ILO-OSH – GUIDELINES ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
The ILO (International Labour Organization) has designed the guidelines on occupational safety and health as a practical tool for assisting organizations and competent institutions for improvement in occupational safety and health (OSH) practices. These guidelines have been developed according to internationally agreed principles. ILO (International Labour Organization) ILO is a specialized agency of the United […]
Occupational Epidemiology: Systematic Exposure Hazard Recognition
“Epidemiology” is the study and analysis of the dispensation, order, frequency, and affective factors of health and disease conditions in specific occupants, and “Occupational Epidemiology” is its branch that deals with explorations of workers and workplace issues. Thus it is an exposure-accustomed discipline with coupling to both epidemiology and occupational health. Occupational Epidemiology includes studies to […]
Key Elements of A Successful HSE Management System
A Successful HSE Management System’ is itself a key element for an organization to grow or even to exist. Companies are diverse greatly in protocols, risks, preconditions, and stipulations. Related to the analysis of the basic structure, there are as many different types of safety management systems as there are businesses As an example, in […]
Female Professional in Health and Safety Sector
A female professional is a rare face in safety, particularly in leadership roles. The recent HSE Insights Survey revealed that the gender split ratio in the HSE field currently stands at 3:1 in favor of males. Women make up 42% of the worldwide employed population. An image first comes to mind of a safety professional […]
Is Zero Harm a Feasible Goal For Organizations?
Zero Harm for organizations means: everyone should be injury-free, fit, and well at the end of each shift. It’s a new safety culture movement that focuses on creating an entirely safe environment for employers, employees, contractors, and visitors daily. Zero harm culture has been highly supposed impossible and impractical to achieve. Despite its argumentative character, […]
Contractor Safety Management – Who Is Responsible?
Health and safety law across all countries gives employers and work site owners duties and responsibilities for Contractor Safety Management for their own hired employees as well as for the employees of contractors. Definitions Principal Contractor A person who is appointed to manage, coordinate, and/or implement the work or service involved in the contract and/or […]
Achieving good standards in occupational health and Safety: “Potential barriers”
There are certain specific ‘Potential Barriers’ to upgrading good standards of Occupational Health and Safety because of which organizations might not be able to achieve or maintain safety standards and the well-being of their employees. Occupational safety and health (OSH) is the understanding and knowledge of the estimation, evaluation, and prevention of risk of hazards […]
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING, TRAINER & TRAINEES
“Health & Safety Training” is the most important instrument for preparing workers and safety officers to be aware of workplace hazards and controls so they can create and work in a safe environment and be more productive. Education and training aim to provide workers and officers with a greater sightedness of safety and health knowledge […]
WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES
More than 60% of employees have found some aspects of their jobs to be different from what they had expected. So, if you might be disappointed in the day-to-day differences in “Expectations And Realities” of your workplace management. EXPECTATION: The way you illustrate what happens around you! REALITY: what happens around you! These two are […]
HIDDEN HAZARDS OF WORKPLACE DISASTERS
Workplace risks, especially those that aren’t obvious, or the result of hidden hazards take time to result in poor health, injury, or death. They are mostly ignored since they don’t pose an immediate risk. It’s important to check on regularly these devious dangers. It is observed that ‘lone workers’ are more vulnerable to hidden hazards […]