OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH AND
SAFETY
PROCEDURES

Occupational safety and

health (OSH) is a planned
system of working to prevent
illness and injury where you
work by recognizing and
identifying hazards and risks.

There are three steps to

manage health and safety at
work:
(1.) Spot the Hazard (Hazard
Identification)
(2.) Assess the Risk (Risk
Assessment)
(3.) Make the Changes (Risk
Control)

1. Spot the Hazard

A hazard is anything that could hurt you or
someone else.
Examples of workplace hazards include:
frayed electrical cords (could result in electrical
shock)
boxes stacked precariously (they could fall on
someone)
noisy machinery (could result in damage to your
hearing)

2. Assess the Risk

Assessing the risk means working out how likely it is
that a hazard will harm someone and how serious
the harm could be.
Whenever you spot a hazard, assess the risk by
asking yourself two questions:
How likely is it that the hazard could harm me or
someone else?
How badly could I or someone else be harmed?

3. Make the Changes

It is your employer's responsibility to fix hazards.
Sometimes you may be able to fix simple hazards
yourself, as long as you don't put yourself or others
at risk. For example, you can pick up things from the
floor and put them away to eliminate a trip hazard.

COMMON HAZARDS
ENCOUNTERED BY
COMPUTER
TECHNICIANS AND
USERS

PHYSICAL HAZARD
This type of hazards includes factors
within the environment that can
harm the body without necessarily
touching it.
It can be both natural and human
made elements

MECHANICAL HAZARD
A harmful or danger posing situation that
involves machines mostly in a working
environment
When working on electronic equipment, ask
yourself "Is there any way this equipment
could hurt me? You might stick your hand in
a printer and suddenly the paper feed arm
moves, feeding not only paper through the

CHEMICAL HAZARD
Exist in the form of gases, dust, corrosives,
vapor and liquids. These chemicals can
become dangerous to persons, when inhaled
or absorbed through the skin.

ELECTRIC SHOCK HAZARD

It occur upon contact of a (human) body part
with any source of electricity that causes a
sufficient current through the skin, muscles, or
hair.

BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
Blood
and
other
body
fluids,
fungi/mold, bacteria and viruses,
insect bites and animal and bird
droppings are examples of this
hazard.

SPOT THE HAZARD