Workplace safety encompasses various hazards that can lead to health issues or accidents if not managed properly. Chemical hazards arise from exposure to substances that can cause acute or chronic health effects, including respiratory problems and skin irritation.
Occur when are exposed to chemicals in solid liquid and gaseous forms
Common chemicals can cause skin irritation and breathing problems to some workers who are more sensitive
explosive chemical and flammable materials.
Welding fumes
Paints acids chemicals and cleaning products.
Chemical hazards
That risk likely to be produced by an uncontrolled exposure to chemical agents which can produce acute or chronic effects and the appearance of diseases
Ergonomic risk example
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improper lifting, etc.
Poor ilumination
Awkward and poor potures
Ergonomic hazard depend on
Working postures
Working conditions
Ergonomic Hazards
Accidents
Unplanned and unwanted event that causes damage, injury or other negative impact on an object or subject.
Near miss
Someone was lucky and they might not be so lucky next time. With the investigation and treatment of these types of incidents, it is possible to identify situations of unknown risk or of underestimated seriousness, without waiting for it to materialize in damage to the worker.
Come from animal and infectious plant materials.
Example of biological Hazards
Bird and animal droppings
fungi
insect brites
Virus
Bacteria
The biological hazards can cause diseases and illnes because of working in
veterinary offices
Nursing homes
hotel laundries
hospitals
Unhealthy enviroments
Biological Hazards
Exposure to microorganisms that can give rise to diseases, motivated by work activity. Its transmission can be through the respiratory, digestive, blood, skin or mucous membranes.
Physical Hazards
Risk
Probability of a hazard turning into a disaster. Vulnerability or threats alone do not pose a danger. But if they come together, they become a risk, that is, the probability that a disaster will occur.
Hazard
Situation that produces a level of threat to life, health, property or the environment. It is characterized by the viability of the occurrence of a potentially harmful incident, that is, an event capable of creating damage to protected legal assets.