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Topics
1. What is Safety?
2. What safety means
3. The Importance of safety
4. Responsibility
5. Where safety is applicable
6. Why accidents occur
7. Unsafe Act
8. Unsafe condition
9.Education & Enforcement
10.Accident Reaction & Prevention
11.Responding to an accident
12. Investigation on accident
13. Taking corrective action
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1.What is Safety?

Safety is the state of being “safe”, the

condition of being protected from danger,
risk, or injury.

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2. What safety means

o preventing accidents from occurring.

o a complete understanding of your work
and knowledge of every step.
o good judgment. Never rely on luck;

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3. The Importance of Safety

Can you imagine the knock on the door to tell

you your loved one will never be returning home?
Or the phone call to say he’s in the hospital and
may never walk again?

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3. The Importance of Safety

Every person who leaves for work should expect

to return home in good health. This is the most
important reason to create a safe and healthy
work environment.

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2. What safety means

o preventing accidents from occurring.

o a complete understanding of your work
and knowledge of every step.
o good judgment. Never rely on luck;

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 4. Responsibility

o Safety is the responsibility

of every person to take
reasonable care for the
safety of himself and other
human beings and the
surroundings .

o Nobody could not be

affected by his acts or
omissions.

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5. Where Safety is applicable

 Safety is applicable for all places.

 The important thing to remember is that

any working environment is a potentially
dangerous place.

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6. Why accidents occurs?

o Accidents don’t “just happen”

o Accidents always have causes
o Accidents are caused by unsafe acts as
well as unsafe condition.

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7. Unsafe Act

Performance of activity
that is conducted in a
manner that may
threaten the health /
safety

88% of all accidents are caused by unsafe

acts

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8. Unsafe Condition

Unsafe conditions are

hazards that have the
potential to cause injury
or death to an
employee

10% of all accidents are caused by unsafe

Conditions
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Examples of unsafe Act:

 Operating equipment without training.

 Lack of attention
 Lack of/ or improper use of PPE.
 Bypass or removal of safety devices
 Using defective equipment
 Using Cell phones during working
 Horseplay, Distracting, teasing, joking, quarreling,
and annoying at workplaces

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Examples of unsafe conditions:

o Working at elevated places.

o Improper earthing.
o Unguarded floor openings, and excavations.
o Exposed live supply.
o Improper illumination.
o Constrained location.
o Unsafe design and construction.

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9. Education and Enforcement

There are two steps to eliminate unsafe

acts:
1. Cultivate through safety education and
training
2. enforcement
 With proper instruction, training and education,
we can reduce accidents
 When workers fail to follow the rules,
enforcement of the rules becomes necessary

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10. Accident Reaction and Prevention

 It’s important that Accident Prevention is

part of reacting to an accident

 To prevent future occurrences, accidents

are usually handled in
three stages:
 Accident Response
 Accident Investigation
 Corrective Actions

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11. Responding to an Accident
 The first priority when responding to an
accident is to make sure other workers
are safe from harm and tending to anyone
who might have been injured
 It’s important to secure the scene after an
accident, to make sure no one else gets
hurt
 It’s also important not to disturb anything
that could help in the Accident
Investigation

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12. Investigating an Accident
 Investigation should be find out the root causes of an
accident . When a shortcoming is identified, it is
important to ask why it existed and why it was not
previously addressed.
 If a procedure or safety rule was not followed, why was
the procedure or rule not followed?
 Did production pressures play a role, and, if so, why were
production pressures permitted to jeopardize safety?
 Was the procedure out‐of‐date or safety training
inadequate? If so, why had the problem not been
previously identified, or, if it had been identified, why
had it not been addressed?

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13. Taking Corrective Actions

 Collect information

 Identify the root cause.

 Develop an action plan

 Implement the corrective action

 Monitor the progress of the plan

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Summary

safety means every person who leaves for work

should expect to return home in good health

Safety is the responsibility of everybody

Safety is applicable for all places

Accidents are caused by unsafe acts as well as

unsafe condition

Accidents are usually handled in three stages:

 Response , Investigation and Corrective Actions

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