Top Tips on Occupational Hazards and Safety Issues

Advanced world has engaged people in different occupations, while the increasing occupational hazards harm the working people’s health, and at times claim their lives. We rarely notice victims of occupational hazards dragging their miserable existence. Thus, it is important to address the problem for its intensity and preventive measures should be admitted about the health hazard issues at workplace.


Effective measures taken against the risks of workplace help improve production to a great extent. Everyday employees around the world, face different sorts of occupational hazards ranging several scales and cause immense damage to the employees’ health and lives, and who doesn’t know the importance of a skilled hand. With the spread of economic maturity, we are engaged in different activities both in formal and informal sectors. Accidental events in the workplaces can easily be reduced if we abide by some standard rules and regulations made for occupational hazards and safety.

Here are a few exclusive notes to prevent occupational hazards and safeguard the employees at the workplace.

Identify the Risk

As the first step, better check the hazards at your respective workplaces. In this process you have to track the potential hazards among your machinery or equipments and evaluate the rank of the risk. Make hazard eliminating decisions and you must follow up the conditions whether it is working or not.

Cut Back Noise

Noise is one of the most prospective health hazardous elements. In most of the factories, working populations are exposed to a high level of sound emerging from the heavy machineries. Blaring sounds from machines lead to hearing loss in most cases. Thus most of the factory workers are unable to hear properly or turns deaf since they are accustomed with the exceeding sounds. A decent or tolerable sound level should be maintained at the workplaces. Noise reducing elements like silencer or insulations may prove appropriate for the honking machines.

Environmental Stress

Environment plays an important role over the safety of the workers. Extreme heat or temperature drop may be health hazardous for the workers or employees and can cause sudden emergencies. Heat stroke helps to raise disorders in the body. It can cause sudden awful pain in the whole body. In contrast workers can be affected with frostbite or chilblains if they continue work in an extreme cold place for a long time. All these stresses ultimately result in a series of disorders and may cause amputations of limb making you incompatible for any sort of work or even death, if there is no emergency medical aid. However, the stress of heat and cold may vary over the working regions. Therefore, the employer should approve necessary heating or cooling system following the environment.

Downfall Prevention

On the course of our diversified occupational activities, often we work on levels higher than our regular working space on the ground. There is a huge possibility to fall from the level for slippery/ unstable surface provided that there is no protective measure to keep you safe there. We may fall on the ground while our simple activities like walking, running or ladder climbing, at times it turns into a complex situation including loosing limbs, financial burden or death. Many unfortunate workers die every year around the world due to descending from the same or lower level ground. And the similar episode repeats more in the construction sector. It is imperative to be alert while working and the employers should adopt relevant actions to keep the employees safe and sound, or he is to handle a health lawsuit. Simply a guard or railing at a higher level might be the probable solution.

Machine Safety

A machine is considered the heart of an industry. We get different products for our daily use made by some sort of machine. Some of the machines are very hazardous for the workers dealing with. The machines having sharp edge, moveable parts contain the risk of several injuries like limb crushing. So machine safety plays the most important role to save the workers from the workplace hazards. Proper safeguards for machines placed open for work might be the solution to avoid health hazards.

Working Hours

Working hours also possess the potentiality to health and safety hazards. Continuous work round the clock may bring fatigues among the working population. If they are not offered a break, there is a great chance of occupational hazards. An exact working schedule should be set and implemented in all the factories and offices to get the better productivity. A mutual understanding among the employer, employees and the trade unions is required to figure out the working schedule.

Asbestos Reduction

Most of the commercial products like cement, textile, insulation and fireproofing materials are closely associated with ‘Asbestos’. It is a kind of mineral having high flexibility, and can battle against thermal, chemical or electrical elements. Undoubtedly it is an important element for our developed industry sector, but the people exposed to asbestos can be rewarded with life threatening diseases such as lung cancer. Therefore, preventive measures must be adopted against the random use of asbestos.  And the employees should be given personal protective equipments to guard themselves from the impacts of Asbestos.

Metal and Chemical Reduction

Toxic (whether it is solid, liquid or gas) metals and chemicals like-Lead, Chlorine, Nitric acid, Sulfuric acid are widely in use in the industries. They also contain the potential risk for the people engaged in construction, metal products, paints, ceramics, batteries, ammunition manufacturing and mining if the working people are seriously exposed to it. The workers need to be aware about the negative impacts of such toxic chemicals and metals. They can cause several damage including lung damage if inhaled, or fatal skin diseases if contacted directly with skin, or may cause blindness if any of the crushed metal enters into the eyes.

Occupational Insurance

Occupational insurances help the victims to survive during the period of their inability caused by the misfortune at their working place. There are some organisations provide occupational hazard insurance based on social insurance policy. Most of them provide medical benefits, injury or illness benefits, missing person allowance, cash subsidies over disability or death. But at times the owners or the insurance agents are reluctant to support the victim, and a dispute develops between the victim and the underwriter. Insurance law firms or insurance law specialists play key roles to settle such disagreements.

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