OCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS FACING MINE WORKERS (Experience from Anglogold Ashanti mines‚ Geita Gold Mine in Geita Tanzania) By HAMENYA KASASE Introduction Mining works have always been among the most hazardous works that demands the health of many people in the industrial world today. Health and safety of many workers particularly those who work directly in mining production and engineering is always at greater risks and thus requires much attention. This paper describes the prevailing situation
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NVQ 2 Health and safety 1.1 Legislation that relates to the Health and safety in a social care setting are the following: Health and Safety At Work Act 1974 The Workplace (Health‚ Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 The Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
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Introducing Health and Safety - Office Skills Series 2 1. What are an employer’s responsibilities when it comes to the health and safety of workers? They must provide a safe and healthy workplace by identifying the hazard‚ assessing the risk and controlling the risk 2. What are an employee’s responsibilities when it comes to health and safety in the workplace? Cooperate with employer and any safety plan that has been set by that workplace in a given situation 3. If a potential hazard is identified
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PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT Protection of workers against occupational hazards can be achieved by the following order of priority : 1. Elimination 2. Engineering Control 3. Administrative Control 4. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) ELIMINATION The presence of hazards that can cause physical and health effect to workers can be eliminated by : Substituting hazardous tool Machinery Chemical substances and the process that are less hazardous ENGINEERING CONTROL
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This discussion is on three significant practices that promote health and safety in early childhood centres. I will explain the role of an early childhood teacher identifying and implementing health and safety in the centre according to the Licensing Criteria for Early Childhood and Care Centre 2008. “When parents enroll their children in a program‚ they expect them to be safe” (Marotz‚ Cross & Rush‚ 2005‚ p 193). The early years of children comprise of major growth changes‚ these changes will
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that the employees is wearing proper and safety equipment but as well as the usage of the proper technique and way of doing the job . On the other hand ‚ the proper attire is very important in places wherein employees are expose to hazardous chemicals such as in laboratories and thus ‚ it the managers responsibility to ensure that proper attires are used in the workplace . Every work has its own safety precautions that should be applied in to ensure the safety of the employees Also ‚ it is also the
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The name of the agency that I researched was the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The FMCSA is a regulatory agency. The title of the agency is “Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications: Diabetes.” The Date of the regulation was April 12. This is a rule that was proposed by FMCSA to renew the exemptions of 130 individuals from its ruling that prohibits people with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus from operating commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce. This regulation
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nurses there‚ causing an uncomfortable environment and putting his safety and other safety on the line. I have always heard of patient abuse‚ patient neglect‚ patients being sexually abuse‚ etc.… but I have hardly ever heard about staff mistreatment from patients‚ patient’s family members‚ and other staff. In my first semester of nursing‚ I was taught to treat patients with courtesy‚ respect‚ and care and most importantly‚ their safety. But we were only taught once on ways to protect ourselves from
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that may make health‚ safety‚ and security more difficult to maintain. Most young children are usually interested them self and curious of what’s around them and usually do not really affect health and safety. But some children inherit characteristics that do affect characteristics that do affect health and safety these children are usually have short attention spans and often quite hyper. Below are explanation of some children characteristics that may affect health and safety. ADHD (Attention
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Explain potential hazards and harm that they may arise from each in a health and social care setting (P1) There are lots of hazards that may occur in health and social care settings‚ these hazards pose risks of harm that effect specific service user groups. The essay is based on a private residential care home for the elderly with dementia‚ these people have mobility issues and other health issues associated with old age‚ e.g. high blood pressure and diabetes. There are 20 residents with 8 permanent
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