PRESENTED By:

AJATSHATRU SHARMA
ANITA SHARMA
SAKSHI ARORA
MBA 3rd Sem

Industrial safety is primarily a

management
activity
which
is
concerned with
Reducing
Controlling
Eliminating hazards from the industries
or industrial units.

Significance of Industrial Safety

Industrial causes a great loss to both the

Employer & Employee, thats it is having
importance
Cost of compensation
Cost of medical-aid
Cost of training a new worker
Cost of the lost time
Cost of investigation
Cost of supervision & inspections
Cost to the Govt. in terms of factory
inspectors, & public health services

Contd.

Cost
Cost
Cost
Cost
Cost

of spoilage of materials
of the damage of machinery
of cost of wages payble during injury
of loss of morale; &
of loss to the worker and his family

To prevent accidents in the plant by reducing the hazard to minimum.

To eliminate accident caused work stoppage and lost production.

To achieve lower workmens compensation, insurance rates and reduce

all other direct and indirect costs of accidents.

To prevent loss of life, permanent disability and the loss of income of

worker by eliminating causes of accidents.
To evaluate employees morale by promoting safe work place and good
working condition

To educate all members of the organization in continuous state of safety

mindless and to make supervision competent and intensely safety
minded.

Measurement & Records of

Accidents

Two main ratios used to measure accidents are

1. Accident Frequency Rate

2. Accident Severity Rate

AFC = No. of injuries * 10,00,000/ Total no.

of man hours worked

ASR = no. of man day lost * 10,00,000/Total

no. of man hours worked

Causes of Industrial Accidents

1. Unsafe conditions

a. The job itself

b. Work schedules
c. Psychological conditions
d. Machinery & Equipment

2. Unsafe Acts

3. Miscellaneous Causes

1. Safety Policy
2. Safety Committee
Measures to ensure
3. Safety Engineering

Industrial Safety

a. Guarding of machinery

b. Material handling equipment

c. Safety devices

d. Ergonomics

e. Plan maintenance

f. General house keeping

4. Safety Education & Training

5. Role of Government

Engineering: i.e. safety at the design, equipment installation

stage.

Education: i.e. education of employees in safe practices.

Enlistment: i.e. it concerns the attitude of the employees and

management towards the programmed and its purpose. This
necessary arose the interest of employees in accident
prevention and safety consciousness.

Encouragement: i.e. to enforce adherence to safe rules and

practices.

Safety audit
A safety audit subjects each area of a companys activity to a
systematic critical examination with the object of minimizing
loss.

Safety surveyA safety survey is a detailed examination in depth of a narrower

field of activity.

Safety inspectionA routine scheduled inspection of a unit or department, which

may be
carried out by someone ( may be a safety representative ) from
within the unit, possibly
accompanied by the safety advisor. The inspection would check
maintenance standards,

21 - Fencing of machinery
22 - Work on or near machinery in motion
23 - Employment of young persons on dangerous
machines.
24 - Striking gear and devices for cutting off power
25 - Self-acting machines
26 - Casing of new machinery
27 - Prohibition of employment of women and children
near cotton-openers
28 - Hoists and lifts
29 - Lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles
30 - Revolving machinery
31 - Pressure plant

32 - Floors, stairs and means of access

33 - Pits, sumps openings in floors, etc
34 - Excessive weights
35 - Protection of eyes.
36 - Precautions against dangerous fumes, gases
36A - Precautions regarding the use of portable electric light.
37 - Explosive or inflammable dust, gas, etc
38 - Precautions in case of fire
39 - Power to require specifications of defective parts or tests
of stability
40 - Safety of buildings and machinery
40A - Maintenance of buildings
40B - Safety Officers
41 - Power to make rules to supplement this Chapter

Stipulate a national minimum wage to give people dignity.

Institute a comprehensive social security legislation

covering unemployment, health insurance, old age
pension, disability and regulation of employment for all
workers.

Ensure gainful rehabilitation in terms of alternate land,

livelihood, shelter, and all basic necessities concerning
health, education and connectivity for all people displaced
by development projects, closures, lockouts, relocation,
man-made and natural disaster.

Institute employment guarantee for urban and rural areas

throughout the year with separate cards for women and
for all adults who demand employment.

Introduce special programs to impart training and

entrepreneurial skills, capital and credit facilities without
collateral and market support to women-headed
households and all women.

Enforce existing labour laws in special economic zones,

export promotion zones and free trade zones.

Ensure full-time wage work for poor women and skill and
entrepreneurship training for self employed women.

Govt. schemes for women must ensure equal pay even if the task
are not same.

Crches must be provided for all womens.

Minimum wages for women in the informal sector and domestic

work.

Equal wages and occupational safety for women construction

workers.

Work related schemes should be based on market trends.

All workers in all sectors should be given identity cards.