Reviewer BOSH Costs of accidents
EMERGING ISSUES IN OSH
•Women are often faced with multiple
burdens
•250 million child laborers around the
world of which 3.7 million are found in
the Philippines
•2.2M are in hazardous jobs
INFORMAL SECTOR workers – are
those who do not have secure
employment contracts and generally
do not have benefits or access to a
social safety net.
UNSAFE/UNHEALTHY ACTS AND
CONDITIONS
Accidents - An accident is an
unexpected, unforeseen, unplanned
and unwanted
Common types of accidents:
• Fall from height and fall from the
same level (slips and trips)
• struck against rigid structure, sharp
or rough objects
• struck by falling objects
• caught in, on or in between objects
• Electrocution
• Fire
Corollary to accidents are costs that
companies have to bear whether
directly or indirectly. The cost of
accidents can be best explained by
the Iceberg Theory.
Indirect costs include:
1. Lost or lesser productivity of the
injured – workers lose their efficiency
and income due to work interruption
on the day of the injury
2. Loss of productivity among other
employees due to work stoppage when
assisting the injured worker,
inspection or merely out of curiosity
3. Loss of productivity among
supervisors because instead of
focusing on managing people and the
work flow, they spend their time
assisting the injured, investigating the
accident and preparing inspection
reports.
4. Hiring and training replacement
workers
5. Downtime due to equipment damage
Accident causation
People usually utter the above
mentioned phrases or statements
when someone gets injured or dies in
an accident.
Unsafe/unhealthy Act: the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI)
defines this as “any human action that direct/indirect costs of
violates a commonly accepted safe accidents/illnesses.Housekeeping
work procedure or standard operating means putting everything in its proper
procedure.” place. It is everybody’s business to
observe it in the workplace.
Examples of unsafe acts
include:horse playing, smoking in non- Defining what is not Housekeeping
smoking areas, using
• cluttered and poorly arranged areas
substandard/defective tools,
• Untidy piling of materials
Unsafe/unhealthy Condition: ANSI
defines this as the physical or • Improperly piled-on materials that
chemical property of a material, results to damaging other materials
machine or the environment which
could possibly cause injury to people, • Items no longer needed
damage to property, disrupt
• blocked aisles and passageways
operations in a plant or office or
other forms of losses. • Materials stuffed in corners and
out-of-the-way places
Examples of unsafe conditions
include: slippery and wet floors, dusty • Materials getting rusty and dirty
work area, congested plant lay-out. from non-use

Can accident be prevent? • Excessive quantities of items

American industrial safety pioneer • Overcrowded storage areas and

who worked as an Assistant shelves
Superintendent of the Engineering
• overflowing bins and containers
and Inspection Division of Travelers
Insurance Company did a study on the • broken containers and damaged
insurance claims. materials
HOUSEKEEPING 7 WASTES of LEAN
5S - a Japanese concept that aims to 1. Inventory
optimize time for production,
2. Waiting
Housekeeping is important because it
lessens accidents and related injuries 3. Defects
and illnesses. It therefore improves
4. Overproduction
productivity and minimizes
5. Motion • Follow the first-in-first-out (FIFO)
method for storing items
6. Transportation
• Assign each item a dedicated
7. Over-processing
location.

• All items and their locations should

be indicated by a systematic

• Labeling

• Place items so that they are visible

to minimize search time

• Place items so they can be reached

or handled easily.

• Separate exclusive tools from

common ones.

• Place frequently used tools near the

user.

3. Seiso/Sweep/Simutin – is the
third S which means we have to
7 Seiton Principles sanitize

or:

• clean our workplace.

•Keep environmental condition as clean

as the level necessary for

• The products

• Prevent deterioration of machinery

and equipment and make

• checking of abnormalities easy

5S Terms • Keep workplace safe and work easy

4. Seiketsu/Standardize/Siguruhin –
is the fourth S which means we have
to:

• standardize what we are doing.

5. Shitsuke/Self- Discipline/Sariling
kusa – is the fifth and last S which
means we have to do this process
without prodding

Good housekeeping is needed for

quality improvement. By this we
lessen rejects/losses.

OSHC-Occupational Safety and

Health Center

Good housekeeping is needed for

quality improvement. By this we

lessen rejects/losses. A company that

follows good housekeeping principles
will surely be recognized as a provider
of quality service and products