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Safety Culture
Objectives
– Identify how workplace injuries or illnesses can
affect your everyday life.
– Identify common symptoms, aches/pains, illnesses
and injuries that are associated with your work.
– Identify and recognize the exposures and hazards
linked to work-related illnesses and injuries.
– Develop solutions and strategies to address these
identified hazards.
Culture
• A culture is a way of doing things that is
shared, taught or copied.
• Everyone in a particular culture tends to do
things in a similar way, which they would
consider to be the norm.
Safety culture
– How people feel about safety (the safety climate),
– What they actually do,
– What are the policies and
– The Procedures the organization has.
Elements of Safety Culture
– Working practices and rules for effectively controlling
hazards
– A positive attitude towards risk management and
compliance with the control processes
– The capacity to learn from accidents, near misses and
safety performance indicators and bring about
continual improvement.
Safety Culture Benefits
• Reduction in Accidents
• Fewer Injuries
• Cost Savings
• Lower Insurance Rates
• Increased Productivity
• Improved Public Relations
• 80-90% of all industrial accidents are
attributable to 'human factors'
Pre-requisite for a positive safety
culture
• A prerequisite for a positive safety culture is
good information.
• In order for the information to flow, the
workforce needs to be willing to participate
and be prepared to report their mistakes, near
misses and accidents.
What are our safety rules?
What could hurt you or make you sick where you work?
A hazard is
anything that
can
cut you
A hazard is
anything that
can
trip you
A hazard is
anything that
can
burn you
A hazard is
anything that
can
crush you
A hazard is
anything that
can
hurt your
hearing
A hazard is
anything that
can
hurt your
eyes
A hazard is
anything that
can
make you
sick
A hazard is
anything that
can
cause you
pain
Find the hazard
Keeping your work area
safe
What would
you do if this
was you?
Make your workplace
safe
Keeping your work area safe
Requires worker or
employer to do
something
Requires
worker to
wear
something
Least Effective
CONTROLS: Engineering
CONTROL AT THE SOURCE!
Limits the hazard but doesn’t entirely remove it.
Other Examples:
Mechanical Guards
Wet Methods for Dust
Enclosures/Isolation
Dilution Ventilation
Local Exhaust
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Special Clothing
Eye Protection
Hearing Protection
Respiratory Protection