Safety

01. Rules and Instructions in the Laboratory  General safety • Do not eat, drink, and smoke inside a laboratory.(1) • Handling contact lenses are prohibited in areas where specimens are handled.(1) • Long hairs, ties, scarves should be secured.(1) • Frequent hand washing is an important safety precaution.(1) • Keep work areas clean and tidy all times.(2) • Clean and wipe all of the work surfaces end of a experiment.(2)  Clothing • Lab coats should be worn in the laboratory to protect you and…

Top-Notch Workplace Safety Program I. Introduction The Truss organization really is in trouble. The Truss organization has had a number of workplace accidents. In addition, employees have reported workplace safety issues to management, OSHA, and the local newspapers. With its reputation and profits at stake, it is imperative that Truss identify and resolve the root cause. In my view, the core problem is that the Truss organization does not have an effective workplace safety and health…

Five Considerations for Rail Safety Rail freight is critical to American industry and commerce. Nearly everything we use to keep our nation afloat has at least a portion of its components moved by rail. Trains move everything from fertilizer for our food to crude oil, natural gas, coal, ethanol, grains, and many different kinds of ore to heavy machinery, components for wind turbines, and even waste materials. With so many important components of our lives dependent on the rail system, it is…

effective in reducing school transportation-related fatalities. The NHTSA states that “From 2005 to 2014 there were 331,730 fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Of those crashes, 1,191 (0.4%) were classified as school-transportation-related” (Traffic Safety Facts 1). This shows that compartmentalization is becoming effective in creating a safe transportation environment for school-related vehicles. Despite these uplifting facts, however, accidents are often deadly when they happen. Those…

Pharmaceutical industry involves a lot of hazardous substances and chemicals, that are highly dangerous on the people’s health who are likely to be in contact with these substances during their work. So in 1974 ‘The Health and Safety Law’ was made to protect the people against risks at work and created a protective environment, as it looks after the customer and staff members from any dangers might occur. Although in 2002 the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations law (C.O.S.H.H)…

effluent that can be either discharged to the environment or reused. However, wastewater treatment plant posed safety and health hazards to the wastewater treatment worker. Work in the wastewater treatment sector was considered hazardous. Workers many experience health problem and deaths. The roles of wastewater treatment plant worker are day-to-day operate and maintain…

accidents are preventable and therefore “one accident is one too many”. In order to prevent accidents, they establish local safety and health organizations that provide specialist advice to managers and employees. To be at the forefront of accident prevention in the industry, Nestle implement in all sites the mandatory Nestlé Occupational Safety and Health Management System,…

Health and Safety Act when they stored cardboard file boxes by stairwells and emergency exits. The Occupational Health and Safety Act outlines the basic responsibilities of the employer. The basic responsibilities include; providing employees with policies and producers in order to sustain a safe work environment. “Without limiting the strict duty imposed by subsection (1), an employer shall, (a) provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the…

What Is CPSIA? Answer: The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) was passed by U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Bush on Aug. 14, 2008. CPSIA is designed to allow The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to better regulate the safety of products made and imported for sale in the U.S. CPSIA also contains regulations that are intended to make products for children under age 12 safer by requiring manufacturers and importers to show that these products do…

Have on Patient Safety With over 100 million people admitted to a hospital in the US, it is no surprise that patient safety is one of the top priorities, one of these priorities is proper medication administration. Picone, Titler, Dochterman (2008) found that 96% of all medication are preventable an alarming realization considering how common they occur. An analysis of medication errors reported by health care professionals shows how common errors are, how they affect patient safety, what steps…