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    Safety at Workplace: Safety Start With You

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    Safety at workplace documents provide guidelines for maintaining safety in different environments. Common tips include keeping walkways clear of tripping hazards, wearing proper protective equipment, being aware of emergency procedures, and reporting any unsafe conditions. Specific rules are outlined for offices, workshops, and other areas to prevent slips, falls, improper machine operation, and other accidents through safe behaviors and hazard awareness. Standard safety sign shapes, colors and symbols help communicate important warnings and instructions to minimize risks at work.

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    Safety at Workplace: Safety Start With You

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    Safety at workplace documents provide guidelines for maintaining safety in different environments. Common tips include keeping walkways clear of tripping hazards, wearing proper protective equipment, being aware of emergency procedures, and reporting any unsafe conditions. Specific rules are outlined for offices, workshops, and other areas to prevent slips, falls, improper machine operation, and other accidents through safe behaviors and hazard awareness. Standard safety sign shapes, colors and symbols help communicate important warnings and instructions to minimize risks at work.

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    Safety at workplace documents provide guidelines for maintaining safety in different environments. Common tips include keeping walkways clear of tripping hazards, wearing proper protective equipment, being aware of emergency procedures, and reporting any unsafe conditions. Specific rules are outlined for offices, workshops, and other areas to prevent slips, falls, improper machine operation, and other accidents through safe behaviors and hazard awareness. Standard safety sign shapes, colors and symbols help communicate important warnings and instructions to minimize risks at work.

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    Safety at Workplace: Safety Start With You

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    Safety at workplace documents provide guidelines for maintaining safety in different environments. Common tips include keeping walkways clear of tripping hazards, wearing proper protective equipment, being aware of emergency procedures, and reporting any unsafe conditions. Specific rules are outlined for offices, workshops, and other areas to prevent slips, falls, improper machine operation, and other accidents through safe behaviors and hazard awareness. Standard safety sign shapes, colors and symbols help communicate important warnings and instructions to minimize risks at work.

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    Safety at workplace

    Safety start with you


    "Remember: Safety is not an accident."

    Safety at workplace

    WORKPLACE SAFETY TIPS


    Common Safety
    Action or behaviour Definitions
    that you or a co-worker
    carries out that may be potentially harmful

    Unsafe
    acts

    Unsafe
    Anything you or a co-worker workplace
    finds that is potentially harmful SAFE WORKPLACE
    Control and elimination of
    Unsafe recognizable hazards to
    minimize the risk
    conditions
    Common Safety Definitions
    Example

    • You work at nursery and you purposely or un-purposely


    leave a bottle of toxic cleaning solution out where children
    can find it then you have just committed an unsafe act.

    • You happen to come upon a large slippery pool of water on


    the floor then you have just found an unsafe condition.
    Common Safety Issues
    • Slips, trips, and falls:
    – Falls are the number one leading cause of injury in
    the workplace. A major cause of falls in the
    workplace is the use of improper lifting
    techniques.
    Common Safety Issues
    • Slips, trips, and falls:
    – Proper Lifting Tips
    • Assess the situation and plan the lift.
    • Make sure you have nonskid shoes and firm footing.
    • Bend your knees, tighten your stomach, and keep your
    back straight.
    • Make sure you have a good grip on the item or person
    you're lifting.
    • Lift smoothly. A smooth lift means that you avoid
    twisting your body, point your feet in the direction you
    want to go, and push if possible rather than pull.
    Common Safety Issues
    • Fire safety:
    – The best safety advice related to fire safety is to
    stay calm. You can't help yourself or a co-worker if
    you lose control during an emergency.

    – Move to designated Assembly point.

    – Use a fire extinguisher.


    Common Safety Issues
    • When a potential hazard is discovered…
    Notify your supervisor.
    Make sure that everyone Unless you are the
    else in your workplace is supervisor; then get going
    aware of the problem. on that safety committee
    plan.

    Follow up.
    Telling someone there's a File any reports or
    problem is not a guarantee documents about the
    that the problem will be problem.
    resolved satisfactorily.
    Safety at workplace

    SAFETY IN THE OFFICE


    Safety In The Office

    Don’t carry
    Keep the walkway Look before you Don’t read while anything higher
    clear. sit. walking. than your eye
    level.

    Refrain from Use the elevator


    Use the stairway
    Do not run, relax. putting anything whenever
    handrails.
    atop cabinets. necessary.

    Don’t eat at your


    Watch where you workstation and in
    step. front of your
    computer.
    Safety at workplace

    WORKSHOP SAFETY RULES


    Workshop Safety Rules

    Know where the


    Always listen emergency stop Wear good strong
    Do not run in the
    carefully and follow buttons are shoes. training shoes
    workshop.
    instructions. positioned in the are not suitable.
    workshop.

    When learning how


    Bags should not be Do not use a
    to use a Always be
    brought into a machine if you have
    machine, listen very patient, never rush in
    workshop as people not been shown how
    carefully to all the the workshop.
    can trip over them. to operate it safely .
    instructions .

    Report any damage


    Keep hands away Use hand tools
    Always use a guard of
    from carefully, keeping
    when working on a machines/equipment
    moving/rotating both hands behind
    machine. as this could cause
    machinery. the cutting edge.
    an accident.
    Safety at workplace

    BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE SYSTEM


    OF SAFETY SIGNS
    Yellow: Continue to cross only if unable to stop safely.

    Green: Cross

    Flashing Green:
    Red: Do not cross indicate the end of
    a green cycle
    before the light
    changes to a
    yellow

    Traffic Light
    are signalling devices positioned at road
    intersections, pedestrian crossings and
    other locations to control competing flows
    of traffic.
    Combinations of Shapes and Colours
    and their Meanings for Signs
    Geometrical Form and Meaning of
    Safety Signs
    Yellow/Black Danger Identification

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