Safety and Health

Management Practices
Occupational Health Control
Unsafe act and Unsafe Condition

By: MarbenJohn L. Guirigay

What is a Safety and Health Management
System?

• A health and safety policy is an organisation's statement

detailing how they will ensure a healthy and safe work
environment.

• Individual policies will need to be developed for specific

hazards and issues.
Who is involved with policies?

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Employees
• Health and Safety Coordinator
• Health and Safety Committee
• Health and Safety Representatives
Occupational Health Control
What is occupational health?

• Occupational health is a specialist branch of medicine that focuses

on the physical and mental wellbeing of employees in the
workplace.
The aim of occupational health is to prevent
work-related illness and injury by:

• encouraging safe working practices;

• ergonomics
• monitoring the health of the workforce;
Ergonomics
Primary Causes of Accidents

• Unsafe Act
• Unsafe Condition
Unsafe Act
• The human action that departs from a standard job procedure or safe practice, safety regulations or
instructions.

• Operating Equipment without Authority

• Disregard of SOP or instructions
• Removing Safety Devices
• Using Defective equipment
• Using improper PPEs or Using PPEs improperly
• Horseplay
• Working in an unsafe posture
• Absent-mindedness / Nervousness
• Willful intent to injure
• Working while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
• Improper lifting and carrying
• Lack of knowledge or skills
• Failure to understand instructions
Unsafe condition

• The physical or chemical property of a material, machine or the

environment which could result in injury to a person, damage or
destruction to property or other forms of losses.
• Wet slippery floors
• Unstable stacking of materials
• Protruding re-bars
• Live conductors without insulation
• Equipment without machine guarding
• Poor storage of combustible materials