How To Assess Physicochemical Risks
The assessment of physicochemical risks in the workplace is different in many respects from that needed when assessing health risks. Whereas health risks arise from the interaction of people...
Things To Consider In Assessing Health Risks Of Chemicals
Assessing Health Risks Of Chemicals
The assessment of health risks from hazardous chemicals involves gaining an understanding of the situations where people can be exposed to, or come into contact...
Safety Data Sheets For Chemical Safety
Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
The manufacturer or importer must prepare a safety data sheet for the hazardous chemical before first manufacturing or import the hazardous chemical or as soon as...
How To Identify Which Chemicals Are Hazardous?
The first step in managing risks involves identifying all the chemicals that are used, handled, stored or generated at your workplace in consultation with workers. The identity of chemicals...
What Are Hazardous Chemicals?
Hazardous Chemicals
Under the WHS Regulations, a hazardous chemical is any substance, mixture or article that satisfies the criteria of one or more Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling...
Chemical Safety Program
CHEMICAL SAFETY
PURPOSE
The purpose of UFV’s Chemical Safety Program is to provide a framework to establish a written program that can be used by all laboratory workers to carry out...
What Are the Consequences of Not Reporting Work Hazards?
Little problems often become big problems if no one takes the initiative to correct them. If your employees don’t bother to report a malfunctioning machine or a slip-and-fall hazard,...
The Top 9 Reasons Workers Don’t Report Near Misses
Here are the top nine reasons, workers often don't report near misses:
1. Fear
Believe it or not, fear actually may be the least common reason workers avoid reporting near misses....
Why Workers Fail To Report Hazards & Injuries
Workers have a right to a safe workplace and should speak up about unsafe conditions.
That is the message from OSHA and many workplace safety programs. Yet workers sometimes see...
3 Reasons Workplace Hazards Go Unreported
In this article we look at 3 common reasons why workplace hazards go unreported:
1. Culture: Group Thinking
When humans are put into groups we are less likely to take action or...
