Hazard identification and assessment

Do not discourage employees from making reports and recommendations about fatalities, injuries, illnesses, incidents, or hazards in the woikplace, or from otherwise participating in the workplace safety and health program. 

The employer must systematically identify and assess hazards to which employees are exposed and assess compliance with the General Duty Clause and OSHA standards. The employer must conduct inspections of the woikplace review safety and health information evaluate new equipment, materials, and processes for hazards before they are introduced into the workplace and assess the severity of identified hazards and rank those hazards that cannot be corrected immediately according to their severity. 

Identification of hazards includes those items that can assist you in identifying workplace hazards and determining what corrective action is necessary to control them. Actions include worksite safety inspections, accident investigations, meetings of safety and health committees, and project safety meetings. To accomplish the identification of hazards, the following should be reviewed  

The employer must carry out an initial assessment and then reassess as often thereafter as necessary to ensure compliance. Reassessment should be done at least every two years. When safety and health information or a change in workplace conditions indicates that a new or increased hazard may be present, the employer should also conduct a reassessment. The employer should investigate each work-related death, serious injury or illness, or incident (near-miss) having the potential to cause death or serious physical harm. The employer should keep records of the hazards identified, their assessment, and the actions the employer has taken, or plans to take. 

Worksite analysis involves a variety of worksite examinations to identify not only existing hazards, but also conditions and operations where changes might occur and create hazards. Being unaware of a hazard, which stems from failure to examine the worksite, is a sure sign that safety and health policies or practices are inadequate. Effective management actively analyzes the work and worksite to anticipate and prevent harmful occurrences. Worksite analysis is intended to ensure that all hazards are identified. This can be accomplished by 

Worksite analysis involves a variety of worksite examinations to iderrtify not only existing hazards, but also conditions and operations where changes might occur and create hazards. Being unaware of a hazard, which stems from failure to 

It is important to remember that under an effective management system employers do not discourage employees from reporting safety hazards and making recommendations about incidents or hazards, or from participating in the safety program. 

This is a good method of defining what training is required. Hazards that employees are exposed to should systematically be identified and evaluated. This evaluation can be accomplished by assessing compliance with the following activities and reviewing safety information,for example  

Workers compensation claims (Employer s First Report of Injury) 

Information from prior workplace safety inspections 

Results of employee safety perception surveys Safety manuals 

---

Examples of product class carcinogenicity hazard identifications and assessments and ultimate risk communications for biopharmaceuticals approved in the United States for chronic use or based on potential cause for concern are provided in Table 19.4a (products without carcinogenicity assessment) and Table 19.4b (products with carcinogenicity assessment). The data are derived from publicly available regulatory assessments and product labels. Specific examples are discussed below. 

Thirty-four states and many nations around the world already require or encourage employers to implement such programs. The key elements common to all of these programs are management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, education and training, and program evaluation and improvement. 

The Safety Management Program covers a broad spectnim of issues fiom hazard identification and assessment to hazard control during deagn and operations to enhance worker and public safety. 

Providing ways for employees to become involved in hazard identification and assessment, prioritizing hazards, safety training, and management system evaluation... 

It is also important to evaluate other OSHA requirements that may impose additional and specific requirements for hazard identification and assessment. The hazard identification and assessment analysis should be... 

Hazard identification and assessment analysis should be conducted ... 

Management leadership Employee involvement Risk and hazard identification and assessment Hazard prevention and control Education and training Performance and measurement... 

Hazard identification and assessment Hazard identification and assessment Worksite analysis Hazard assessment and control Workplace analysis Hazeird identification and assessment... 

The primary elements which should be addressed within this program are management leadership and employee participation hazard identification and assessment ... 

Note Any hazard identified by the employer s hazard identification and assessment process that is covered by an OSHA standard or the General Duty Clause must be controlled as required by that standard or that clause, as appropriate. 

Control and verification is accomplished through hazard identification and assessment, SHE performance monitoring and auditing. Here Ymer applies some of the tools described in Parts III - V of this book. 

---