Evaluate Hazards and Risks in the Workplace

Lesson EVALUATE HAZARDS AND RISKS IN THE

1 WORKPLACE

Evaluating hazards and risks in the workplace is the process of determining

the level of risk created by the hazard and the chance of having an injury or illness to
occur.

Five steps to evaluate hazards and risks

1. Identify the hazards
2. Decide who might be harmed and how
3. Evaluate risks and decide on how to prevent it
4. Record the results
5. Review the evaluation and update if necessary

Examples on how to evaluate hazards and risks

(Picture 1)

1. Identify the hazard The woman is cooking.

2. Decide who might be harmed It is the woman who will be harmed.
and
how

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3. Evaluate risks and decide on She will get burned.
how to prevent it

4. Record the results Record the event

5. Review the evaluation and Review and evaluate

update if necessary

(Picture 2)

1. Identify the hazard The girl is slicing and eating.

2. Decide who might be harmed The girl will be harmed.

and how

3. Evaluate risks and decide on She may get hurt.

how to prevent it

4. Record the results Record it

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 5. Review the evaluation and Review and evaluate
update if necessary

Lesson
EFFECTS OF HAZARDS IN THE WORKPLACE
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Health may be affected by occupational exposures in many different ways

and eventually can affect your other organs.

Here are the following health effects of hazards in the workplace:

1. Asthma. It is caused from flour or other baking agents.

2. Musculoskeletal. It refers to back pain from manual handling of the things or

equipment.

3. Nervous and mental. It may result to nerve deafness caused by noise and
mental illness caused by stress.

4. Blood or Marrow. It is an anemia caused by lead that damage the

hemoglobin.

5. Genitourinary and Endocrine. It can damage the kidney caused by some

solvent exposures.

6. Liver. Hepatitis caused by toxic from chemicals.

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Assessment

A. Directions: True or False: Write T if the statement is correct and F if the

statement
is wrong. Write it in your TLE notebook.
_____ 1. Stress can make other diseases worst.
_____ 2. It is important to identify hazards in the workplace.
_____ 3. Musculoskeletal refers to back pain from manual handling of the things or
equipment.
_____ 4. Evaluating hazard and risk is important for you not to be harmed.
_____ 5. There is no need to review the evaluation being made.
_____ 6. Record the result is the first step in evaluating hazards and risks.
_____ 7. Asthma is a disease caused by a toxic from some chemicals.
_____ 8. Decide who might be harmed and how is the third step in the evaluation of
hazards and risks.
_____ 9. Review the evaluation and update if necessary is the last step in evaluating
hazards and risks.
_____ 10. Risks is created from a hazard.

B. Directions: Sequencing: Sequence the steps in evaluating hazards and risk. (1-
5)

______ Identify and list the hazards

______ Decide who might be harmed and how
______ Record the results
______ Review the evaluation and update if necessary
______ Evaluate risks and decide on how to prevent it

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