SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Safety Management System

Safety Management System

Discussion and Analysis

Impact of Occupational Health and Safety

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 (Culp, 2001, p. 42).

Principles Of Prevention

Workers are entitled to effective protection of safety and health. This right implies the existence of a corresponding duty on employers to protect workers from occupational hazards. In compliance with the duty of protection, the employer must ensure the safety and health of all workers at your service in all aspects of the work performed. The idea on which sits the promotion of workers' health is the prevention, understood as the set of activities or actions taken or planned at all stages of business activity in order to avoid or reduce the risks of work. The objective pursued is to eliminate risks before they can materialize. Prevention should be born in the same time of project design and expand business throughout life and activity of the company (Ladou, Joseph, 2006, p. 65-66). The corporate responsibility to take all measures that make up this general duty of prevention should be articulated in accordance with the following general principles (Article 15 of the Prevention of Occupational Risks):

Avoid risk.

Assess the risks that can not be avoided.

Combating risks at source.

Adapting the work to the person.

Consider the evolution of technology.

Replacing the dangerous by involving little or no hazard.

Prevention plan.

Adopt measures that put the collective over individual protection.

Giving appropriate instructions to workers (Ladou, Joseph, 2006, p. 65-66).

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 (Culp, 2001, p. 42).

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. According to accident statistics down plans, campaigns and ...