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Nebosh Igc 1
Nebosh Igc 1
1. DEFINATIONS
Budget: Safety Need Money, therefore lack of Assigned Budget for HSE is barrier.
Commitment: Employer & Senior Management Lack of Commitment for Achieving Safety in Organization is barrio.
Complex Workplace: Complicated workplace involving many workers performing different activities.
Conflicting Demands: There could be many conflicting demands imposed to workers like Owner wants to implement QMS/EMS in
org. could cause a barrier.
Behavioral Issues: Good H&S runs with workers good behaviors, workers always not perform in ideal way are a barrier.
Moral: it is moral duty of owner to maintain Safe workplace, plant, SSW and Substance. Example in an accident many workers
injured or killed during work @ w/place, It is morally unacceptable for society, therefore owner must maintain HSE standards.
Legal: ILO-R164 article 10 recommends Employer responsibilities to arrange Safe W/P, Plant, SSW and member bodies countries
passed local laws as legal responsibilities of owner/employer Saudi labor law is an example of Legal Reasons.
Financial: it relates to facts and figures of accidents with direct and indirect costs which are financial reasons for owner to comply
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4. Employer Responsibilities.
5. Accident Costs
Direct Costs: Measurable costs effects direct to organization due accident at workplace like criminal fines, victim compensation,
F/aid treatment, repair costs, product losses and increased insurance premiums.
Indirect Costs: Costs occurs indirectly due accident normally higher by 70% than direct costs to employer like loss of worker moral,
court hospital, investigations man hours loss, cost of remedial actions, new staff hiring and training cost, fine on late product
delivery and loss of organization reputation and image.
ILO C-155/R164 sets certain conventions and recommendation for HSE in organizations.
Local laws been passed by National bodies to meet minimum of ILO and failure to comply employers could face enforced actions
or criminal offences like fines, prisons.
Work related injuries need victim compensations by employers.
7. Worker Responsibilities:
POLICY: A clear statement which describes employer vision and commitment towards safety compliances at all management
levels of organization but especially at CEO/GM levels. Policy has three parts statement of intent- signed by CEO/GM,HSE
Organization with roles, Arrangements as general and specific arrangements.
ORGANIZING: A detailed framework of HSE roles and responsibilities with accountabilities from CEO level to downwards general
worker level including appointment of HSE management and competent specialists of safety.
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING: A detailed Arrangement must be made by employer as GENERAL how organization will
manage safety like R/A, Inspections, Audits, Control Measures with review of process after accident/audits and SPECIFIC- how
employees will comply safety at organization like specific type of procedures, lone working, emergency, safe systems.
EVALUATION: The methods that monitor and review effectiveness of placed arrangements through Proactive and Reactive
Methods like before and after an accident or audit.
ACTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT: During evaluation process of proactive and reactive monitoring, if any short coming been identified
in HSEMS, these must be corrected ASAP by reviewing of policy and arrangements for implementation.
AUDIT: HSEMS must undergo through independent external audit with systematic and critical examination to ensure all parts of
HSMS are working at acceptable level.
CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT: The target that HSMS will not remain static and will progress positively for organization it serves is
called continual improvement.
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GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Carry out R/A
Provide HSE INFO/INST/TRNG.
Accident reporting, recording and investigations.
Consultation with workers.
Develop SSW/PTW to control hazards.
Develop details/list of specific hazards and applied control measures.
Welfare of workers plans.
Emergency procedures and action plans.
Evaluation plans.
Communications with workers.
Health surveillance plans. Health surveillance involves checking the health of individual employees exposed to
specific health risks at work. This is done by looking for adverse changes to their health, which may be caused by
hazardous substances.
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Coordination of Procedures: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and coordinate to prepare agreed
Procedures for Emergency Response. Like shared Emergency Evacuation Route Map and shared evacuation
Procedures.
Shared Risk Assessments & Methods of Statements: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and
coordinate to conduct Shared Risk Assessments and Shared Preventive Actions to be decided.
Shared Facilities: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and coordinate to established shared
Facilities which need to establish in case of shared workplace.
Integrated Safety Awareness Training for workers: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and
coordinate to integrate shared Safety Training syllabus for employees of both organizations.
Joint Safety Committee: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and coordinate to establish a Joint
Safety Committee of workers, they should meet with regular intervals to review safety precautions , Joint Safety
Committee minutes of meeting shall be recorded and shared with both companies employees.
Shared Fire Assembly Points & Shared First Aid Facilities: It is required that both organizations must cooperate and
coordinate to decide for shared Fire assembly points, shared fire wardens nominations and Shared First Aid Facilities
should be established as written Agreement between both organizations.
EXAMPLE: KAIA-Jeddah Airport is an Shared Workplace between four Organizations and Airport is owned by
Regulator GACA (civil aviation) Three Companies Saudi Ground Services/Safari/Fueling Coms/PPMDC-Ports Projects
are sharing workplace. Regulations of Regulator been applied, Three companies shares their Risk Assessments,
Integrated Safety Awareness Training been arranged by Regulator, There are three joint safety committees for
Airside, Terminals and specific Pilgrims Terminal Safety Committee, there are master Emergency Response Plan of
Regulator and all Four Companies have their Specific ERP which are shared through Safety Committees.
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SELECTION OF CONTRACTORS
Copy of HSE POLICY.
Records of R/A.
Competency level of worker qualification matrix.
Maintenance records with p-m plan.
Name of current/previous client.
Accident records/investigations record.
Enforcement action taken against them.
Proof of adequate resources.
Check contractor meet our needs.
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The safety culture of org. is the way how workers thinks & feel about safety and how translates in their behavior.
There is a strong link between safety & HSE performance.
ORG. with positive s/culture having good performance records and vice versa org. with negative s/culture having poor
performance records.
Safety culture of org. can be assessed through performance indicators like accident graphic records, sickness rates, and
absenteeism and worker complaints.
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MORAL- a level of commitment, energy and interest that a worker has about his work.
MOTIVATION- A person drive to achieve goal and develops workers interest towards goal.
GAP-ANALYSIS- a technique in which current situation been assessed and compared with desired situation.
PERCEPTION- A way that a person interprets information by his senses.
Management leadership.
Workers survey.
Group consultation.
Effective communications.
Safety awareness campaigns.
Competency.
Highlight of hazards.
Safety awards.
Effective notice boards.
Use of peers influence.
Safety policy.
Organization charts.
Fire and other ERP.
First aid locations, facilities.
Safe movement area.
Restricted areas.
Incident reporting procedures.
Specific PPE requirements.
Overview of site risk assessment.
Current applied controls.
Driving rules.
HR policy.
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Risk Assessment
Definition- A formalized process of hazards identification, assessing risks and finally eliminating or
controlling to an acceptable level through control measures application and monitoring effectiveness.
Inspections.
Task analysis like SREDIM
Legislations law.
MSDS.
Competent-KATE.
Workers familiar with task & area to be assess.
HSE- specialists.
Technical experts mechanical or electrical.
Line Manager of Area.
Workers Safety Representatives.
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HAZARDS
Certain chemical Agents.
Certain Biological Agents.
Manual Handling.
Working at high floors.
DSE- workstation
Whole body vibration activity.
Exposure to high noise source.
Ionizing Radiations.
Night shifts.
Lone working.
Confined spaces.
Ergonomic violence.
Stress of workload.
CONTROL MEASURES.
Approve Pregnancy Leave to eliminate hazard.
Change work Task.
Reduce working hours.
Eliminate exposure to vibration or noise.
Provide morning shift duty.
Provide Adequate breaks at DSE-workstation.
Eliminate Lone working & confined space assignments.
Ensure exposure to Radiations eliminated.
Eliminate manual handling.
Kept standby Emergency Support like WCHR, F/AID and AMBULANCE.
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INTERNALSOURCES:
Accident records.
Incident records.
Near-miss records.
Absentees records.
Sickness records.
Inspection records.
Risk Assessment records.
Audit reports.
Enforcement action records.
Safety MOM.
Maintenance records.
Contractors reports.
Duty manager daily report.
Safety department shift logs.
Workers feedback box.
EXTERNAL SOURCES:
National labor laws.
International body-ILO.
Material label.
MSDS.
Insurance Reports.
Regional safety magazine.
Trade association reports.
Regulator advisories.
SSW is a formal procedure on systematic exam of work in order to identify specific hazards through
specific developed checklist of specific task.
SSW defines safe work methods by which hazards are eliminated or reduced to minimum acceptable level.
SSW normally developed using SRDIM identification, controlling of hazards by each step of task
considering engineering and behavioral controls.
PEME-Peoples, Equipments, Materials and Environment studies been used to develop SSW.
Permit to work normally been used for SSW implementations.
Do not work inside confined space if it is possible to perform task by other way as it is a high risk area.
If confined space is only choice to perform task than a competent specialist must carry out R/A.
SSW must be developed and implemented through PTW.
Emergency procedures must be in place.
Information, instructions and training must be provided to workforce.
Appropriate PPE must be provided and enforced usage in place.
Safety supervision shall be in place.
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52. DEFINATIONS.
Active Monitoring; It is about checking to ensure that org. Safety Policy Standards are in place and
effective in terms of HS compliances. Unsafe acts and unsafe conditions been eliminated or controlled
to an acceptable level before occurrence of foreseeable event at workplace.
Reactive Monitoring; it is about measuring safety performance by reference to an accident that have
already occurred, developing short term and long term remedial actions development and
implementation in order to eliminate or control underlying root causes to prevent reoccurrence of
accident.
Inspection; It means a scheduled, regular activity with comparison to Safety Policy Performance
standards. It can be applied to statutory, routine, periodic and for pre-use checks by pre-developed
checklist. It can be recorded to provide evidence of inspection.
Safety Sampling; A technique of monitoring safety compliance standards by looking random samples
of workplace as per its spread.
Safety Surveys; A detailed examination of one particular issue or concept to involve workers in safety
measuring like health surveys, task surveys.
Safety Tours; A high profile inspection of workplace carried out by group or team, team members
could be senior management, safety management, line manager. It can be formal or informal.
Fire Safety-Includes EEP, ERP, SIGNS, FIRE EXTINGUSHIERS, FIRE HOSE, FIRE DRILLS.
Housekeeping- general tidiness.
Environmental- lighting, extreme temperatures, noise, vibrations.
Substances Safety- chemical or biological agents
Lone working- procedures, controls.
Confined spaces- procedures, controls.
Hot works- procedures, controls.
Workers welfare- facilities.
PPE- provision and compliance.
First Aid- facilities, equipment, competency of f/aider.
55. AUDIT
A Systematic, Objective, Critical, Planed Evaluation of an Organizations SMS. It has three terminologies;
1. Review of documentations like Policy, organization-roles/responsibilities, planning, Arrangements,
Evaluation system, Actions for Improvement, Internal audits, Continual Improvement.
2. Interviewing of Line Managers and Workers.
3. Direct Observation of workplace activities.
Date/time of accident.
Location/area.
Details of injury.
Details of property loss.
Process of task.
Details of machine/substance.
Details of failures- ppe/noncompliances/law breaches.
Hazards associated with task.
Remedial actions taken.
Witness name/statement.
Name/address/role of injured persons.
Name/position/signature of completing officer.