Integrating risk assessment in an organization is a process that generally follows a sequence of phases. To be effective, the company culture must be willing to embrace the risk assessment process, and cultural acceptance stems from management leadership. Emphasizing some of the major benchmarks in occupational risk assessment approaches, the paper summarizes and outlines several basic principl...

Reducing the number of roof fall injuries is a goal of the NIOSH mine safety research program. Central to this effort is the development of assessment techniques to help identify the nature of the risks associated with working under potentially hazardous roof conditions. This paper discusses a method to determine the roof fall risk using a qualitative risk-analysis technique. The ability to det...

Mild steel roofing is increasingly being used in simple construction processes. Prima Land Company dominates the lightweight roof market share Pandeglang. However, accidents can come its manufacturing process, and potential hazards have yet to be fully measured. Therefore, this study aims identify, assess, provide risk control prevent reduce work at Company. The methods are Hazard Identificatio...

In developing countries land-filling is the most common form of waste management that is practiced. Landfills are known to be anthropogenic sources of air pollutants that have a negative impact on both environmental and human health. People who work on landfill sites are particularly at risk of adverse health effects associated with the inhalation of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), such as vol...

An attempt to achieve an agreed set of priorities for research in occupational medicine was undertaken by the Delphi technique. Fifty three senior practitioners of occupational medicine in academe (25) and industry or government (28) were canvassed about their views and choices for priority activity. Forty six (86%) responded to the initial enquiry and 48 (91%) provided rank order choices from ...

Abstract Project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks. This imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of OHS within project teams. Difficulties on OHS regularly came about in the construction i...

The first challenge in developing an effective health promotion program for employees is the performance of a health needs assessment on the target population. In an effort to meet this challenge, 600 corporate employees were surveyed and compared with respect to the allotment of time to work, leisure, and self/family care activities; health risk factors; perceived health; and activity satisfac...

drilling operations are exposed to a variety of hazards, some of which may be location and activity dependent and each could pose different risk from different paths.  drilling operation may be vulnerable to hurricanes in one region and be exposed to geohazards in another. however, there are other hazards, (e.g. corrosion, age degradation, poor maintenance), which equally affects every rig. ide...