to actions that will produce rapid results.
Priorities may change from time to time, depending on the existing situation
High priority
Core OSH Principles:
1. All workers have rights
- Work should take place in a ___ and ____ working environment
- Conditions of work should be ____ with workers’ well-being and human
dignity - Work should offer real _____ for personal achievement, self fulfillment and service to society.
safe; healthy
consistent;
possibilities
Core OSH Principles:
- Occupational safety and health ____ must be established
policies
Core OSH Principles:
- A national ____ for occupational safety and health must be established
system
Core OSH Principles:
- A national ______ on occupational safety and health must be formulated
programme
Core OSH Principles:
- Social partners and other stakeholders must be _____
consulted
Core OSH Principles:
- Occupational safety and health programmes and policies must aim at both ______ and _____
prevention; protection
Core OSH Principles:
- ______ is vital for the development and implementation of effective programmes and policies
Information
Core OSH Principles:
- ______ promotion is a central element of occupational health practice
Health
Core OSH Principles:
- Occupational health _____ covering all workers should be established
services
Core OSH Principles:
- ________, ________and ______ services must be made available to workers who suffer occupational injuries, accidents and work-related diseases
Compensation; rehabilitation; curative
Core OSH Principles:
- Continuous _______ of occupational safety and health must be promoted
improvement
Is the science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace conditions that may cause workers’ injury or illness
Industrial Hygiene
5 Elements of Industrial Hygiene
- Anticipation
- Recognition of WE Hazards
- Evaluation
- Monitoring Method
- Control Measures
Element of Industrial Hygiene
a. Review of ______ risk
b. Review of _____
c. Review of chemical and physical _____
d. Review of work ______ and work conditions
Anticipation
potential;
chemicals;
characteristics;
practices
Element of Industrial Hygiene
a. Industry/Process/ Materials/Environment
b. Identification of workplace health hazards
Recognition of WE Hazards (work environment)
