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HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

Presentation on:

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY,OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

AND SOCIAL SECURITY

By:Group 10

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INDUSTRIAL SAFETY

Industrial safety relates with the safety

measures due to the accidents occurring in an

industry.

Accident- unplanned and uncontrolled event

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CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS

Technical causes

Personnel causes

Psychological causes

Non- observance of safety rules

Miscellaneous causes

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PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS

Objectives :

1. Improve the image of the organization

2. Ensure compliance with legal requirements

3. Aid in maintaining or increasing productivity

4. Reduce loss of time and inconvenience

5. Increase the confidence of employees in their

management and remove the fear of injury

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PREVENTIVE MEASURES

Plant safety inspection

Job safety analysis

Accident investigation

The management system

Controlling environment causes

Controlling behavioristic causes

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STATUTORY SAFETY INSPECTION

Provisions:

1. Machines should be properly fenced

2. Young person are not to be employed ondangerous machines

3. Prohibition of employment of women andchildren near cotton openers

4. All flooring, steps, stairs, passages andgangways should be of sound construction and

where necessary, provided with hand rails5. Precautions in case of fire

6. Special care is to be taken for protection of eyes

7. No person is to be employed in any factory to lift,carry or move any load so heavy as likely to cause

him injury

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HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL STORAGE,

HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION

o Various safety measures in hazardous chemical

storage:

Mark all containers

Read the label before usingKeep chemicals in cool ad dry place

Avoid storage in the open sun

Prohibit eating, drinking and smoking in areas

where hazardous chemicals are presentStore cylinders upright with the caps and chain

them etc.

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SAFETY WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY

Under the Factories Act, 1948, the responsibility for

safety matters is placed squarely on the shoulders of the

occupier. Safety is thus the primarily the responsibility of

the management.

Safety audit

it is the methodical in depth examination of all or part of

total operating system with relevance to safety. Safety

audit as a technique has a key role in monitoring

implementation.

Safety officer

Factories Act provides for the appointment of a safety officerin every factory: (i) wherein 1,000 or more workers are

ordinarily employed; or (ii) wherein, in the opinion of the

state govt., any manufacturing process or operation is

carried on, which operation involves in any risk or healthhazard.

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INDUSTRIAL HEALTH

ILO/WHO Committee on Organizational Health:

Promotion and maintenance of physical, mental and social

well being of workers Prevention among workers of ill- health caused by the

working condition.

Protection of workers in their employment from risk

resulting from factors adverse to health

Placing and maintenance of the workers in an occupational

environment adapted to his physical, psychological

equipment

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STATUTORYHEALTH PROVISIONS

The factories act,1948 -health measures to be adopted

by the occupier of a factory:

Cleanliness S.11

Disposal of wastes and effluents S.12

Ventilation and temperature S. 13

Dust and fumes S.14

Artificial humidification S.15

Overcrowding S.16

Lighting S.17

Drinking water S.18

Latrines and urinals S.19

Spittoons S.20

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INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL OFFICER

Full time/ Part time.

Duties:

Examine recruitment and advise in selection. Immediate medical treatment and surgical emergencies

and periodical examinations.

Advice management regarding factory hygiene, the

occurrence of risk hazards etc.

To impart health education to the employees.

Medically supervise the canteens to ensure cleanliness

good quality food.

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INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE

The science of health and embraces all factors

which contribute to healthful living

y Proper ventilation

y Most careful air- conditioning and lighting.

y Spacious working environment.

y Cleanliness.

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PERSONNEL HYGIENE

Eating and Drinking

Smoking

Skin hygiene

Working Clothesy Launder working clothes

Changing Rooms

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OCCUPATONAL HAZARDS

PhysicalHazards:

Heat and Cold

Light

Noise and vibration UV rays

o Chemical Hazards

o Biological Hazards

o MechanicalHazardso Psychological hazards

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OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

Lead poisoning- pipe makers, painters

Phosphorous poisoning- yellow phosphorous, jaw

Mercury poisoning- laboratory manufacturers

Anthrax-animals

Silicosis-inhaling dust containing silica, potteries,

metal grindings,ceramics

Coal Miners Pneumoconiosis- coal mines

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INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE..

IndustrialHygiene department

y Thermal environment, which may cause heat

exhaustion

y High And Low Atmospheric Pressure- drivers, tunnel

workers.

y Mechanical vibration

y Noise pollution- auditory damage and nervous

y Inhalation of contaminated air

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Programme of protection provided by society

against the contingencies of modern life.

It is a dynamic concept, the contents of which

change with social, economic and political system

obtaining in a given country at a given time.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To protect the poor and vulnerable and to ensure

they have an acceptable standard of living.

All social security measures are three fold:

compensation, restoration and prevention. To prevent or relief from poverty.

To promote the whole quality of life.

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SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

The principal features of social assistance:

1. The whole cost of the programme is met by the

state and local units of the govt.

2. Benefits are paid as of legal right in prescribed

categories of need3. In assessing need, a persons other income and

resources are taken to account ;certain

resources, such as a reasonable level of personal

savings are disregarded4. The benefit grant is designed to bring a persons

total income up to a community .

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SOCIAL INSURANCE

Social insurance is financed by contributions

which are normally shares between employers

and workers, with perhaps, state participation.

Participation is compulsory Contributions are accumulated in special funds

Surplus funds are not needed to pay current

benefits are invested to earn further income

A persons right to benefit is secured by hiscontributions

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FINANCING AND SOCIAL SECURITY

SCHEMES

The cost of a social security scheme is the amount

needed to pay for the benefits and for the

expenses of administration. The basic problem of financing is how toraise the

necessary resources whether from taxation or

from contribution.

Short term and long term benefits are payable

under different social security problems.

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SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE NATIONAL

ECONOMY

Social security is regarded as a crucial element in

industrialization, economic development and

growth.

A social security benefits scheme is essentiallypersonal service to cover persons and their

dependants, and its success is measured

primarily in those terms.

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