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4. Design of plant, office and structures according to OH&S regulations.

the designer must consider the regulations that a company must comply with, Health
damage and risks can exist throughout the plant life cycle from manufacturing to
installation.
The designer must design a plant that is safe to use and complies with OH&S regulations,
for that reason, a designer should also consider:
• The skill levels required to use or maintain the plant
• The complexity of the functions that a person can perform in the plant
• The need and location of items to ensure proper use and avoid human mistakes, for
example guides, indicators, protectors, instructions, signs, and symbols.
• Ensuring that the plant design is fail-safe and complies with safety rules
• The design of the workstations
• Devices, tools, or controls that the person needs to be able to carry out their work safely
• The location of viable exits for the worker.
• Free space, Separate people, avoid a design where a person can get trapped in an
emergency.
Designers must also consider predictable human behavior.
OFFICE
Although office and commercial interiors are generally considered low-risk work
environments, they still contain numerous health and safety hazards that’s why in any
workplace and office is important to have their hazards identified.
Some common workplace hazards in the office include:
• Poor or inadequate (inadecuet)lighting, causing eyestrain
• Ergonomic risks such as repetitive movements, such as uncomfortable height or poor
body position
• Extreme temperatures, due to air conditioning
• Dangers of moving objects and boxes
• Tripping, loose wireless cables
• Electrical hazards such as loose (lus)plugs and electronics
• Fire hazards, such as damaged cables or blocked walkways
• Chemical hazards
• Risks of stress.
All health and safety hazards listed, once identified, must be controlled.

5. KPI related to OH&S. What's important to measure?

To be useful as a tool to manage KPIs, they must provide quantitative data that reflects the
problems and health and safety activities of the company, these must indicate measures on
risks, exposures, and emerging dangers, as well as on preventive activities, avoid dangers
and risks.
KPIs should be based as far as possible on objective and validated measurements, however,
some are difficult to measure objectively, for example (worker satisfaction) in this case,
surveys help a lot for data collection.
KPIs are important to the effectiveness of the occupational health and safety management
process. They help motivate managers, and prevent potential harm, and get answers for
problem solving.
6.Occupational Health and safety organism in DR, regulations, Law protection in our
country (ARL, Social security)
The Dominican Social Security System (SDSS)
It is a public social protection system created by Law 87-01 promulgated on May nine on
2001. Its character is universal, mandatory, supportive, this gives constitutional rights to the
population; It was created to protect the population against the risks of old age, disability,
unemployment due to advanced age, illness, maternity, childhood, and occupational risks.
This system verifies and supervises all public ,private and mixed institutions dedicated to
Social Security activities in the Dominican Republic.
Next, I will mention some of the Dominican organizations:
 The National Social Security Council (SDSS),
 the Social Security Treasury (ISS),
 the Directorate for Information and Defense of Social Security Affiliates (DIDA),
 the Superintendency of Health and Occupational Risks (SISALRIL),
 the Superintendency of Pensions (SIPEN),
 the Occupational Risk Administrator (ARL),
 the National Health Insurance (SENASA),
 the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP),
 the Health Risk Administrators (ARS),
 Public or private Health Service Providers (PSS)