Health and Safety, NEBOSH, OSHA, IOSH, HSE.

What are the government/ global agencies enforcement initiatives on organisations for reporting an accident/incident? What are RNOAD 1996 and RIDDOR 2013? Duty of Care should be exercise at workplace by both Employee and their Organisation. Employee should obey the norms developed and implemented for health and safety. Similarly organisation should provide explicitness / clear cut health and safety procedures, training on these procedures, review for any gaps in the implementation, review to update the procedure and records keeping. Consultation and communication of procedure before and after development is necessary. Similarly need arise for recording, reporting and investigation of an accident/ incident/ disease happened at workplace while doing business by Organsiation to show duty of care, legally compliant etc. Employee should be aware for; in case any reportable accident/incident/ disease (Dangerous occurrence/ fatal/lost time injury) occurred during business then who wil...

What are the types of formula used to compare Health and Safety Performance? Which statistical techniques occupiers can use to analyze accident/incident and ill health?  Is Incident analysis required to compare organisation Health and Safety Performance? You cannot manage, what you cannot measure (.i.e. Peter F Drucker). So measuring health and safety performance is vital for any organisation, country so as to take decisions for further improvements and find the gaps in the existing efforts. Measuring health and safety performance should be quantitative wherever possible. This can be made easy with the help of different formula used by countries like US and UK (HSE and OSHA) to compare health and safety performance. Types of formula used to compare health and safety performance differ from country to country.  However below mentioned formula are common while doing comparison of health and safety performance among country, organisation, states, within ...

What is Violation? What are the types of violation? Mention few examples of types of violations? Violation defined as willful act which is against the rules, norms, standard etc. done by individual worker to complete the task like maintenance, inspection, driving etc. Sometimes these type of violation lead to incident at workplace. Individual involved in the violation injured himself and sometime his act injured others. Violations usually done to complete the task assigned to worker in convenient manner. Maximum time violation done to complete the productivity task . Violations found very common among those who are local residents to the plant premises in comparison to those who are living far from the plant premises. Also violation done by workers as they are not aware of the consequence and they are unaware about the benefits of doing job safely. Violation can be reduced considerably by the way of imparting awareness about health and safety significance, sharing about the con...

What is Human error in accident? What are the types of failure? How accident at workplace happened due to human error? Human error means deviation from set of prescribed actions intended to perform by the worker at workplace for his job results into accident/ incident. Human error can be related with the human behavior. Identification of human error, corrective and preventive actions for mitigating human error can help to reduce the accident / incident at workplace. There are broadly two types of failures .i.e. Active and Latent. Active failures mean failures done by individual worker or operator . These types of failures are direct cause of the accident/ incident and consequence can be seen immediately after the failure. Few examples are as below: Incorrect selection of tools, Wrong switch operated, Over speeding, Fail to isolate the equipment at workplace during maintenance job lead to accident/ incident. ...

What are the key causes of Accident? Who are responsible for preventing accident at workplace? Three key categories are important when we are talking about causes of accident. First cause is Human error, second management failure and third one is lack of Government initiatives. These all three are responsible for preventing accident. Their roles are different however depend on each other. Human error usually understands as a fault of an individual and accident considers to be happened due to his negligence. However this is not the correct answer. Human error can be due to poor ergonomics, due to fatigue at the job etc. Poor ergonomics means poor workstation design or improper good fit between individual and his workplace. Fatigue can be reduced by job rotation, automation of the job, workplace design sometimes also helps in reducing the fatigue. Many examples are present which directly indicates accident happening due to human failure. Some examples are Bhopal Gas Trag...

As we know usually there are two types of monitoring .i.e. Active and reactive. Audit or checking of the health and safety standard is active monitoring system and it is better than reactive because it is working before things go wrong. CHASE stands for Complete Health and Safety evaluation is used as an audit and evaluation system within the organisation as a part of active monitoring (It is a type of Data base management system). It was originally designed for health and safety audit evaluation tool , is now widely accepted in other area of loss like quality, environment etc. CHASE initially developed as a MS-DOS audit manual in 1980. However it is now available in Window format with hand held device for collecting the data. CHASE fits into health and Safety Management standard as below : BS 8800- CHASE fits into measuring performance and auditing aspect. OHSAS 18001- CHASE fits into Checking and corrective action. Key Features of CHASE are as ...

Health and Safety Policy development is first phase of any health and safety management system. i.e. OHSAS 18001, HSG 65 etc. Health and Safety Policy formulation is Plan part of Plan, Do, Check and Act approach (PDCA) . After formulation of the Health and Safety policy organisation has to form action plan to do the tasks. This action plan will fulfill the objective of the policy. Doing with Health and Safety is a legal requirement .i.e. Health and Safety at work act 1974. Also this is an important aspect of demonstrating management commitment towards health and safety.  While formulation of Health and Safety Policy organisation consider where they want to be and which direction we should go.  Health and safety policy helps in achieving many objectives like as mention below: 1-       It helps in showing Management commitment towards health and Safety. 2-       It helps to achieve continuous impr...

OHSAS 18001 stands for Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series. It is globally accepted British standard for health and safety management system. Officially it is known BS OHSAS 18001, here BS stands for British standard. Yes it was first certified health safety management system. Organizations demanded for a unified approach and H&S certification system approach to improve health and safety. This lead to formation of an international collaboration called the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) Project Group and it was formed to create a single unified approach . The Group comprised representatives from national representative bodies , academic bodies, accreditation bodies, certification bodies and occupational safety and health institutions. BS OHSAS 18001:2007 is a health and safety management system standard.  Originally produced in 1999, it was substantially revised in 2007 with substantial input from HSE and aligns quite...

Health and safety management system is beneficial for every type of organization either they are small or big, either dealing with chemicals or transportation. Successful organizations treat Health and Safety as an integral part of business like any other part .i.e. Finance, Maintenance, Production etc. Successful o rganizations do maximum possible efforts to manage health and safety at workplace. Benefits of formal health and safety management system at workplace can be following:     1- H&S Management provides clear structure which clearly indicates who is accountable, who is    responsible for the safe doing of tasks.    2- Use of Expertise team (Multi functional team) which provides structured approach to do risk assessment. 3    3- Planned approach to do the job with respect to health and safety. 4    4- Evidence based approach with respect to health and safety. 5    5- For...