Tips on workplace safety and worker health

1. What is Occupational Safety?
Security work can be understood as sets of actions that are taken to minimize workplace accidents, occupational diseases and protect the integrity and capacity of the worker.

Area of ??Study of Safety Engineering
Occupational Safety study various subjects such as Introduction to Safety, Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, Prevention and Control Risk in Machinery, Equipment and Facilities, Psychology in Safety Engineering, Communication and Training Administration imposed on Security Engineering, Environment and Diseases of Labor, Occupational Hygiene, Research Methodology, Legislation, Technical Standards, Civil and Criminal Responsibility, Skills, Environmental Protection, Ergonomics and Lighting, Fire and Explosion Protection and Risk Management.

Table of Work Safety of an enterprise consists of a multidisciplinary team consisting of Technical Work Safety Engineer, Occupational Safety, Occupational Physician and Nurse of Labor. These professionals make up what we call SESMT - Specialized Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine. Also the company's employees are the CIPA - Internal Commission for Accident Prevention, which aims at preventing accidents and illnesses resulting from work in order to make it compatible with the job permanently preserving life and promoting worker health.
Team Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine

Workplace Safety Laws
Occupational Safety is defined by rules and laws. In Brazil, the Work Safety Law is composed of Regulatory Standards, complementary laws, regulations and decrees as well as international conventions of the International Labour Organization, ratified by Brazil.

2. Why my company needs CONSTITUTE team of Occupational Safety?
Because it is required by law. Moreover, the Occupational Safety makes the company be organized, increasing productivity and product quality, improving human relations at work.

3. What is an occupational accident?
Accidents at work is that what happens in the course of work for a company, causing injury or functional disturbance may cause death, loss or reduction permanent or temporary capacity for work. In Brazil we call: Empregos em segurança do trabalho
The following are accidents at work:

1. the accident that happens when you're serving at the behest of company
outside the workplace
2. the accident that happens when you're traveling on company business
3. the accident occurs on the way between home and work or home from work.
4. occupational diseases (diseases caused by the type of work.
5. occupational disease (diseases caused by working conditions.

The accident at work is mainly due to two causes:

I. unsafe act
is the action taken by the man generally aware of what is doing, which is against safety standards. Examples of unsafe acts: roof climbing without safety belt drops, jacks connect electrical appliances with wet hands and driving at high speeds.
Unsafe Act
II. Unsafe condition
is the condition of working environment that presents a danger or hazard and the worker. Examples of unsafe conditions: wiring with bare wires, machines in a precarious state of maintenance, scaffold construction works made ??with scrap materials.
Insecure Environment

Eliminating unsafe conditions and unsafe acts can reduce accidents and occupational diseases. This is the role of Work Safety.

4. Where does the professional Occupational Safety?
Professional Work Safety has a very broad area of expertise. He is active in all spheres of society where there are workers. He usually works in food factories, construction sites, hospitals, commercial and industrial enterprises, large state enterprises, mining and extraction. It can also serve in the rural agro-industrial companies.

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