- It is the concept wherein all actions and procedures are taken to protect peoples life or health. Safety is the restriction of factors in the workplace that might cause injury, accidents, and other bad results. It's a collection of policies, attitudes, and safeguards designed to keep workplace risks, accidents, and other types of injury to a minimum. 2. What is an Accident? - It is something goes wrong when it wasn't supposed to. Collisions, injuries, and falls are examples of physical accidents. Occupational accident is the term used when accident happens in a workplace. 3. What is Hazard? and why do we need to identify Hazards? - Any source of possible damage, injury, or bad health consequences on something or someone is considered a hazard, it is an unavoidable danger . In workplace, health and safety hazard is a must, other necessary risks maybe prevented by using protective equipment. - It is important to identify hazards to know the possible damage or accident to happen and if we know the hazards then we can prepare for the consequences of injury to reduce accidents.
4. Give examples of unsafe acts.
These are some of the unsafe acts in the workplace: - Not providing safety gear - Poorly maintained equipment - Bad lighting - Failure in securing dangerous chemicals or substances - Defective equipment - Lack of cleaning - Disregarded warning signs - Poor ventilation - Electrical grounding not observed