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What are the 3 principles of WSHA replacing Factories Act from 1 March 2006?
Reducing risk at source by requiring all stakeholders to eliminate or minimize the risk they create at the workplace
Instilling greater industry ownership of OSH standards. The focus will be shifted from complying with the prescriptive requirements to making employers responsible for developing work and safety procedures suited to their particular situations in order to achieve desired safety outcome
Preventing accidents through higher penalties for poor safety and health management
Preventing accidents through lower penalties for poor safety and health management
What are the key changes WSHA replaces the factories act from 1 March 2006?
It specifies liabilities for a range of persons at the workplace instead of focusing on the occupier.
It focuses on effective management of workplace safety and health to achieve a safe outcome instead of prescribing rules.
It stipulates greater penalties for compromising safety and health.
Greater government intervention, more prescriptive rules and heavier penalties.
What does WSH Act covers?
All workplaces, unless exempted
Responsibilities of stakeholders
Hazardous substances
Machinery and equipment
Including Veterinary activities, Healthcare activities, Hotels and restaurants, what other new sectors are covered in the expanded WSH Act in Mar 2008?
Services allied to the transport of goods, such as logistics, freight forwarding and cargo surveying services
Landscape care and maintenance service activities, such as grass-cutting
Water supply, sewerage and waste management, such as refuse disposal
Military force
What is the new principles?
To change Mindsets & culture
To change Mindsets & Community
To change Thinking & Culture
To change Thinking & Community
What are the WSH four key features?
It places responsibilities on stakeholders who have it within their control to ensure safety at the workplace.
It focuses on workplace safety and health systems and outcomes, rather than merely on compliance.
It facilitates effective enforcement through the issuance of remedial orders.
It imposes higher penalties for non-compliance and risky behaviour.
No jail term for offenders
Who are the stakeholders?
Employer: As an employer, you must protect the safety and health of your employees or workers working under your direction, as well as persons who may be affected by their work.
Principal: A principal is any person or organisation who engages another person or organisation to supply labour or perform work under a contract for service.
Occupier: In workplaces registered or notified as a factory, the occupier is the person who holds the certificate of registration. In all other workplaces, the occupier is the person who has control of the premises, regardless of whether they are the owner of those premises.
Manufacturer or supplier: As a manufacturer or supplier, you must ensure that any machinery and equipment or hazardous substances you provide are safe.
Employee and self-employed
From managing risk to identifying & eliminating risks before they are created.
(a)
From compliance with "Letter of the Law" to proactive planning to achieve a safe workplace.
(a)
From accidents are costly to poor safety management is costlier.
(a)
What are the pointers for critical area (Effective governance and enforcement)?
A Flexible and Practical Regulatory Framework
Delivering Practical Assistance
Robust Inspection Framework
Elevating awareness of WSH among new sectors
What are the delivering practical assistance?
Approved Code of practice (ACOP)
Guidelines (GL)
Technical Advisories (TA)
Technical Bulletin (TB)
Reactive > Participative > Proactive > Progressive > ?
(a)
How to create a progressive and pervasive WSH Culture?
5 levels of safety outcome
say "NO" to risks at work
Elevating awareness of WSH among new sectors
Education
How to elevate awareness of WSH among new sectors?
A year long engagement programme for face-to-face outreach to new sectors
Gureilla-style awareness building
Performances in companies/ association events
Introduce monthly events for WSH
How to embrace new challenges in safety and health?
Education
Creates and enhances WSH knowledge for our stakeholders
Competition
Ranking
why was Factories Act not effective? and why WSHA replace it?
It imposed liability primarily on the registered factory occupier.
The WSHA assigns legal responsibility to those who create and have management and control over safety and health risks
It requires every person at the workplace to take “reasonably practicable” steps to ensure the safety and health of every workplace and worker.
The WSHA Impose heavier fines.
What is considered as reasonable practicable?
An action is considered to be practicable when it is capable of being done.
The severity of any injury or harm to health that may occur
The degree of risk (or likelihood) of that injury or harm occurring
How much is known about the hazard and the ways of eliminating, reducing or controlling it
The availability, suitability and cost of the safeguards
A state of being away from physical harm
(a)
A possibility that something unpleasant or undesirable might happen
(a)
Something which could be dangerous to you, your health or safety, or your plans or reputation
(a)
Something or someone that may harm a person, thing, organisation or system
(a)
Something that might be true or might happen
(a)
A mathematical measurement of how likely that an event will happen, expressed in a ratio
(a)
What are the 3 sub-task of risk assesment?
Risk determination
Risk evaluation
Risk measurement
Risk simulation
That risk that has been determined to exist using analytical tools.
(a)
That risk that has not yet been identified.
(a)
The sum of identified and unidentified risks.
(a)
The part of identified risk that is allowed to persist after controls are applied.
(a)
That portion of identified risk that cannot be tolerated, but must be either eliminated or controlled.
(a)
The portion of total risk that remains after management efforts have been employed. (a) comprises acceptable risk and unidentified risk.
What are examples of hidden risks?
Staff Morale and inadequate manpower
insufficient training leading to incompetence
Industrial culture not conducive to promoting safety
reporting culture and just culture
Succession planning
What is true about just culture?
An atmosphere of trust in which people are encouraged, and even rewarded, for providing essential safety-related issues
Supports learning from unsafe acts and helps to develop conscious articulation and sharing of safety information
Serves as an enabler, and even indicator of a good safety culture
No punishment for wilful violations and gross negligence
What are benefits defined?
Benefits are not limited to reduce mishap rates or to decrease injuries, but may also be realized as increases in efficiency or mission effectiveness.
Benefits are realized through prudent risk-taking. Risk management provides a reasoned and repeatable process that reduces the reliance on intuition.
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Which of the follow is true regarding acceptability of risk?
Risk management requires a clear understanding of what constitutes unnecessary risk, such as when benefits actually outweigh costs.
There are cases where risks were taken with no tangible benefits at all.
Accepting risk is a function of both risk assessment and risk management, and is often complex with many variables to consider, some of which has very high uncertainties.
There are cases where risks were taken with some tangible benefits.
Types of societal risk?
Real risk to an individual
Statistical risk
Predicted risk
Perceived risk
Simulated risk
Traveling by air presents (a) exposure of risk to death or injury.
Living near an airport or a nuclear plant represent (a) risk.
What are the 3 areas of safety risk component?
Hazard identification processes
Risk assessment and mitigation processes
Internal safety investigation
External safety investigation
Which are the following considerations for identification of a hazard to assess its potential for harm or damage?
Probability
Serverity
Exposure
Acceptability
What the various risk controls?
Elimination
Substitution
Engineering control
Administrative controls
PPE and Safe Work Procedure
