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The Importance of Occupational Health and
Safety Procedures in the workplace
Content standards
Performance Standards
Most Essential Learning
Competency
Content standards
The Learners demonstrate
an understanding the
practice of occupational
health and safety
Performance Standard
The learners
independently practice
occupational health and
safety.
Most Essential Learning Competency
(MELC)
Recognize the
Importance of OHS
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The Importance of
Occupational Health and
Safety Procedures in the
workplace
Occupational Health and Safety
 It is a multi-disciplinary field health care
concern with enabling an individual to
undertake their occupation, in the way that
causes least harm to their health.
 It is a planned system of working to prevent
illness and injury when you work by identifying
hazards and risk.
HAZARDS VS RISKS
HAZARDS
Itis an agent which has the
potential to cause harm
Risks
 It is chance or probability that you may be
harm when exposed to a hazard.

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Hazard is a thing that has
a potential to cause harm

Risk is what possibly happen

when you are exposed to a
Hazard
HAZARD poses no RISK
if there is no exposure
to that HAZARD.
 PHYSICAL ERGONOMIC
HAZARD HAZARD

TYPES OF
BILOGICAL HAZARD CHEMICAL
HAZARD HAZARD
PSYCHOLOGIC
AL HAZARD
Biological Hazards are organic substances that pose
a threat to the health of humans and other living
organisms. Biological hazards include pathogenic micro-
organisms, viruses, toxins (from biological sources),
spores, fungi and bio-active substances.
Physical Hazards can be any factors within the environment
that can harm the body without necessarily touching it.
Ergonomic Hazards are physical conditions that may pose
risk of injury to the musculoskeletal system, such as the muscles
or ligaments of the lower back, tendons or nerves of the
hands/wrists, or bones surrounding the knees, resulting in a
musculoskeletal disorder (MSD).
Chemical Hazards are present when a worker is exposed to any chemical preparation in the
workplace in any form (solid, liquid or gas).
sychological hazard is any hazard that affects the
mental well-being or mental health of the worker by
overwhelming individual coping mechanisms and
impacting the worker's ability to work in a healthy and
safe manner.
Preventing Psychological Hazard
 True or False: Write True if the statement is
Correct and Write False if it is wrong
1. Occupational Health and Safety is the promotion of
health and safety of every working man.
2. Hazard poses no risk if there is no exposure to
that hazard.
3. Occupational hazards and risks can be prevented.
4. Risk is what possibly happen when you are exposed
to a Hazard
5.A hazard is any situation that has the potential to
cause injury, illness, or death
6.Too much lifting of heavy loads does not result in injury.
7. Chemical hazards happen when a worker’s
environment becomes stressful.

8. Too much bending and reaching is an example of

physical hazard
9. Frequent and thorough handwashing with soap and
water is an important way to increase your risk of
contracting or transmitting an infectious disease.
10. Protective clothing must be worn in the workplace