Expert Guide to : unsafe act and unsafe conditions with examples

Unsafe act and unsafe conditions – experts Guide

When it comes to workplace safety " The unsafe act and unsafe conditions" are playing a critical role in
the number of accidents.

There are thousands of definitions and examples for the unsafe act and unsafe conditions, that available
on the Internet.

I Knew, that you are curious and looking for some of the reliable information which you can believe
without any doubts.

If You are the curious safety learner, looking for the simple guidance on "Unsafe act and unsafe
conditions"

"The Statistics says 80 % Industrial accidents are caused wholly or partially by the human error"

The Accidents are occurring by a number of reasons, however Irrespective of the type of accidents,
there is a range of unsafe actions and unsafe conditions that exist behind every incident that occurs in
the workplace.

For Example :

Imagine the road accident that occurs in day to day situation.

Do the accidents occurs without any reasons behind,

Nope,

If You think little, You will find there are certain unsafe activities of the driver and unsafe conditions (Of
the road or vehicle) that caused the accidents,

Simply,

Unsafe activities are the actions of the person, which is possible or certainly leads to accidents or
increase the risk of accidents.
Unsafe conditions are the condition of equipment or environment that is considered to be unsafe and
possibly leads to an accident in a workplace.

You Can find the detailed explanations with examples below :

It’s not a big deal to know the difference between unsafe act and unsafe condition, but if you are
looking for a carrier towards health and safety profession, you should be familiar with,

The Difference between unsafe act and unsafe conditions are quite easy, simply it can be understood by
their phrase itself,

Unsafe act:

Any activity or way of performing the task, which should be considered us unsafe and possibly which
may increase the chances of accidents occur, and there is a chance to results in an injury to the
employees, damage to the equipment’s and to the environment where the work to be carried out.

For example:

Everyone is having an experience in driving a bike, here with this scenario some of the unsafe acts are,

Driving a bike which is found to be faulty

Driving a bike without suitable competence and training

Driving a bike without following traffic codes

Driving a bike with harsh speed

Driving a bike without bike

Turning without using indicators

Riding a bike without using helmet

Riding the bike without headlamp

Riding a bike in a slope with increase speed

Parking an bike in a sloping and unstable ground

Parking an bike in a way which obscures the emergency exits

If you are looking for a concept of unsafe act with workplace examples here you can see,

Operating an equipment without competence

Operating a machine, which is found to be faulty

Removing the safety devices such as machine guard

Operating a machine with over speed beyond safe limit

Unsafe conditions

Mostly the unsafe conditions arise from unsafe activity, to understand the concept of unsafe condition
first we should know the definition of unsafe conditions,

Definition of unsafe conditions:

Any situation or condition (physical, chemical Mechanical, biological, electrical, environmental) which
increases both the probability of accidents occurring and the severity of accidents if occur.

And possibly any condition or situation which may lead to,

Injury to employees

Damage to equipment’s

Damage to environment Example: Polluting effects

With the same example of “driving a bike” we shall see some examples of unsafe conditions,

Bike without brake

Bike without rear mirror

Missing of rear mirror in the bike

Adverse weather conditions while driving (Ex: Rain)

Blind corners exist in a road

Pit holes, changes in surface levels (which is not highlighted), steep gradients in the road
Lack of speed governor to control speed

Bike without indicators

The bike stands on loose soil

The obscured emergency exit with the parked bike etc.

If you are looking for unsafe condition examples here you can see,

The Damaged electrical insulation in wires

Machine without guard

Spillage of oil in the walkway

The blocked or locked emergency exit

The improper storage of flammable chemicals in direct sunlight

The expired fire extinguisher

The machine producing excessive noise

The stagnant water which produces fungi, bacteria etc.

Excessive lighting which produces glare in the workplace

The Conclusion is that

The unsafe activity is related to the way of doing the task,

The unsafe conditions are related to the equipment’s, environment, situation exist during the task.
11 Signs,you are going to be an Great Safety Expert

Great, You have proved your Intention to becoming an expert and That's the prime to becoming an
expert.

Now a Days,most of the professionals and students from different academic background were starting
their career into an Health and Safety Field.

Starting an Career and Getting an Job with satisfied income, is not mean that you have owned your life
and you have achieved the things you have expected.

Normally the people tend to underestimate them, and we never realize the things we have learned
already and their Importance.

Over the past few years, I Got trained, Given a training's, Discussed with a bundle of HSE Professionals, I
blogged , Chatted with the friends and Listened on various social medias and finally i realized something,
that most of the HSE Professionals they Knew a lot compared to what they think they are,

So, Here i have listed you the "11 Great Signs, you are Going to be an Safety Expert"

You are a Goose ?

Yes, The Real safety Professionals will never tend to be overconfident on their existing knowledge, and
even if they are experienced a lot, they tend to read , ask and update on an regular manner.

They will ask and seek advice, when they are not familiar with something, they do knew their limitations
of skills.

They will never hesitate to be an goose for an moment rather than to be an goose forever.

You Believe:

The Real safety Experts will believe that irrespective of the situations in the company / Industry , all the
accidents are preventable and even they do every actions with full trust on them.
They never doubt / complain their situation / Company / Environment they are into.

You "Break the ICE "

If you are a person, wish to initiate the things without any fear and if you are into an HSE Profession,
than No doubt you are meant to be an Safety expert.

Achieving something into health and safety is not like running an old music and lyrics, that requires the
great initiation and leadership to advise, assist and safeguard others.

You are Hungrier?

If you are never overfilled and reading everything you find in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn related
to safety, Probably by now or at least in a year you will know 60% of information, what the average
professionals will not Knew.

If You are Hungrier always, than i can assure you that you will be.

You Do have More Credentials:

The Successful people in any field, are crazy on reading and updating themselves with the information's,
Even i have experienced with the professionals, who were appearing for an exam and undertaking an
courses even after their 60.

Safety Experts will never shout that they are experts and Instead they will prove by taking authority
credentials like NEBOSH Diploma , CSP etc.

You Can Demonstrate Your Expertise:

The Safety experts will never hide their expertise and they never wait for proving so, also they do never
read and leave the things as it is.

Instead they will apply and try out the superb controls for the real time issues at the workplace.

If You are more curious on applying new safety strategies in the workplace, than No doubt you are an
expert.

You love Critics:

Being into an HSE Field, from safety officers to the safety managers everyone should come after the
thousands of critics every day.
Even You may experienced the critics from the subordinates and workers.

The Real safety experts knows, the critics are the way of communication of issues and it will show the
way of changing strategies too.

They will never get hurt-ted by the critics and they won't take it personally, Instead they will analyse ,
find out and raise up.

If you love critics and you have faced enough things, You mean't to be an expert Now.

You Never Trust on PPE :

The PPE will never prevent an accidents and even in cases they lead to accidents (Simply like an helmet
hiding an rear &side views) .

The Real safety experts will never consider the PPE as prime for controlling risks instead they will check
for more effective options.

You believe "Workers are the King"

Till the shop floor employees realize the importance of safety, the accidents will never get prevented,
the real safety experts will understand a lot and device more strategies to influence the workers
behavior.

They will never show an authority to their workers and Experts will make them to realize "They are their
own assets"

You are Passionate :

The Successful people will never get satisfied by an income and all those peoples who succeeded are did
with Passion.

The Passionate people will love their field. and they do everything for only their internal Satisfaction and
they will feel refreshed when ever learning a new tip / strategy.

If you do same, the you may probably guessed who you are ?

Conclusion : If you do have Two or more qualities above mentioned, you meant to be an Safety
Expert.
What is tools box talk - Experts Guide

What is tools Box talk ?

If you are an fresher , Or newly entering into an safety field ,or else you wanna grow up your
knowledge in to safety field , You shall grow up from here,

Simply , An Informal meeting conducted by an responsible person, mostly supervisor or foremen to an

workers before they are commencing their work in a workplace.

To ensure the tools box talks are effective it should be given in a everyday basis, and should be
conducted in a work site itself.

Normally it lost for 10 - 15 minutes alone.

Who should Provide Tools Box ?

There is no Fixed responsible persons to provide tools box training, but the important issue is that, the
person giving a tools box talk should be familiar with the,

Task - Activity which Going to be done

The hazards & risks involved in the activity
The Safe Precautions to be followed
Either it can be given by the person nominated to control the work and workers (supervisor) or safety
practitioners.

What the Tools box talk will cover ?

Simply , the tools box talk is to ensure that the workers are refreshed with the safety precautions and
safe behavior to be adopted and they are familiar with.

So the toolbox talk should cover the following details such as, the nature of job , hazards and
precautions involved in the job,the safety precautions to be adopted, safe use of tools & equipments
involved if necessary and the necessary PPE.

When the Tools Box training Should be Provided ?

The Tools box training should be provided in a every day basis to the workers, before they are starting
the work in the workplace.
But remember, If there is any changes in the job or the workplace again the tools box training should
be provided to manage additional and increased risk.

The Same Job continuing for the Next day , should i provide tools box training again ?

Yes , the tools box should be provided again , because of the uncertainty of conditions exist in the
workplace .

For example, though the same excavation is going to be done in a next day , the bad weather like rain
in a night or non-working hours will have an impact on the stability of excavation , also the workers
will know that they should follow safety , irrespective of problems they are facing psychologically in a
number of reasons Ex:Personal issues , family problems , etc.
What is Safety? Guide Explains all

As Per ILO

Every 15 Seconds, a worker dies from a work related accident or Disease

Every 15 seconds, 153 workers have a work related accident

Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work related diseases - more than
2.3 million deaths per year.

317 million accidents occur on the job annually; many more of these resulting in extending absences
from work.

What Does it really mean ???? The Workplace is not at all safe and Capable of causing a fatality.

Every Day, the technology and inventions are growing like anything, that's awesome but mean time
the rate of accident and disease potential also increasing.

Wiki Pedia defines safety as

State of Being "safe", the Condition of being protected from harm, and other non-desirable outcomes.

Let me explain you in a clear way,

Scenario 1: You Employed in an Industry as Employee
There are only two options either you have to do business or getting employed in a company, by bad
luck you do not have enough time, money, potential to do the business.

and

In order to feed your family, you have joined a company as a laborer and your daily routine is to work
with a hazardous equipment's, chemicals and highly noisy atmosphere.

The Owner of your company only needs an business and profit, irrespective of your life and health.
 One Bad moment, the accident has happened and you lost your
hands or suffered a severe injury that results in permanent disability.

What will Happen?

The Current employer fired you out, and No other companies will hire you!

There is no way of generating income because all you know about is working hard, of course, that
requires good physical fitness.
 You Cannot Generate an income
 You cannot feed your family
 You Cannot pay home rentals
 You cannot pay for your son's schooling's
 You cannot live a quality life, which your neighbors are having with

The Message is "Safety is not only a part of job or slogan that insisted by stupid fellows, Its the way of
life and the incredible thing that keeps you alive"

Scenario 2: You are Establishing an Industry ( and You are an Owner)

You are establishing an Own industry for manufacturing of pump and Of course, you require an
employees and equipment's and established industrial space in order to manufacture an pump.

You have employed 10 Employees and Purchased certain equipment's and the process started.

The Business Grows and you have started manufacturing products.

The employees are working harder and You are generating a huge income from their efforts, hence
there are certain investments which you cannot ignore (Apart from staff pay & Purchase of
equipment's) like maintenance, Inspection, and Provision of training to your employees about "How
to operate the machines safely".

Blindly You Ignored an "Additional Costs like training, maintenance and Inspection" and day moves.
What would be the result????

Of course, the machines will not be safe and the staffs will not be familiar with the way of operating
it?

That results in accidents and Ill health (By the lack of training and by the excessive amount of noise
and vibration, heat, dust) generated from the process.

When the accident occurs, for sure it may result in severe damage to your equipment's an injury to
your employees.

As an Owner you have to bear equipment repair costs, breakdown maintenance costs, replacement
costs, first aid costs, the cost resulting from a loss of production etc.

As per the legal requirement and as an employer or owner, you are responsible for the injury
sustained and the loss caused to an employee.

Every Government are having their own "Worker Compensation Act / Regulation" that require you to
pay compensation to an injured employee, also the government authorities will place a fine, warnings
on your company, and In some cases, it can extend to selling your company too.!

What would be the out come ??? You have to close your company, loss your brand name before you
are stabilizing your business.

For definition "State of being protected is easy" but achieving them require huge efforts,
technological options and thousands of strategies.

Like,

 Appointing Safety Officers (Who Knows Safety well)

 Purchase of Safe Equipment's (Manufactured under legal requirements)
 Recruiting Experienced Professionals
 Training
 Inspection
 Maintenance
 Installing Safety devices
 Control of Noise
 Control vibration
 Control of violence and Misuse
 Development of safe operating procedures etc.

Why Safety is Important :

Irrespective of your job, designation, economic situation, the safety should be the first priority, in
order to keep your self-alive.
No government's act or regulations that mandate level of productivity or profit, hence health and
safety is a legal requirement of every national government and must be followed by an every
employer.

Guide to legal requirements in Health and Safety

Failure of implementing a safety procedures or lack of following health and safety will have a serious
consequences both to an employee and an employer.

If you are an employer, You have a legal responsibility of protecting your employees from safety and
health risks by taking all the possible controls.

If you are an employee, you do have a legal requirement to perform your job safely without causing
risk to yourself and others.

If you are a self-employed, you too had a responsibility to taken care of your safety and others
involving with you and your products.

Conclusion:
Safety is all about preventing accidents, ill health, environmental damage and other losses, which is
not planned and which happens in an unexpected way.

Prevention of unexpected losses, require a well-defined plan and right execution with the right
strategies.

Unless you know about an employees behaviors, technologies involved with an equipment and other
environmental factors that influence an likelihood of incidents, You could never prevent It; and the
accidents are certain.
Why Workplace Safety Should be your Prime Focus ??

Every health and safety practitioners including you and me are coming after hundreds of criticism and
negative arguments, which cannot be disagreed by any one.

But, there are thousands of reasons that exist behind workplace safety and its importance in
industries.

which should be taught to everyone in the industry including from the Shop floor worker to Senior
level manager.

Here I have Listed you the Ultimate reasons "Why You should Give Importance to Workplace Safety"

1.A single accident can Spoil Your Complete Business :

There are Hundreds of real time incidents , through which most of big companies lost their business
by single accident.

Such as,

Centralia Mining Disaster in 1947

Bhopal Disaster in 1984 , India
Lac Megantic 2013
Philips Disaster in 1989

In which the industrial accidents resulted in major disaster and multiple fatalities.

So remember , An single accident can result in multiple fatality and disaster , which can ruin your
complete business,

2.Your Business depends on your Customers & Shareholders :

Every companies are supported by its own shareholders and customers to run their business and sell
your products.

Would you ready to invest in a company , that going in loss or having an bad image among the
customers.

Nope.

In developed technology and social awareness , every incidents are covered by media and people will
never ready to purchase your products or invest in your company, when you are not even ready to
protect your employees,
If you believe, your Business is important ; than Workplace safety should be prime.

3.You are Legally Liable :

Workplace safety is not an combo , which can be added by choice, and its an legal requirement.

There are no choices like either follow or leave it.

Irrespective of region you are doing business , you must follow their own legal requirements , in order
to do the business,

When workplace safety fails , the consequences would be severe from imprisonment to sealing your
entire company.

4.You Never Knew its Impact :

Workplace safety will have high impact on your Business and You never Know that.

Most of the Benefits of workplace safety are intangible , which is very tough to Calculate.

The Simple Question is ,

Would You do Business with person , with whom you do not have Trust ?

Would You work for a person , Who is arrogant and doing business only for Money?

Nope , No one would do that.

Health and safety will have high impact on your business in a positive way , among your employees ,
among your contractors , among your customers and among everyone in the society.

Your Reputation and Brand name will increase, with increase your business automatically.

“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested,
they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek
“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s
Soup
This are all the words said by Popular CEO's. A Good CEO Knows their investment in people , will
never get wasted and the Value of trust everything in business.

5.Business is Not Only Earning & Its Controlling loss Too :

Would You think , the Business is earning profit alone , If you think you are doing business in wrong
mode.

Lack of health and safety will cost you in number of ways and even a single first aid will cost you some
money.
And most of the times the costs could not be counted / calculated and not even imagined well, unless
it is properly analysed.

Would You think Only the ,

Injury , First aid , Hospitalization cost , sick pay , repair of equipment's and Hiring persons new persons
are the Cost of Accidents
Nope, There are huge losses that will never be considered or accounted during cost analysis like
Investigation time and their Lost of work
Production time during accident and their respective cost of company
Indirect impact on insurance premium
Loss of Employee Moral and Their Trust among the Company
Impact on Company Business name & Reputation, If it founded by Medias
The Time of Conducting new risk assessment
Impact of Legal fines and Prosecutions etc etc.

So the Conclusion is that , You will never save anything , by reducing investments for health and safety
, Instead you are Inviting loss to your Business.

Safety is Not An Supporting Department :

Of course , Productivity of the company is prime and the purpose you are initializing a company is to
earn some money.

But,

A Good Business and business owners know , Value of their employees ,customers and their own own
business name.

Instead of of spending dollars in advertisement and marketing , care your employees , and they will
do marketing for you without any expectations.

and They will care your Business more than You.

Remember , Even your Production engineer will start loosing their trust on your company , when you
are not giving priority to Safety.

Conclusion :

Invest in to Health and safety, if you wanna do the business for long run and in a profitable way.
Workplace Safety in 11 Easy Steps

There is no concern , which job you are performing , working safely is an essential formula that every
person to follow ,to alive and to survive.

We cannot say ,my workplace is hazard free , and there is no chances for an accidents .

Even the person , sitting with no work for a number of hours will be at risk of back pain , which is most
commonly occurring Occupational ill health.

Here i have listed you 11 precious & quick tips to work safely .

1.Do only the job , which you know well

The First and foremost thing you should remember , is to do the activities only you do better & also
confirm that you are familiar with the hazards and safety measures required.

2.Get assistance , until you are Competent

Working under the supervision or working under the instructions of experienced persons will not spoil
your image .

Remember doing the job with sufficient skills & experience is an paramount importance to do the job
safely .

Though all your equipment's are safe and well maintained , the accidents will occur , if you are not
familiar with the safe operating Procedures.

3.Select the right tools

Though you are 10 + years of experienced , its impossible to perform the job safely without the
availability of right tools to perform the Jobs .

So select the tools which are suitable & designed to perform the job .

Ex : Using the forklift only to lift the materials and not using to carry the peoples.
4.Check before use :

User checks are the important formula , that cannot be eliminated in the working safely chapter.

So Inspect the tools and equipment's for damage , wear , tear , corrosion , or other possible defects
before using It.

5.Confirm the environment is safe

Most of the times , the major cause of the electrical accidents are performing a job in unsuitable
environment .
For example : Performing an electrical work in wet environment

So not only for electrical , for any kind of work check the environment is safe for the type of work you
are performing .

6.Use all the PPE :

Everybody knows , that wearing a PPE for a long time will be uncomfortable and will create a stress, but
remember there are number of incidents in which the severe injuries are reduced into minor by the PPE
.

So always comply with the PPE policy & work safely.

7.Follow SOP :

Check the Safe operating procedures for the job you are performing and be familiar with . If there is any
doubt, do not hesitate to ask to the concern persons either your senior staffs or supervisors.

8.Report any hazards & Incidents

Everybody is responsible for safety , but the level of responsibility is different . Unless you report your
incidents and hazards you face during your job , there will be no solutions .

So be an person initiating , report the hazards you find to the supervisors through the system which your
company permits.
9.Take Reasonable care :

No matter you are employee or employer or self employed , everyone having the legal and social
responsibility to do not harm others .

So perform the job in a way , which will not harm others.

10.Never be complacent :

overconfident and carelessness can kill you , the accidents won't occur only for freshers , it can happen
for any one ,

Also most of the fatalities are not caused by the major cause , its because the minor carelessness.

11.Know Your rights

Statistics says , 60 % of the workers are unaware of the health and safety rights , that they have. So if
you are one of them ,

Study the rights and responsibilities of the employee or employer about occupational safety & Health.