LEGAL ASPECTS OF

SAFETY
LEGAL ASPECTS OF
HEALTH
AND
SAFETY AND

HEALTH
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)

Occupational Safety and

Health (OSH)
• It is a multidisciplinary field concerned with
It is a multidisciplinary field concerned
the safety, health, and welfare of people
with the safety, health, and welfare of
at work. The goal of an occupational safety
people at work. The goal of an
and health program is to foster a safe and
occupational safety and health program
healthy work environment.
is to foster a safe and healthy work
environment.
SAFETY

SAFETY
 Safety
• Safety is the state of being
is the state "safe",
of being thethe
"safe",
condition of being
condition protected
of being from
protected harm
from harmoror
other non-desirable
other non-desirable outcomes.
outcomes. Safetycan
Safety canalso
refer toalso
therefer to theofcontrol
control of recognized
recognized hazards in
hazards in order to achieve an acceptable
order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
level of risk.
What are the Four Aspects of Safety?

What are the Four Aspects of

Safety?
 There are Four Basic Elements to all
good Safety Programs:
There are four basic elements to all good safety
programs:
• Management Commitment and
• Management Commitment
Employee and Employee
Involvement
Involvement. ...
• Worksite Analysis
• Worksite• Analysis. ...
Hazard Prevention and Control
• Training for
• Hazard Prevention andEmployees,
Control. ... Supervisors
• Training and Managers Supervisors and
for Employees,
Managers.
 1. Management Commitment and
Employee Involvement
1. Management Commitment and Employee
• Management commitment provides the
Involvement
motivating force and the resources for
Management
organizing commitment provides
and controlling activitiesthewithin an
motivating
force and the
organization whileresources for organizing and
Employee
controllingprovides
involvement activities within an organization
the means through
while Employee involvement provides the means
which workers develop and/or express their
through which workers develop and/or express
owntheir
commitment
own commitment to safety and and
to safety health
health
protection forforthemselves
protection andfor
themselves and fortheir
their fellow
fellow
workers.
workers.
 2. Worksite Analysis
2. Worksite Analysis
• A worksite analysis involves a step-by-step,
commonsense
A worksitelook at theinvolves
analysis workplacea to find
existing or potentialcommonsense
step-by-step, hazards for workplace
look at the
violence. This entails
workplace reviewing
to find existingspecific
or potential
procedures
hazardsorfor
operations
workplace that contribute
violence. Thisto
hazards and specific
entails reviewingareas where
specific hazards may
procedures or
develop.
operations that contribute to hazards and
specific areas where hazards may
develop.
 3. Hazard Prevention and Control
3. Hazard Prevention and Control
• Effective controls protect workers from
workplace hazards; help avoid injuries,
Effective controls protect workers from
illnesses, and incidents; minimize or eliminate
workplace hazards; help avoid injuries,
safety and health risks; and help employers
illnesses, and incidents; minimize or
provide workers with safe and healthful
eliminate safety and health risks; and help
working conditions.
employers provide workers with safe and
healthful working conditions.
4. Training for Employees, Supervisors
and Managers
4. Training for Employees, Supervisors and Managers
• Education and training provides
employers,
Education andmanagers, supervisors,
training provides
and workersmanagers,
employers, with knowledge
supervisors,and skills
and workers with
needed to do
knowledge andtheir
skillswork
neededsafely
to doand
theiravoid
work safely
creating
and avoidhazards
creatingthat could
hazards thatplace
couldthemselves
place
orthemselves
others atorrisk. Awareness
others and
at risk. Awareness and
understanding ofofworkplace
understanding workplace hazards and and
hazards how how
to
toidentify,
identify,report, and and
report, control them. them.
control
What are the Key Aspects of Safety?

What are the Key Aspects of

Safety?
 8 Core
8 Core Elements
Elements

• Management commitment
• Management to safety.
commitment to safety.
• Job satisfaction.
• Job satisfaction.
• Training,• equipment,
Training, equipment,
physicalphysical
environment.
environment.
• Organizational commitment.
• Organizational commitment.
• Worker involvement.
• Worker involvement.
• Co-worker support.support.
• Co-worker
• Performance management.
• Performance management.
• Personal• accountability.
Personal accountability.
1. Management Commitment to Safety
1. Management
• Management Commitment
commitment totosafety
Safety is a
specific and critical component
Management commitment to safety is a specific
of safety climate, which refers to workers'
and critical component of safety climate, which
perceptions of the degree
refers to workers' to which
perceptions of the degree to
theirwhich
managers value and
their managers value and
support safesafe
support working
workingand
andare
are dedicated
dedicated toto
workers' safety.
safety.
workers'
 2. Job satisfaction
2. Job Satisfaction
• Job satisfaction is defined as the level of
Job satisfaction
contentment employees feelaswith
is defined the their
level job.
of
This goes beyond
contentment their daily
employees duties
feel their job.
with to
cover
Thissatisfaction
goes beyondwith
theirteam
daily duties to
cover satisfaction with
members/managers, satisfaction
team with
organizational policies,satisfaction
members/managers, and the impactwith of
their job on employees
organizational policies,personal
and the lives.
impact of
their job on employees personal lives.
 3. Training, Equipment, Physical
Environment
3. Training,
• Training Equipment,
or knowledge Physical
of the site and
Environment
preventive maintenance of equipment and
the general physical environment can help
Training
minimize or knowledge
potential of the site
injury causing and
hazards.
preventive maintenance of equipment and
the general physical environment can help
minimize potential injury causing
hazards.
 4. Organizational Commitment
4. Organizational
• Organizational Commitment
commitment is defined as a
view of an organization's member's
Organizational
psychology commitment
towards his/her attachment
is definedtoas
a view of an organization's
the organization that he/she ismember's
working for.
psychology towards his/her attachment
to the organization that he/she is working
for.
 5. Worker Involvement
• Employee involvement refers to work
5. Worker Involvement
systems that allow employees to
systematically give their input into decisions
Employee involvement refers to work
that effect their own work.
systems that allow employees to
systematically give their input into
decisions that effect their own work.
 6. Co-worker Support
6. Co-worker
• Protect Support
coworkers from deadly distractions.
Improve your own safety awareness.
Protect coworkers from deadly
distractions. Improve your own safety
awareness.
 7. Performance Management
7. Performance Management
• Performance management (PM) is the
Performance
process management
of ensuring that a (PM)
set ofisactivities
the processand
of
ensuring
outputs that an
meets a setorganization's
of activities andgoals
outputs
in meets
an
an organization's
effective and efficientgoalsmanner.
in an effective and
Performance
efficient manner. Performance management can
management can focus on
focus on the performance of an organization, a
the department,
performance of an organization,
an employee, a in
or the processes
department, an employee,
place to manage or the processes in
particular tasks.
place to manage particular tasks.
 8. Personal Accountability
8. Personal Accountability
• Personal accountability is the belief that you
are fully responsible
Personal for your
accountability is the own
beliefactions
that youand
are
consequences. It's aforchoice,
fully responsible your owna mindset
actions andand an
expression of integrity.
consequences. It's a choice, a mindset and an
expression of integrity.
What are the Principles in Health and
Safety?

What are the Principles in Health

and Safety?
 1. Job-specific health and safety practices and
• Job-specific
hazardshealth and safety practices and
hazards; Recognition and assessment of
2. Recognition
health and safetyand assessment
risks; and, How of health and
to minimize
safety risks
risks through sound safety practices and use
of protective equipment; and, Awareness
3. How to minimize risks through sound safety
of
appropriate
practicespractices
and use oftoprotective
protect equipment
the environment.
4. Awareness of appropriate practices to protect
the environment.
Five Elements of an Effective Safety
Culture

Five Elements of an Effective

Safety Culture
 1. Responsibility - Companies with strong safety
cultures share the value of responsibility.
• 1. Responsibility - Companies with strong safety
2. Accountability
cultures share the- Managers
value of must
responsibility.
be held accountable to
lead by example -each
• 2. Accountability and everymust
Managers day. be held
accountable to lead by example each and every
day.3. Clear Expectations - Safety expectations need to be set
and communicated to everyone in the organization.
• 3. Clear Expectations - Safety expectations need
to be set and communicated to everyone in the
4. Ethics
organization.
• 4. Ethics
5. Next Steps
• 5. Next Steps
Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Act

Occupational Safety and Health

Standards Act
 With the RA 11058, employers are now
• With the RA 11058, employers are now
required to comply with occupational safety
required
and to comply
health withincluding
standards occupational safety
informing
and health standards
workers including
on all types of hazardsinforming
in the
workers on all types
workplace of hazards
and having the rightintothe
refuse
workplace
unsafeand having
work, as wellthe
as right to refuse
providing facilities
unsafeand
work, as well
personal as providing
protective equipment facilities
for the and
workers,
personal among equipment
protective others. for the
workers, among others
Basics of Occupational Safety and
Health

Basics of Occupational
Safety and Health
 The Basics of Occupational Safety and Health
• The provides
Basics ofprofessionals
Occupationalnew Safety and
to the Health
field of OSH
provides
with anprofessionals
introductionnew todevelopment
to the the field of OSH
of
withprograms
an introduction to the
that reduce development
injuries and addressof
programs that reduce injuries and address
regulatory
regulatory requirements.
requirements. Safety
Safety andhealth
and healthshould
should be
be primary primaryinconcerns
concerns in any workplace.
any workplace. The
viability
The of an economy
viability rests onrests
of an economy the on
productivity
the
of itsproductivity
workers. Productivity entails
of its workers. an
Productivity entails
environment that nurtures
an environment workers
that nurtures andand
workers ensures
their safety. Poor conditions can result to illness,
ensures their
injury, and death. safety. Poor conditions can result
to illness, injury, and death.
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration

Occupational Safety and

Health Administration
• OSHA OSHA
stands stands
for thefor the Occupational
Occupational Safety and
HealthSafety and Health an
Administration, Administration,
agency of the anU.S.
agency of
Department of Labor.
the U.S. Department
OSHA’s of Labor.
responsibility is
OSHA’s
to improve responsibility
worker safety andishealth
to improve
worker safety and health protection.
protection.
What Rights Do You Have Under
OSHA?

What Rights Do You Have Under

OSHA?
 You have the right to:

- Athe
• You have saferight
and to:
healthful workplace
– A safe- and
Know about workplace
healthful hazardous chemicals
– Know-about
Report hazardous
injury tochemicals
employer
– Report injury to employer
- Complain or request hazard correction from
– Complain
employeror request hazard correction from employer
– Training
- Training
– Hazard exposure and medical records
- Hazard exposure and medical records
– File a complaint with OSHA
– - File in
Participate a complaint with OSHA
an OSHA inspection
– Be free- Participate in anfor
from retaliation OSHA inspection
exercising safety and
health- Be
rights
free from retaliation for exercising safety
and health rights
The Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 (OSH Act)

The Occupational Safety and

Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act)
 - OSHA was created to provide workers the right to a safe
and healthful workplace

- It is the duty of the employers to provide workplaces

• OSHA was created to provide workers the right to a safe
andthat are free workplace
healthful of known dangers that could harm their
• employees
It is the duty of the employers to provide workplaces that
are free of known dangers that could harm their employees
• This- This law also
law also givesgives workers
workers important
important rights
rights to
to participate in
activities
participateto ensure their to
in activities protection
ensure theirfrom job hazards
protection from job
• Employers
hazards must have a written, complete hazard
communication program that includes information on:
– -Container
Employers labeling,
must have a written, complete hazard
Safety Data Sheets
– communication (SDSs), that
program and includes information on:
– Worker training.
Container labeling,
• The training must include the physical and health hazards of the
Safety
chemicalsData Sheets
and how (SDSs),
workers and themselves
can protect
Worker training.
The training must include the physical and health
hazards of the chemicals and how workers can
 - OSHA’s Recordkeeping rule requires most employers
with more than 10 workers to keep a log of injuries and
illnesses
• OSHA’s Recordkeeping rule requires most employers with more
than- 10 workers
Workers to keep
have a log to
the right of report
injuriesanand illnesses
injury and review
• Workers have
current logthe right to report an injury* and review current log
• Workers also have the right to view the annually posted summary
of the injuries and illnesses (OSHA 300A)
- Workers
• Workers also up
may bring have the right
safety to view
and health the annually
concerns in the posted
workplace
summary to of
their
theemployers
injuries andwithout fear (OSHA
illnesses of discharge or
300A)
discrimination
• OSHA rules protect
- Workers may workers
bring upwho raise
safety concerns
and health to their employer
concerns in the
or OSHA about unsafe or unhealthful conditions in the workplace
workplace
• Workers have atoright
theirtoemployers
get trainingwithout fear of discharge
from employers or
on a variety
discrimination
of health and safety hazards and standards that employers must
follow
- OSHA rules protect workers who raise concerns to
their employer or OSHA about unsafe or unhealthful
conditions in the workplace
OSHA Standards

OSHA Standards
 - Rules that describe the methods employers must use to protect
employees from hazards.
• Rules that describe the methods employers must use
-to protecttoemployees
Designed fromfrom
protect workers hazards.
a wide range of hazards.
• Designed to protect workers from a wide range of
-hazards
Limit the amount of hazardous chemicals, substances, or noise
Limit
• that the amount
workers of hazardous
can be exposed to. chemicals, substances,
or noise that workers can be exposed to
• -Require
Require the
the use
useofofcertain safesafe
certain work practices
work and equipment.
practices and
equipment
- Require employers to monitor certain hazards and keep
Require
• records employers to monitor certain
of workplace injuries and illnesses.
hazards and
keep records of workplace injuries and illnesses