OHS Professionals

Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPE’s) Personal protective equipment’s (Safety helmet, shoes, coverall, goggles and ear plugs) are used when other control measure has been proved to be useful. It is considered as the last line of defense in the hierarchy of control. Eye and Face Protection – Safety Glasses Only approved safety glasses that meet regulatory (i.e., OSHA) and ANSI requirements shall be worn by site employees.   The frames shall be plastic and the lenses shall be impact resistant.   Side shields are required. Safety glasses shall be imprinted with Z87.1 to illustrate the glasses meet the regulatory and ANSI standard. Employees who wear prescription glasses shall wear safety glasses that incorporate their prescription into the lens or shall wear protection over their prescription glasses.   Over protection shall be plastic and impact resistant and shall display the Z87.1 stamp. For protection from bright sunlight or injurious light radiation, safet...

A Safety Officer, also known as an Occupational Health and Safety Officer, is a key professional in the work environment. Safety Officers provide safety management, advice, monitoring and reporting in the workplace, and engage staff in programs that ensure safe practice in the workplace. Safety Officer Job Description Template We are looking to employ a qualified and competent Safety Officer who will be responsible for the health and safety of staff in the workplace. The Safety Officer will compile safety programs and standardize them to remain consistent, as well as share best practice techniques at regular staff meetings. To ensure success as a Safety Officer, you must stay updated with the latest trends in health and safety, and consistently implement these practices in the workplace. Ultimately, a top-notch Safety Officer will maintain compliance with all safety regulations and ensure that every member of staff complies with the regulated standards. Safety Officer Responsib...

  Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Tool Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic, proactive method for evaluating a process to identify where and how it might fail and to assess the relative impact of different failures, in order to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. FMEA includes review of the following: Steps in the process Failure modes (What could go wrong?) Failure causes (Why would the failure happen?) Failure effects (What would be the consequences of each failure?) Teams use FMEA to evaluate processes for possible failures and to prevent them by correcting the processes proactively rather than reacting to adverse events after failures have occurred. This emphasis on prevention may reduce risk of harm to both patients and staff. FMEA is particularly useful in evaluating a new process prior to implementation and in assessing the impact of a proposed change to an existing process. Background Failure Modes ...

Event tree analysis ( ETA ) is a forward, top-down, logical modeling technique for both success and failure that explores responses through a single initiating event and lays a path for assessing probabilities of the outcomes and overall system analysis. This analysis technique is used to analyze the effects of functioning or failed systems given that an event has occurred.   ETA is a powerful tool that will identify all consequences of a system that have a probability of occurring after an initiating event that can be applied to a wide range of systems including: nuclear power plants, spacecraft,  and chemical plants. This technique may be applied to a system early in the design process to identify potential issues that may arise, rather than correcting the issues after they occur. With this forward logic process, use of ETA as a tool in risk assessment can help to prevent negative outcomes from occurring, by providing a risk assessor with the probability of occurrence...

  Fault tree analysis  ( FTA ) is a top-down,  deductive  failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analyzed using  Boolean logic  to combine a series of lower-level events. This analysis method is mainly used in  safety engineering  and  reliability engineering  to understand how systems can fail, to identify the best ways to reduce risk and to determine (or get a feeling for) event rates of a safety accident or a particular system level (functional) failure. FTA is used in the aerospace , nuclear power ,  chemical and process , pharmaceutical , petrochemical and other high-hazard industries; but is also used in fields as diverse as risk factor identification relating to  social service  system failure. FTA is also used in software engineering for debugging purposes and is closely related to cause-elimination technique used to detect bugs. In aerospace, the more general term "system failure con...

  What are the five steps to risk assessment? The Health and Safety Executives (HSE) advises employers to follow five steps when carrying out a workplace risk Assessment: Step 1: Identify hazards, i.e. anything that may cause harm. Employers have a duty to assess the health and safety risks faced by their workers. Your employer must systematically check for possible physical, mental, chemical and biological hazards. This is one common classification of hazards: Physical: e.g. lifting, awkward postures, slips and trips, noise, dust, machinery, computer equipment, etc. Mental: e.g. excess workload, long hours, working with high-need clients, bullying, etc. These are also called 'psychosocial' hazards, affecting mental health and occurring within working relationships. Chemical: e.g. asbestos, cleaning fluids, aerosols, etc. Biological: including tuberculosis, hepatitis and other infectious diseases faced by healthcare wor...

To Calculate - LTIFR (Loss Time Injury Frequency Rate). - LTIFR = No. of LTI in Accounting Period * 200,000 / Total number of man-hours worked by all employees in this calendar year. - Description: 200,000 is standard OSHA Base Rate. It is acquired by multiplying 100 workers working for 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. 200,000= 100 x 40 x 50  

  Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) Hydrogen Sulphide  is a colorless , flammable, extremely hazardous gas with a “rotten egg” smell. Some common names for the gas include sewer gas, stink damp, swamp gas and manure gas. It occurs naturally in crude petroleum, natural gas, and hot springs. In addition, hydrogen Sulphide  is produced by bacterial breakdown of organic materials and human and animal wastes (e.g., sewage). Industrial activities that can produce the gas include petroleum/natural gas drilling and refining, wastewater treatment, coke ovens, tanneries, and craft  paper mills. Hydrogen Sulphide  can also exist as a liquid compressed gas Hazardous properties of H2S gas Hydrogen Sulphide  is heavier than air and may travel along the ground. It collects in low-lying and enclosed, poorly-ventilated areas such as basements, manholes, sewer lines, underground telephone vaults and manure pits. For work within confined spaces, use appropriate procedures for i...