Workplace Hazards

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Hazard (A) Falling Person
(B) Types: -Apocopate fall containment equipment: fall
1-Falls From a Height: containment system (safety net systems):
They include falling from buildings, temporary where installed under the surface on which
elevated platforms (Scaffoldings), mobile employees are working (no more than 30 feet
Elevated Work Platforms (MEWP’s), and below)
ladders. - Suitable crawling boards for sloping roofs.
Tasks above Floor Level: cleaning, repairs, “Avoid working at height- ALARP- as low
maintenance, inspections, and installations. reasonably practicable.

Hazard Controls: 2. Slip or Trip (Fall at the Same Level):

-Appropriate fall restrain fall or fall arrest
equipment: e.g. fall or travel restraint device
(life line & seat belt), fall arrest device (full
Outline body harness).
- Types - Barriers, handrails and guardrails (wire mesh,
wooden slat, wire rope) for fall protection
- Consequences
from edge.
- Inspection (unsafe conditions/acts)
-Follow safe work procedure: control zone by
safety monitor
(A) Falling Hazards: - Avoid taking shortcuts
The hazards divide into the two categories: - Provide adequate lighting
(1) Falling objects -Safe suitable work equipment: e.g. mewps
(2) Falling person (Manlift), scaffolding (platform).
Hazard Controls:
-Keep floors cleans clean, dry in good repair
-Implement good housekeeping practices
-Keep all area (floor, pathway, and walkway)
free of obstructions: close doors, laying
cable/wire.
- Use correct manual handing techniques
-Wear apocopate footwear.
- Remove waste regularly
- Use safety/ warring signs and notices (fall
hazard sign) and barricading.
- Use equipment and furniture correctly
- Use step stools and ladders correctly (don’t
stand a ladder on a drum or box, or other
unsteady base.)
-Don’t be in a hurry (opening doors, staircase)

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Hazard (A) Falling Person (Cont…)
3- Falls through on openings to level below or Courses: Safety Requirements:
ground level: - Inappropriate footwear - Regular inspection (keep on records)
They include falls into depths, such as wells, - Untidy work area: obstructions at - Tagging system for unsafe platforms
ditches, excavations; other holes in the pathway. - Training: safe work, inspection, the use of
ground; or fragile roofs and roof openings. - Unexpected movement of equipment full body harness
- Excessive vibration - Rescue plan in case emergency.
Hazard Controls: - Strange winds, wet or ice surface
-Covering for surface openings: the covers - unsafe floor surfaces (uneven, slippery or
must be suitable for their loads (two times the obstructed surfaces, etc)
weight of employees, equipment) - taking shortcuts
-Using guardrail systems for all open-sides.
Consequences:
4. Moving between levels (stairs & escalators) Fall hazard can become a:
Hazard Controls: -Fatal: head injury (brain hemorrhage)
-Handrails for staircase. -Serious injury: fracture, amputation,
-Keep staircases free of obstructions. hospitalization.
-Near Miss: missing last step, loose balance,
5- Falls from moving vehicle or mobile and stumbles.
equipment. -Unsafe Acts/Conditions: taking shortcuts,
being in a hurry, and not holding hand rail.
Hazard Controls: -
- Safe seat.
-Safety belt
-Safety airbags

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Hazard (B) Falling Objects
The Critical Factors:
Any unsecured object at height may be
liable to fall given because one or more of
the following critical factors:
- Moving: sloping surface.
- Vibration
- Push (even from the wind, speed
vehicle, or hitting by another.

Hazard Controls:
Falling Objects from:
- Buildings, scaffolds, and ladders
- Excavation collapse/ cave-ins
- Collapse of ground
- Collapse of poorly stacked materials
- Collapsing or overturning structure
- Load from moving vehicle or mobile
equipment (loading/off-loading activity)
- Keep the tools/wastes far from an
edge or on a sloping surface.
- Use toe-board for temporary elevated
platforms.
- Use safe handling techniques.
- Appropriate PPE: (e.g. safety footwear,
and helmets).
- Secured loads during transportation
and (no slewed over personnel,
vehicles, cabins or huts).
- Don’t use unsafe slings (e.g. broken,
undamaged any chain, corroded,
cracked, broken strand wires, twisted
rope, kinked strands and unscrewing
pins).
- Load capacity (SWL): the slings marked
with its safe working loading.

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