Health, safety, and job secu
rity is the protection efforts of labor to keep it healthy and safe while working in the workplace. The workplace is closed or open spaces, moving or still, or often entered labor for business purposes and where the presence of the sources of danger.
Health within the scope of the health, safety, and job security is not only defined as a state free from disease. According to the Basic Law No. RI Health. 9 In 1960, Chapter I Article 2, good health condition is defined as the perfection of physical, spiritual, and social.
health which aims to attain a degree of community health workers as high, whether physical, spiritual, and social, with prevention and treatment of diseases or health problems caused by work and working environment as well as common illnesses.
Workplace safety can be defined as a state protected from danger while doing the job. In other words, work safety is one factor brothers to do during the work. No one in this world who want to cause accidents. Work safety depends. On the type, shape, and the environment in which the work was carried out.
Accidents can be grouped into accidents caused by:
1. Machine
2. Transport
3. Other work equipment
4. Chemicals
5. Work environment
6. Other causes
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010Protection Devices for Legs and Feet
Monday, December 7th, 2009
The vast majority of damage to the feet due to falling heavy objects. It’s easy to get safety shoes to protect against this kind of risk. That kind of shoes can be purchased in sizes, shapes and styles, which in turn match well with different feet, and also look good.
There are various kinds of safety shoes, among them are:
- With a protective toecap: are used to protect fingers from the fall of heavy weights and avoid any injury to them. The tips are normally produced from steel.
- Drivers: are designed to dissipate the power, to prevent static sparking. Sauce are used in hospitals and operations in certain tasks of industries where explosive or highly flammable substances are handled.
- Not producing spark excluding any material are made of ferrous metal in its structure, and if it contains a protective metal tip, this is covered in plates of nonferrous materials.
- No drivers: the manufacture of materials with absence of any metal, except at the tip protector that is well insulated. Used to work in areas where there are some electrical hazards.
- Cast: it is designed with a booty rubber bands on its sides to prevent the entrance of sparks or molten metal sprayed.
- Waterproof: those made from plastic handle so it’s waterproof to prevent contact of chemicals or contaminated sewage.
- Special shoes: there are special shoes depending on the industry and the dangers they entail, such as in the construction pro should be used soled shoes or insoles reinforced flexible metal to prevent that nails it crosses. In damp places and in dairy factories and breweries, are effective in the wooden-soled shoes to protect feet while walking on hot surfaces.
- Plastic shoe covers: are used to prevent contamination of a product as they form a physical barrier between the worker’s shoe and floor clean work area. You can find disposable, made of paper and plastic which are disinfected within a period of time.