Unit 1 Outhm Level 3 - Saqib Javed
Unit 1 Outhm Level 3 - Saqib Javed
Unit 1 Outhm Level 3 - Saqib Javed
UNIT #1
BY SAQIB JAVED
UNIT :1- Understand the requirements for
health & safety, welfare in the working
environment.
1) Duties of Employers:
•The employers has to maintain all the
check & balance of equipment PPE'S & safe
system of work in the filed.
• Employers has to carry out the risk
assessment report of the equipment,
hazards using there in order to knowing the
risk levels.
• It has to convey its information in all
languages, training instructions, So all of
the employees could understand well
about safety at work place.
•Employer has to provide all the welfare
facilities at the work place.
2) Duties of Employees:
•It is also a responsibility of employees or
worker individually to take care of health &
safety by own self & also of their
colleagues at the work place.
•They has to follow the policy's rule &
regulations of the company or employers
to maintain the safety at work place.
3) Enforcement :
•The HSE Health Safety Executive has own
policy & rules regulations they has safety
control teams which can inspection
physically on work place to investigate the
incident or accident on the site & all
control measurements.
•They has authority to take any action
against responsible of damage cause.
•HSE team has fully authority to issuing the
legal notices of any improvement requires,
and on prohibition, to the company.
4) First aid:
•Giving first aid facility to the
employees.
•Providing training & instructions of
first aid treatment.
•Providing them first aid kits & all the
measurement necessary needed.
1) Cleanliness:
•In the company the Employers or HR
supervisor are responsible to ensure all the
cleaning of areas, floor, machine to avoid
any slip, & trip. Making good keeping so the
work place is comfortable and safe.
3) Lighting:
•In the workplace the lightning should be
sufficient suitable balance that its doesn’t
irritate eyes & visible for the worker.
•Special eyes protecting light should be
installed with levels.
4) Water facility:
•At the workplace suitable drinking water
should be there with the season wise.
5) Pregnant women:
•In workplace if any woman is pregnant
its employers responsibilities to take
care of her & replace her with another
worker.
•Providing them special rest area &
drinking water.
•Be ensure about changing & replacing
of their shift duty with other
employees.
6) Washroom Facility:
• In the workplace its employers duty is to
provide Washrooms which should be in
large number as compared to the workers
in company.
•Proper cleanliness, sanitized & well
maintain its should be.
•The other facilities such as soap, hands
washer, sanitizer, & basins should be
provided by employers.
7) Visitors:
•In the company if any outsider, contractor,
visitors visit a company its employers duty
to facilitate them providing guidance,
information, & waiting areas.
•Giving training to the new employees
before giving them tasks.
8) Safe workplace:
•It is a employers duty to give employees
good PPE'S, maintain safe work provision.
•Providing them special mock training
exercises if any natural, or accident occurs.
•Emergency alarming system, emergency
exits routes, & emergency safety
equipment’s should be there for any
emergency situations.
3) Safety signs:
•In company proper signs symbol board,
charts should be display visible for the
workers.
•Hazards, emergency exits, safety routes
should display well .
5) Emergency drill:
•Employers has to arrange such a
emergency drill so the worker should know
& well prepared for any emergency case.
•such as fire drill, natural disaster etc.
6) Feedback & Review:
• The company has to provide manually or
any channel where worker give them opinion
& review .
•If any improvement needed with the help
of worker reviews company will know.
7) Inspection audit :
•The manager , supervisor or safety officer
duty is to check & balance of safety
measurement.
•They has to visit sites area by physical
inspection.
•Monthly or weekly basis continues their
inspection audits.
•If any improvement, correction needed
they has authority to fix it.
8) Reporting :
• The environment should be provided
as freedom openly so if any incident,
accident, or nearmiss happens then
worker report it easily without any
hesitation.
•After report or any achievement
employers should award him to
encourage his moral.
9) Induction Training:
•New recruitment at least 1month or
weeks manager duty is to give training &
instructions before on job.
•Telling them about health & safety policy.
•Good communication with them so all
them understand instructions comfortably.
12) Transportation:
•It is employers or company base facility if
they are financially good , they can arrange
transport service for worker.
•such as pick & drop service, or giving flight
Tickets, or any other work assigned by
them.
1.5(The main causes of injuries illness
health at work).
Injuries illness is now major issues
everywhere on workplace. Negligence of
safety measurement can causes illness
health issues. Injuries can be causes on the
site on some of our mistakes.
Some of the causes are listed.
2) Hazardous materials:
•In company there is many substance or
materials which can cause serious reaction
like chemicals, injuries, infection, diseases,
For this purpose use of PPE'S is necessary
in use of worker.
3) Ergonomic Effects:
• In the workplace repetition of tasks doing
same work all the days can cause pain in
our shoulder, neck, backbone, & other
body parts,
•Such as doing desk job, or operating
machine can cause ergonomic effects.
•For avoiding ergonomic effects employers
has to replace or change the shifts with the
Other workers to reduce in this effects.
5) Manual handling:
•The employees without any training
picking up heavy things in appropriate way
It can cause pain in their muscle, back,
hands, & can cause stress, & injuries.
•Health issues can be effects on his daily
routine working days & can cause to leaves.
6) Electricity:
•The electricity is hazard all the wiring,
equipment using electricity is hazard.
• In the company exposure of electrical
wires, or any shortage of electric machine
if someone direct in contact with it he cab
can face major or fatal injuries.
•It is a very common & most dangerous
hazard in the workplace.
7) Maintenance:
•In the company maintenance is very
necessary of machine, workplace, & also of
the workers.
•Mostly accident occurs due to improper
use of machines, operating.
•Maintenance of machines is also needed
because its can cause accident or incident
if any error is there it can carry out in
maintenance before use which reduce the
chance of accident.
8) Communication Errors:
•In company mostly people come to job
different parts of world, may be some of
Them not understand language then may be
it can cause incident.
•Sometimes the safety instructor doesn’t
conveys his message to worker how to use of
machines with safier ways, its may be leads
to accident.
9) Work area :
• It is a employers duty to provide safe
working environment where worker feel
comfortable.
•Ventilation ,cooling perfect room
temperature should be provided .
•Rest area’s drinking water should be in
place of work.
10) No reports :
• In the company if some of worker reports
any incident or any hazards but employers
doesn’t take any action so next time may
Be no one report.
•If there is no reporting system employers
will never know how to do improvement.
•It will leads to more accidents, & deaths,
financial losses.
•Reputation & trust will lose by the
company.
1) Financial loss:
•If any accident occurred on the site both
employers & employees will face financial
loss.
•Employers paying hospital bills, insurance
Of the worker & also facing the damages
cost on the workplace.
•If anyone’s died on the site then
employers has to give insurance, or
compensation to his family, which costs a
lot .
2) Legal penalties :
•The employers can face the prosecution,
judiciary if any employees complain against
him.
•If they founded any sort of illegal activities
Or any violation than they can also face
prison & fines by the court.
•At the workplace any injured person can
claim insurance or compensation.
3) Reputation loss:
•In the company if again & again accident
happening with passage of time they will
Lose their reputation the trust of customer,
clients on them.
•May be no one make deal with them
again.
•Negative impact will be on the public so
may be no one buy their products.
4) Decrease in production:
•When no one believing, trusting on that
employers or company due to large scale
accident reporting.
•Nobody , investor will invest in that
company he won’t take a risk on it.
•Automatically it will reduce in production
if no one is going to buy their products.
7) Insurance :
•The number of accidents increase the
number of injuries, death which will
increase the insurance policies claiming.
•This will again impact on company
employers financially.
8) Injuries, death:
•In the organization accidents, incidents,
nearmiss, causes injuries, fracture bones,
disability, mental issues, which is direct
cost on employers & employees.
•In medical bills, hospital bill, if any of it
Receive death then all the cost will pay by
the employers it will financially lost to him.
9) Family facing :
•When the single person doing job in
company & receive death in accident
then it will effects on his family too.
•Mostly family single mothers doing &
searching for jobs.
•Family receive tension burdens of
house stability financially.
•Fulfilling the needs & requirements of
the family which may be difficult for the
single mother after the death of head of
family.
2) Stakeholders:
• Identifying stakeholders such as
supervisor, HR, manager, saftey officer,
union leaders, the middle body of
organization ensuring & visiting the all the
safety measures are taken or not it is there
Duty to check & balance the safety
precautions.
3) Monitoring :
•The middle level has duty to visit &
physical inspection time to time in working
hours in order to know all the saftey
measures are following or not.
•Its their responsibility to implement
safety precautions.
5) Assigning Responsibilities:
•It is a manager duty to assigns
responsibilities duty to everyone.
•Best way is to display duty schedule on
the board so for everyone it is easy to
understand their responsibilities.
6) Regular Meetings:
•The middle body has to manage small
meeting or tool box talk with the
employees for any update regarding to the
saftey & health.
•If any issue is between the employees so
they can share & discuss with them.
•Exchanging information & making friendly
relations so employees trust on middle
level.
7) Standardize procedures:
•In the organization employers has to
ensure all the policies rules regulations
Standardize & should be followed by
everyone in the organization it should be
Follow & easy to understand .
9) Emergency Drills:
•At the workplace conducting emergency
drill for preparing the employees for any
natural or technical emergency in company.
•So they can prepare themselves how to
handle these types emergencies, such as fire,
earthquake, short circuit, accident etc
11) Celebration :
•In the company small celebration should
be there. Celebrate happiness with the
others it is good for safety & health.
•Achievements of organization they should
celebrate & arrange small ceremony party
for employees to enjoy.
12) New recruitment training:
•When the new worker is hired before job
training induction is necessary for him.
•Before assigning him job trained him well
Which will reduce the risk of incident.
13) Records :
• Every organization has to maintain the
record of employees activities, machines,
Incidents, accident, damages, computerize
Record of it, investigation reports, .
•Making record is necessary for reducing
these activities in future.