Observing Safety Work Habits in The Workplace

Observing safety work habits in the workplace
How important is it to have safety in the workplace?
Prioritizing workplace safety shows care about their health and well-being. It enables a
safeguard of its workers/learners against a wide range of workplace dangers and ensures the
learners get the support they need to protect themselves against risk.
Health and safety risks can be managed.
1. Identify the hazards

2. Assess the risk
3. Control the risk
4. Monitor safety.
 Safety training
Education and training are important tools for informing learners about workplace hazards so
they can work safely and avoid creating hazards that could place them to risk.
 Safety procedures in the workplace
Staying healthy and safe at work is important. No matter what your job. It is important to
reduce the risks of injury at work.
 Understand the risk. Once you know the particular hazards of your job or workplace,
you can take steps to reduce the risk of a work-related injury.
 Reduce workplace stress. Common causes include long working hours, heavy work,
sleeping problems cause un proper and un focus while working.
 Take regular breaks. Staying fresh and alert will help you to avoid injury or burnout.
 Avoid stooping or twisting. Arrange your workplace so that everything you need is
within easy reach.
 Protect yourself. Ask for help from your partner instead to carry heavy loads.
 Wear PPEs. If worn correctly will reduce your risk of injury.
 Ask your superior/teacher. Always ask something if you do not know what to do.
Pre-use Inspection and Checking Procedures

Safety and health inspection is a central part of most safety, health, and environmental
protection programs, such practices are a reliable way of identifying and eliminating conditions that
could contribute to accidents, illnesses, or environmental damage.
Safety inspection is a tool in the prevention of accidents. If regular inspection of existing

potentially unsafe conditions are not done, accidents in the workplace are likely to happen.
Elements of Effective Safety and Health Inspection Programs
An effective safety and health inspection program requires the following:

1. Sound knowledge of the facility. Familiarity with the facilities of the establishment is an effective
tool in determining whether things are to be inspected and how often these things should be inspected.
2. Knowledge of relevant standards, regulations, and codes. The reference of all safety and health rules
and regulations of the company should always be the established local legislations and codes. These
standard regulations will be our guide in assessing whether our workplace is safe or not.
3. Systematic inspection system. In occupational safety and health, time is very important. An
established inspection system will facilitate inspection activities and will allow the designated safety
inspector to improve the workplace based on identified hazards as early as possible.
4. Method of reporting, evaluating, and using the data. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the program
is a must to determine whether a program is a success or a failure. Inspection should be documented.
Reports prepared and submitted and other safety and health data are vital in evaluating the program.
Safety and Health Inspection Cycle
1. Purpose
The primary purpose of the inspection is to detect potential hazards so they can be corrected before an
accident occurs.
2. Inspection Priorities
Who will conduct the inspection?
a. Safety professionals. They spearhead the inspection activity
b. Company or facility management.
c. First–line Supervisors or Foreman. Continually monitoring the workplace.
d. Employees. They inspect the workplace and any tools, equipment, and machinery that will be used.
e. Maintenance personnel. He is responsible for locating and correcting hazards.
f. Joint Safety and Health Committee. It conducts regular inspections as part of its functions.
Items to be inspected are as follows;

a. Environmental factors
b. Hazardous supplies and materials
c. Production and related equipment
d. Power source equipment
e. Electrical equipment
f. Hand tools
g. Personal Protective Equipment
h. Personal service and first aid facilities
i. Fire protection and emergency response equipment
j. Walkways and roadways
k. Elevators, electric stairways, and man-lift
l. Working surfaces
m. Materials handling equipment
n. Transport equipment
o. Warning and signaling devices
p. Containers
q. Storage facilities and area both indoor and outdoor
r. Structural openings
s. Building and structures
t. Miscellaneous
.
3. Schedule of Evaluation
Inspection can be classified as one of two types – continuous or interval inspection, which should be
discussed each using the key points such as the following:
a. Continuous Inspection It involves noting apparently or potentially hazardous conditions or unsafe
procedures that need to be corrected immediately or reported at once to initiate corrective action
b. Interval Inspection
Planned inspections at specific intervals are what most people regard as “real” safety and health
inspections.
4. Conducting Inspection
In conducting an inspection, some of the general considerations are the following;
- Must not interrupt normal operations
- Review all accidents and previous inspection reports made.
- Awareness of any potential hazards
- Wearing of Personal Protective Equipment
- Formulation of checklist
Reporting and Recording

Checklists serve as reminders of what to look for and as records of what has been covered. They can
be used to structure and guide inspection. Good checklists also help in follow-up work to make sure
hazards have been corrected or eliminated.
Inspection Report – Every inspection must be documented in a clearly written inspection report
furnished by the inspector.
Inspection reports are usually of three types:

1. Emergency – made without delay when a critical or catastrophic hazard is
probable.
2. Periodic – covers those unsatisfactory non-emergency conditions observed
during the planned periodic inspection. This report should be made within 24
hours of the inspection.
3. Summary – lists of all items of previous periodic reports for a given time.
5. Implementation
Upon implementation of the inspection report, make sure that recommendations proposed by the
inspector will be given priority depending on the hazards found in the area.
In making recommendations, inspectors should be guided by four (4) rules:
1. Correct the cause whenever possible. If all the resources needed to correct the cause are already
available, improve the working condition.
2. Immediately correct everything possible. All possible causes of accidents should be corrected at
once to prevent their recurrence.
3. Report conditions beyond one’s authority and suggest solutions. Safety is everybody’s job. Anyone
should be involved in the prevention of accidents.
4. Take intermediate action as needed. Time is essence as far as safety is
concern.
6. Monitoring
Monitoring is a management prerogative. Management must realize that employees are keenly
interested in the attention paid to correcting faulty conditions and hazardous procedures.

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Observing safety work habits in the workplace

How important is it to have safety in the workplace?

Health and safety risks can be managed.

1. Identify the hazards

 Safety procedures in the workplace

 Wear PPEs. If worn correctly will reduce your risk of injury.

Pre-use Inspection and Checking Procedures

Safety inspection is a tool in the prevention of accidents. If regular inspection of existing

Elements of Effective Safety and Health Inspection Programs

An effective safety and health inspection program requires the following:

Safety and Health Inspection Cycle

Items to be inspected are as follows;

Reporting and Recording

Inspection reports are usually of three types:

In making recommendations, inspectors should be guided by four (4) rules:

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