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Industrial safety is primarily a
management activity which is concerned
with
 Reducing
 Controlling
 Eliminating hazards from the industries
or industrial units.
 To prevent accidents in the plant by reducing the hazard to minimum.

 To eliminate accident caused work stoppage and lost production.

 To achieve lower workmen’s compensation, insurance rates and reduce

all other direct and indirect costs of accidents.

 To prevent loss of life, permanent disability and the loss of income of

worker by eliminating causes of accidents.
 To evaluate employee’s morale by promoting safe work place and good
working condition

 To educate all members of the organization in continuous state of safety

mindless and to make supervision competent and intensely safety
minded.
Causes of Industrial Accidents
 1. Unsafe conditions
 a. The job itself
 b. Work schedules
 c. Psychological conditions
 d. Machinery & Equipment

 2. Unsafe Acts

 3. Miscellaneous Causes
Measures to ensure Industrial Safety
 1. Safety Policy
 2. Safety Committee
 3. Safety Engineering
 a. Guarding of machinery
 b. Material handling equipment
 c. Safety devices
 d. Ergonomics
 e. Plan maintenance
 f. General house keeping

 4. Safety Education & Training

 5. Role of Government
 Engineering: i.e. safety at the design, equipment installation
stage.

 Education: i.e. education of employees in safe practices.

 Enlistment: i.e. it concerns the attitude of the employees and

management towards the programmed and its purpose. This
necessary arose the interest of employees in accident
prevention and safety consciousness.

 Encouragement: i.e. to enforce adherence to safe rules and

practices.
 Safety audit –
A safety audit subjects each area of a company’s activity to a
systematic critical examination with the object of minimizing
loss.

 Safety survey-
A safety survey is a detailed examination in depth of a narrower
field of activity.

 Safety inspection-
 A routine scheduled inspection of a unit or department, which
may be
 carried out by someone ( may be a safety representative ) from
within the unit, possibly
 accompanied by the safety advisor. The inspection would check
maintenance standards,
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