Health and Safety

Health and Safety

Safety and Health Standards

The basic rules of safety and health in the workplace significantly determine the general conditions of work are a set of measures to protect the health of workers, prevent accidents and promote the care of the machinery, tools and materials with which we work. The rules are specified in a set of common sense practices where the key element is the responsible attitude and awareness of all the people it affects.

The implementation of these aspects increase the sense of safety and health of workers and professionals reduce the risks of accidents and diseases at work. Companies must keep a proper record in a book and visa all employment claims that are produced indicating the date, time, parties and persons affected and type of accident severity: mild, severe, or fatal. With the registration of occupational accidents statistics down workplace accidents at company level and above other areas geographically (Holdsworth, 2003, 73-88). According to accident statistics down plans, campaigns and projects for preventing accidents.

Health and Safety Preventive Action

The protection of workers against occupational hazards requires action in the company that goes beyond the mere formal compliance with a predetermined set more or less comprehensive, duties and obligations of business and, indeed, the simple correction to subsequent risk situations and expressed. Prevention planning from the time of project design business, the initial assessment of occupational risks and regularly updated as circumstances are altered, the management of a coherent and globalization of appropriate preventive action measures to nature of the identified risks and monitoring the effectiveness of these measures constitute the basic elements of the new approach in the prevention of occupational hazards. And next to it, complete with information and training of workers led to a better understanding of both the real extent of the risks of the work and how to prevent and avoid, so adapted to the peculiarities of each site work, the characteristics of people that he developed his work performed and actual activities.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act covers 6 million workplaces and 90 million employees in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and other U.S. territories and commonwealths. The conditions of the act do not apply to workplaces that have state or federal agency-prescribed occupational safety and health standards. To comply with OSHA requirements, employers must follow the act's two provisions: (1) to keep the workplace free of hazards likely to cause death or serious harm and (2) to abide by the implemented OSHA standards that include maintaining safe conditions and adopting safe practices to reduce workplace hazards (Various authors, 2007, 45).

The act empowers, employers, and employees in the creation of a safe, hazard-free environment. Employers are required to inform employees about their numerous rights under OSHA. Across the country, OSHA informational posters are tacked onto lunchroom bulletin boards, in coffee rooms, or in visible, high-traffic work areas. Employees have numerous rights under OSHA, including petitioning for a new standard, serving on a standards advisory ...