Health and Safety- Potential Hazards in Health and Social Care Task 1: A hazard is something that is considered to be dangerous and has the potential to harm an individual or others around them. A risk has two separate explanations‚ how likely it is for something dangerous to hurt an individual‚ and the severity of harm that it can inflict upon someone. Usually the severity and likelihood of a risk is dependent upon the age of the person as older people and younger people are the most vulnerable
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Step 1: Identify the hazards: First you need to work out how people could be harmed. When you work in a place every day it is easy to overlook some hazards‚ so here are some tips to help you identify the ones that matter: * Walk around your workplace and look at what could reasonably be expected to cause harm. * Ask your employees or their representatives what they think. They may have noticed things that are not immediately obvious to you. * Visit the HSE website. HSE publishes practical
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the activity above‚ below and on the ground at a construction worksite can create hazards for your employees and for contractor employees. One way to protect your employees is by providing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). The General Duty Clause of the OSH Act indicates that the employer"shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees
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the term hazard. A hazard is the presence of a risky situation or a condition that is a prerequisite for a mishap. 6. What is the purpose of preliminary hazard analysis? The goal is to identify and eliminate hazards before they can become accidents‚ or losses‚ throughout the life cycle of the project or activity 7. Explain why experience and related expertise are so important when conducting a preliminary hazard analysis. 8. Why is cost-benefit analysis so critical as a part of hazard analysis
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Payment for protective equipment.................................................................................. 3 RESPONSIBILITIES....................................................................................................... 3 HAZARD ASSESSMENT................................................................................................ 4 TRAINING ...................................................................................................................... 4 General
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another way natural hazard mitigation can be viewed. The ecological perspective to natural hazard mitigation in semi-arid remains unearthed. The aim of the article was to provide academic literature that could inform and broaden natural hazard mitigation views on environment and human linkages. Ziziphus mauritiana value chain and ANT explored and underpinned the study. The study presented‚ how Ziziphus mauritiana value chain and actors involved explain the complex ntural hazard mitigation discourse
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PRENSENTATON TOPIC: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS (Psychological hazards) Psychological hazards s a working condition that can leads to illness‚ injury or death. Is any condition of job‚ at job place that can result in illness or injury. OR Is a risk that is peculiar to a particular type of employment or workplace that arises as a natural incidence of such employment Hazard is any situation‚ condition or things that may be dangerous to the safety or
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and coastal hazards. This paper outlines a methodology for applying the Australian Standard for Risk Management (AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009) to coastal zone management as prescribed within the various NSW Government guidelines. Steps within the risk management framework‚ such as ‘identifying the risks’‚ ‘analysing risk likelihood and consequence’‚ ‘prioritising the risks’‚ and ‘risk treatment’‚ can be applied to various phases of the coastal zone management process. Coastal hazards may be defined
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IGC2 - Element 8 - Physical and psychological health hazards and risk control March 2012 Licence details NEBOSH International General Certificate Copyright RMS IGC Second Edition - IGC2 Element 8 - v.1.0 - Slide 1 860400 RMS Publishing Victoria House‚ Lower High Street‚ Stourbridge DY8 1TA © RMS Publishing. Second Edition March 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this presentation may be stored in a retrieval system‚ reproduced‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means‚
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internal configuration such that an entrant count be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor which slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross-section. And finally‚ Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard. The general requirements of a confined space as designated by CRR 1910.146 are as follows. The employer shall evaluate the workplace to determine if any spaces are permit-required confined spaces. If the workplace does contain permit spaces‚ the
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