Basic 4 – LO 4.2 Evaluate Hazards and Risks

Employees should not be provided with the proper disposal information about the weight of each load and its downside.

Room doors should not be close and lock automatically.

Organizations with five or more employees must have a policy statement on health and safety, implement the policy, update it when necessary, and avoid risks from other activities.

When working in a confined space, employees must have safe systems of work.

Manual handling means bringing a load by hand and physical strength, such as lifting, putting down, pushing, etc.

Every occupation will have a positive as well as negative effect in people.

Different survival needs in people in corporate make them to be the worst or the best.

Every employee is susceptible to such occupation-related problems.

The problems are more pronounced in people who spent long years in an organization.

Only employees in the factory are susceptible to hazards in the workplace.

The ergonomist works in teams which may involve a variety of other professions: design engineers, production engineers, industrial designers, computer specialists, industrial physicians, health and safety practitioners, and specialists in human resources.

Human-centred design is an essential humanizing influence on contemporary rapid developments in technology, in contexts ranging from the domestic to all types of industry.

The ergonomist advises on the design of interfaces between people and computers, information displays for industrial processes, training materials, and the design of human tasks and jobs.

Ergonomics deals with the interaction of technological and work situations with the human being.

Ergonomics comes into everything which involves people. Work systems, sports and leisure, health and safety should all embody ergonomics principles if well designed.

The goal of the ECC regulations program is to ensure fair job practices between employers and employees.

One of the reasons for implementing the Employees Compensation Program (ECP) is the EC appealed claims disposition.

Work Contingency Prevention is not necessary if we have to spare the workers and their families from the problems and pain that come along with any work-connected sickness, injury or death.

The WCP program is designed to help ease the problem of increasing number of workers who either become disabled or died due to occupational injuries or diseases.

The rehabilitation of the occupationally disabled workers gives new hope and brings life to our ODWs. Its primary objective is to bring back the ODWs into the economic mainstream as productive members of society through rehabilitative services.