COMPUTER SYSTEMS SERVICING NC II

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Lesson 01: Identify Hazard and Risks

Hazards and Risks Identification and Control

Sound occupational health and safety policies are essential for employees, but they are also increasingly
important for your customers and other stakeholders. Occupational Health and Safety Management
systems certification to OHSAS 18001 is a strong sign of a organization’s commitment to employees’
health and safety.

Many organizations implement an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) as a
fundamental part of their risk management strategy to address changing legislation and protect their
workforce and other persons working under their control.
OHSAS 18001:2007 addresses the following key areas:

Hazard identification, risk assessment and determining controls

Legal and other requirements
Objectives and OHS program(s)
Resources, roles, responsibility, accountability and authority
Competence, training and awareness
Communication, participation and consultation
Operational control
Emergency preparedness and response
Performance measuring, monitoring and improvement

Organizational Safety and Health Protocols

Occupational health: Concerns the physical and mental health of workers and includes the study of
work methods, conditions of work and factors in the working environment that may cause diseases or
injuries.

Occupational safety: Concerns the protection of worker’s lives and physical well-being by eliminating
or controlling risks in the working environment or the system of work within which workers operate.

OHS Criteria and Indicators

INSTITUTIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES:

1.    SAFETY CONTROL AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
•    Incident/accident investigation analysis, recording and reporting
•    List of programs/activities in promoting  housekeeping
•    Safety innovations and activities
•    Records of machine preventive maintenance program
•    Records of downtime, running time and production schedule
•    List of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) provided
•    Records of fire safety orientations and drills conducted
•    Records of maintenance of fire fighting facilities
•    Emergency preparedness plans and related training

2.    INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE PROGRAM

•    Chemical safety
– Inventory and Chemical Safety Data Sheets
– Proper labelling, handling and storage of chemicals
– Emergency contingency plan
– Waste management and disposal
– Appropriate PPE
•    Regular Work Environment Measurement (WEM) and compliance to Threshold Limit Values (TLVs)
•    Continuous workplace improvement and control measures

3.    OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM

•    List of medical staff and employment status
•    List of clinical, dental and medical equipment
•    Annual Medical Report for the past five years
•    Establishment’s medical records for the past five years (including analysis)
•    Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)/in-house health services or both
•    Medical services and programs implemented:
– Basic
– Pre-employment
– Annual/periodic
– Transfer
– Separation
– Dental examinations
– Special examinations
– Please specify
•    Other occupational health programs
– Hearing conservation program, respiratory protection program, etc.
– Occupational health surveillance programs (i.e. blood lead, etc.)
•    Special occupational health programs
– Workplace drug prevention program
– HIV/AIDS prevention in the workplace
– Family welfare program
– Anti-sexual harassment
– Tobacco
– TB in the workplace
– Prevention of lifestyle-related diseases
– Others

4.    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS

•    Compliance with government regulations
•    Employment of accredited Pollution Control Officer (PCO)
•    Classification and segregation of waste
•    Pollution control facilities such as waste water treatment, air cleaning device for hazardous air
emission and proper disposal of waste
•    Environmental protection programs such as marine, forest preservation
•    System of responding to issues and concerns
•    Unresolved complaints
•    Allocated budget for community development
•     Continuing assistance to community

5.    SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAMS

•    Policy on gender
•    Policy on persons with disability (PWD)
•    Employment of PWDs
•    Other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs

6.    CAPACITY BUILDING ON OSH

•    List of required orientations/training on OSH (i.e. Basic Occupational Safety and Health Training,
Construction Safety Training, OSH-Management System (OSH-MS), chemical safety, drug abuse,
HIV/AIDS, gender sensitivity, anti-sexual harassment, family welfare
•    Training calendar and other staff development activities
•    Plans on communicating OSH
•    Information program, materials and dissemination strategies
•    Monitoring and evaluation

7.    OSH-MS, INTERNATIONAL SAFETY RATING SYSTEM AND OTHERS

•    Copy of certification

8.    OUTCOME (OSH INDICATORS AND PRODUCTIVITY

•    Comparison of safe man-hours and severity/frequency rates between 2012 and 2013
•    Comparison between machine uptime in 2012 and 2013
•    Comparison in resource savings in 2012 and 2013
•    Comparison in 2012 and 2013 outputs

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