Occupational safety program

Margaret K. Semakula

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Work place safety program needs to be integrated into
the general operations of the firm/Co./Organization.
The ethics of safety awareness and practices needs to be
cultivated into the daily operations.
There is also need to involve all stakeholders.

The firm as well needs a written policy on safety issues

including hygiene measure and the safe use of PPE. The
policy needs to be well disseminated to all workers.

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First line supervisors should make constant checks
to ensure that the guidelines are adhered to.
It is a multidisciplinary effort, it requires the
interaction of many groups in work environment
and there fore requires a multidisciplinary
steering committees.
This committee establish goals, sets policies,
objectives and activities

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There may also be need for departmental level safety
teams.
The program must encourage participants from the 1st
line supervisors and production workers.
Potential actor include (all levels of management,
program workers, safety directorate, all departments,
etc.).

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The role of first line managers; these must provide the
policy framework for safety in a work place.
Their roles include;
1. A commitment to provide the best possible safety to all
employees.
2. A requirement that all occupational injuries are reported and
investigated.
3. Clear explanations to all employees of their exposures.
4. Regularly schedule systems of safety analyses.
5. Disciplinary procedures for employees who engage in un safe
behavoiur.

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A sensitive and successful program ought to identify and
eliminate all hazards before accidents occur.
The program must examine all the macro and micro work
environments to identify potential sources of exposures
and accidents.
The program ought to study the entire unit of operation
to identify the risk prone processes and individuals most
at risk.

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It should then design strategies to diminish the
potential for occurrence of the risk.
The process involves conducting a system safety
analysis.
Systems safety analysis; is a sub discipline of
safety engineering that is concerned with
occupational safety (processes) analysis.

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The methodologies include job safety analysis.
It includes a team of specialists, workers and even the
design engineer if the job is complex.
Steps in job safety analysis
1. Break the job (small system) into components.
2. Identify possible hazards at each stage.
3. The worker then simulates or walk through each element,
explaining the details and describing the previous accidents or
near misses.

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Certain operations pose high potential risks to workers
and environment or surrounding communities in all their
process.
This is more so in the petroleum industry and the
government usually issues standards for safety;
Develop a written description of potential hazards

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Performing comprehensive analyses to
evaluate the hazards
Formalizing and enforcing safe operating
procedures

Instituting emergency response planning.

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