Occupational safety – health and wellbeing of people 2.

3 inappropriate activities
employed in a working environment 3. Accident/incident theory- extension of human
factors theory
Components of safety management systems
- Develop by Dan Peterson
1. Person
4. System Theory
2. Environment
3. Management Interacting components
4. Equipment 4.1 machine
5. Time and work procedures 4.2 person
4.3 environment
7 critical characteristics of a safety systems 5. Combination theory – a combination of the said
theories/models
1. Management commitment
2. Accountability 6. Outside factors theory- such as drugs, alcohol,
depression, family issues
3. Employee involvement
4. Hazard identification and control
5. Incident/accident analysis
6. Training INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
7. Program evaluation
-Science and art devoted to the ANTICIPATION,
RECOGNITION,EVALUATION, CONTROL of those
Safety management system structure
environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the
1. Safety manager
workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and
2. Safety engineer
well being or significant discomfort among workers or
3. Human resources coordinator
among the citizens of the community.
4. Safety committee
Industrial hygienist – protects employees’ health in the
Positive reinforcement- giving rewards for positive
workplace by creating and implementing programs, policies
behaviours
and procedures to measure and reduce employees exposure
Negative reinforcement – giving fines when doing to physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic stress
negative actions/behaviours factors.

Cause of accidents Recognizing and controlling hazards

1. Unsafe acts- violations of a commonly accepted
safe procedure which results in accident
2. Unsafe conditions – environmental factors that may
cause an accident for example is defective tools
Accident causation theories
1. Domino theory
5 factors in sequence lead to accident
1.1 ancestry and social environment
1.2 fault of person
1.3 unsafe act
1.4 accident
1.5 injury
2. Human factors theory - attributes accidents to
chain of events ultimately caused by human
error
2.1 overload
2.2 inappropriate response
1. Engineering controls –placing of side railings
2. Work practice controls – providing good
supervision, implementing good housekeeping
procedures
3. Administrative controls – scheduling production and
tasks or both in ways that minimize exposure levels.
Hazard Control – measures taken to eliminate or reduce
exposures whenever there is unacceptable risk based on
standards and professional judgment
FACTORS OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
1. Size and type of the organization
2. Management philosophy
3. Range of occupational hazards at the facility
4. Available health and safety resources.