Safety and Health at Work
Safety and Health at Work
AT WORK
Name Roll No.
S. Aishwarya 19MBA091
M.N. Praveen 19MBA092
T. Muthukumar 19MBA094
S. Karthika 19MBA096
P. Maha Nandhini 19MBA096
SAFETY
Safety- a management activity concerned with reducing, controlling
and eliminating hazards.
Responsibility of both employees and employers.
Employer Employees
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NEED FOR SAFETY IN WORKPLACE
Higher productivity.
Increased Efficiency and Quality.
Reduce injuries, disease and fatalities.
Reduced medical and Insurance costs.
Lower workers’ compensation rates and payments.
Improved reputation as an employer of choice.
OBJECTIVE OF OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
To Provide protection
Accident Prevention.
Disease Prevention.
Stress Management.
Wellness programs.
FACTORY ACT
In accordance with the Factories Act 1948, an occupier of an establishment must ensure the
health, safety and welfare of all the workers while they are at work in the factory.
The employer is obliged to take care to protect the worker’s health and safety by providing the
means of rescue, the first aid, and the cleanup; and arrangements and organization of the
workplace.
It is obligatory for an employer/occupier to ensure the provision and maintenance of plant and
systems of work that are safe and without health risks.
Legislation The Workplace Health and
Safety Act
Legislation The Workplace Health and Safety Act. “An Act to promote occupational health
and safety in the Territory to prevent workplace injuries and diseases, to protect the health
and safety of the public in relation to work activities, to promote the rehabilitation and
maximum recovery from incapacity of injured workers, to provide financial compensation
to workers incapacitated from workplace injuries or diseases and to the dependants of
workers who die as the results of such injuries or diseases, to establish certain bodies and a
fund for the proper administration of the Act, and for related purposes.”
HEALTH
As defined by WHO, health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well
being and absence of disease.
This health in working environment can be maintained according to factory act by considering
various factors like Cleanliness, Disposal of wastes and effluents , Ventilation and temperature ,
Dust and fume , Lighting ,Drinking water ,Spittoons, Good Machine Health and Good Work
Practice .
CLEANLINESS
Every factory shall be kept clean and free from effluvial arising from any drain,
or other nuisance, and in particular :
I. Accumulation of dirt shall be removed daily by sweeping or by any other
effective method;
II. The floor of every workroom shall be cleaned at least once in every week by
washing, using disinfectant;
III. Effective drainage shall be provided.
Wastewater should be properly treated through ETP Plant and should be given
out to the sewages.
ETP Plant
VENTILATION AND TEMPERATURE
Effective and suitable provisions shall be made in every factory for
maintaining in every workroom ;
The circulation of fresh air by adequate ventilation.
All glazed windows and skylights used for the lighting of the workrooms shall
be kept clean.
The government may prescribe standards of sufficient and suitable lighting for
factories or for any manufacturing process.
DRINKING WATER
In every factory, effective arrangements shall be made to provide and maintain
at a suitable points for supply of wholesome drinking water.
In every factory, wherein more than two hundred workers are employed,
provisions shall be made for cooling drinking water during hot weather.
DRINKING WATER AT WORKPLACE
SPITTOONS
In every factory, there shall be provided a sufficient number of spittoons in
suitable places and maintained in a clean and hygienic condition.
The State Government may make rules prescribing the type and numbers of
spittoons to be provided in any factory and maintenance in a clean and hygienic
condition.
GOOD MACHINE HEALTH
Periodical Machine Audits should be done so as to find Major Flaws and Minor
Flaws if any.
History Card, OPL’s and Kaizens should be recorded and preserved near Machine
for easy references.
GOOD WORK PRACTICE
Ensure proper Operation of Machine as per process mentioned by the OEM.