Safety in the Workplace and at Home

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Safety is everyone's responbility, either at home, work or play.

 

The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) and the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (WHS Regulation) are laid out to define and manage risks to health and safety so far as is reasonably practicable. These guiding principles can be applied not only in the workplace but also at home to ensure you and your family are kept safe and free from personal harm through avoidable incidents. 

 

The risk management approach involves identification and assessment of risks followed by putting into place control measures. These control measure should ideally be in the form of hard stops such as safeguarding against harm or injury by physical controls such as guards, emergency stops etc. Where these are not practicable soft measure through process control can be used but should only be used in cases where all other means have been exhausted.

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There are many definitions for hazard but the most common definition when talking about workplace health and safety is

 

“A hazard is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone.”

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The CSA Z1002 Standard "Occupational health and safety - Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control" uses the following terms:

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• Harm – physical injury or damage to health

• Hazard – a potential source of harm to a worker.

 

Basically, a hazard is the potential for harm or an adverse effect (for example, to people as health effects, to organizations as property or equipment losses, or to the environment).

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We can undertake the risk assessment on yuor CAD design, or product and validate the risks through FEA or CFD.