principles of reporting and recording accidents and incidents

The accident is an unplanned or uncontrolled event which has led to or could have led to injury to people, damage to plant, machinery or the environment

 or cause some other losses.

The accident and the incident is something that could happen in any engineering workplace or organization during the work. The worker is more amenability for the accident because they are more presence in the workplaces than the visitors and the employer. In order of that the reporting and recording accident and incident become too much important for the engineering organization to have the health and safety reporting system, especially when that reporting is underpin from the RIDDOR which puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences.

RIDDOR is the law that requires employers, and other people in charge of work premises, to report and keep records of: work-related accidents which cause deaths, work-related accidents which cause certain serious injuries, diagnosed cases of, certain industrial diseases; and certain dangerous occurrences.

The events above must be reported to the relevant enforcing authority, either the local authority's Environmental Health dept. or the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), without delay.

If any accident happen in any workplace that’s call to make a report for the (HSE) about that incident, so that in any engineering organization need a reporting system to limit the costs after this accident which are not only limited to the human damage but also on the workplace property. Only responsible persons including employers, the self-employed 
and people in control of work premises should submit 
reported under RIDDOR.

The information provided through recording and reporting enables the enforcing authorities either Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or local authority Environmental Health, to identify where and how risks arise, and to investigate serious accidents.

And in the end must Alia say that the HSE and local authority enforcement officers are not an emergency service it’s just who is responsible to for the accident and incident recording and reporting.

Controlling Hazards 2

A control measure is necessary in any workplace to prevent the hazards around the worker and the employer so we have to classification the hazards from the greater hazardous to the less hazardous and there is some work mistake is not accepted because it might cause a serious danger for the people in the workshop.

In an engineering workshop there are many possible hazards to take care for, so that the employer should be alert for any hazard could maybe happen.

It is a necessity that workers know the importance of cleaning the workplace. For example, drop some oil on the floor and leave it without cleaning can causes injure and harm for the people who passed from the oily area so that the employer should tell his employees about the necessary of cleaning the workplace floor.

In every engineering workshop there is the pillar drill and the pillar drill might be a hazard if we didn’t take health and safety into account. For example, the employer should make a Wide distance for the worker who working with the pillar drill and the yellow line could help in order to protect the employee from any push by mistake.

The fires is a normal hazard and it could be happen in everywhere specially in engineering workplace because they use flammable material, so that the employer should ensure that is the fire alarm and the fire exits are ready to use in any emergency moment.

When there is too much wires connecting to the machines that is calls to make a specific area to the wires extension because sometimes the worker or visitors can step on the wire if the wires are scattered.

When appointment of a new employee the employer should make for him/her a training program to teach him/her the important of taking into account the health and safety and learn him/her how to prevent the hazards during he/she doing his/her job.

The personal protect equipment is a something maybe the employee could ignore it so the employer should insure that all the employees are using the PPE correctly and they didn’t ignore this necessary to protect him/herself.

Controlling Hazards

A hazard is anything that may cause harm or injury. A control measure is any measure taken to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury or bodily harm when the workers doing them job and treating with equipment might cause harm for himself and for anybody around him. Control measures include actions that can be taken to reduce the potential of exposure to the hazard, or the control measure could be to remove the hazard or to reduce the likelihood of the risk of the exposure to that hazard being realized. A simple control measure would be the secure guarding of moving parts of machinery eliminating the potential for contact.

Electricity can kill or severely injure people and cause damage to property. All these accidents are reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). However, you can take simple precautions when working with or near electricity and electrical equipment to significantly reduce the risk of injures your workers and others around you.

Whenever possible consider the best way to control a hazard is to apply the control at the source of the hazard. The ultimate control is actual removal of the hazard from the workplace. Controls the hazards do not exactly remove the hazard, but provide information’s to alert the worker that a hazard exists.

Controls at the worker include personal protective equipment (PPE), training in safe work ways, administrative procedures and disciplinary actions. Controls at the worker may be subject to human mistake and should be considered the last alternative in a list of hazard controls, especially in the case of PPE For example, sometimes workers don’t wear their PPE correctly and that sometimes make the controlling hazards more difficult and hard to Implementation.

The basic element of any management program for PPE should be an in depth evaluation of the equipment needed to protect against the hazards at the workplace. The evaluation should be used to set a standard operating procedure for personnel, and then train employees on the protective limitations of the PPE, and on its proper use and maintenance.

Using PPE requires hazard awareness and training on the part of the user. Employees must be aware that the equipment does not eliminate the hazard. If the equipment fails, exposure will occur. To reduce the possibility of failure, equipment must be properly fitted and maintained in a clean and serviceable condition.

Administrative controls, administrative controls include adopting standard operating procedures or safe work practices or providing appropriate training, instruction or information to reduce the potential for harm and adverse health effects to persons. Isolation and permit to work procedures are examples of administrative controls.

Those using or working with electricity may not be the only ones at risk. Everyone around the worker who treating with the electricity is amenability to the burning dangerous because of Short circuit during the worker do his job. In order of that there are too many precincts to controlling these hazards for example, choose equipment that is suitable for its working environment, make sure that equipment is safe when supplied and that it is then maintained in a safe condition and make sure that equipment is safe when supplied and that it is then maintained in a safe condition.

All electrical equipment, including portable equipment and installations, should be maintained to prevent danger; this is a requirement of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989. These Regulations state principles of electrical safety and apply to all electrical systems and equipment.

There is an increased risk of this happening if the equipment isn't used correctly, isn't suitable for the job, or is used in a harsh environment.

More complicated tasks, such as equipment repairs or alterations to an electrical installation, should only be carried out by people with knowledge of the risks and the precautions needed.

You must not allow work on or near exposed, live parts of equipment unless it is absolutely unavoidable and suitable precautions have been taken to prevent injury, both to the workers and to anyone else who may be in the area.

Overhead power lines, over half of the fatal electrical accidents each year are caused by contact with overhead lines. When working near overhead lines, it may be possible to have them switched off if the owners are given enough notice. If this cannot be done, consult the owners about the safe working distance from the cables.

Risk Assessment

Prepare a detailed, weighted Risk assessment for drilling operations in an engineering workshop.

What are the hazards?	Who might be harmed and how?	What are you already doing?	Do you need to do anything else to manage risk?	Action by whom?
Somebody drop oil on the floor, and he didn’t clean it.	Anybody will pass from the oily floor he/she might slip and harm him/herself.	No action.	realization the employees about necessity of clean the floor if anything droop on it	Employer.
There wasn’t any yellow safety line had put around the workplace of the pillar drill.	The worker who using the pillar drill might anybody push him by mistake and he will injure himself.	No action.	Put a yellow safety line to insure that all the workers are safe.	Employees.
The fire alarm is not working.	If any fire started and the fire alarm didn’t responding everybody inside the workshop will be In a serious danger.	Nothing.	Make a contract with an alarm company to check your workshop alarms are Responding well.	Employer.
High air pressure in the pipe machines that use the Compressed air.	Maybe the air pipe exploded and harms everybody inside the workplace.	Nothing.	close the air Spout after finished from the machines which work on the -Compressed air	Employees.
Not putting the eye protect when using the welding tool.	The employee who use the welding tools without the eye protecting maybe he will lose his eyesight.	Nothing.	Make sure that all employees have a knowledge about the important of putting the personal protect equipment.	Employer.
Put the heavy equipment in high places.	It might fall down and harm anybody standing there.	Nothing.	Put all equipment in a specific place to insure no equipment is going to fall down.	Employer and employees.
The scattered wires.	The wires might break if anybody runs over the wire.	Nothing.	Bring a wire cover then, put all of it inside it and make for the wires a specific pass line.	Employees and employer.
The new staff.	He/she will be dangerous for everybody inside the workshop.	Nothing.	Make sure that is the new staff got enough training.	employer