INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ASSIGNMENTS

COMMUNICATION RULES ON SAFETY



Communication rules on safety centres on ways of preventing the could be accidents by way of communicating to every employee or individual(s) concerned or affected. There is always a way of passing the information to the affected individual. This topic tries to highlight some of the ways that information can be dessiminated to individual and departments concerned. This information is passed on from the health and safety department to other departments. Below is the procedure as how information is passed to the intended people or employees:





a) Enviromental Health and Safety Department



The Enviromental Health and Safety Department does the following things:

• The enviromental health and safety department assists other departments in implementing and maintaining their separate hazard communication program. This ensures that all departments in an organization know their hazard communication programs and incase of an hazard, they know what they are supposed to do.


• Again the Enviromental Health and Safety Department ensures that general training sessions are undertaken to foster the more specific programs provided by other departments.


• Maintains and keeps safety information on any chemicals received in the organization.

b) All Department Heads

The department heads do the following duties:

• Direct the hazard communication program adopted by their departments.


• Make sure that all employees are informed of the hazards in the work place.


• Ensures that all the prescribed safety procedures are followed.

C) Employees

All employees should do the following:

• All employees should perform their duties according to the hazard communication program of the department.


• Make use of the established safe work practices and finally


• Make use of personal protective equipment as instructed

d) Hazard Determination

The employer must identify and maintain a list of all hazardous chemicals used in the work place. This will help in maintaining and observing safety rules for employee in an organization.

e) Chemical labeling

All chemical in the work place must be labelled.This includes the name of the chemical and any hazards the chemical may present. By doing this, the persons handling these chemicals will be aware of the danger of the chemicals and therefore handle them with a lot of care.

REFERENCE:

http:/chemlabs.uoregon.edu/safety/HazCom.html