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OTHM LEVEL 3 TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE IN

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Unit #1.3

BY SAQIB JAVED
Unit #1.3( Understand the advantage of
a safety management system).
3.1(Explain the costs & impact of
accident & ill health at the workplace).
In the organization accidents & ill health has
direct cost & indirect costs. These costs
suddenly impact on a employers ,
employees financially as well as physical loss.

1) Direct cost:
•After accident company received direct
Collateral destruction, damages to the
property.
•Employees receiving injuries, medical
treatment, hospital bills.
•Claiming insurance policy if they have.
•Compensation offering by the company to
the workers if someone receive major
injuries, or any disability.
•Legal expense facing by the courts,
penalties, fines, .
•Purchasing new equipments machinery.

2) Indirect cost:
•Losing product, company, reputation with
the passage of time.
•After worker , leaving or receiving death,
the new induction of training to new
worker costs high.
•Reputation of a company the trust of
customer on company no longer.
•Decreasing the productivity production.
•losing morals & feeling uncomfortable at
the workplace.
•In the company workers receiving fear,
stress, trauma, tension due to accidents, .
•Spending money on repairing machines,
damages & maintenance.

➢ Impacts of accident, ill health

1) On Workers:
•They suffered physical injuries, health
issues, deaths, disability, mental issues,
stress, tension, .
•Facing financial issues, families burden &
social impact on them.

2) Impact on working time.

•While doing work if any accident occurs
all work stop .
•Aims & objective may be not achieve,
production delivery late.
•Workers may be not doing overtime.

3) Financial impact:
•Property damage, & fines penalties, by
the legal court notices,.
•compensation giving to the worker
families.

4) Permanent impact:
•The accident can causes permanent
impact such as disability, or any late impact
disease, such as asthma, cancer, or coma.
•Fearness from incident truama sleeping
issues.

3.2(Explain the elements of safety

management system).

In HSE there is PDCA cycle which provides

a better way for managing business, . It
helps in the aim & objective achieving
providing structure for planning.

1) Plan:
•It is a first step where you has to think
what to do , setting targets, aim &
objective.
•Making complete plan structure &
carrying out risk assessment at the work
Which hazards, safety measures will be
needed.

2) Do:
•In this step you has to implement your
plans into action including all the structure in
real format.
•Giving training completing tasks managing
workers health & safety, policies.

3) Check:
•While doing operations performing check
& balance is necessary either its working
good or not.
•Checking health & safety measures at the
workplace.
 •Visiting the sites physical inspection,
checking risks, hazards, records, every
department management system,
machinery.

4) Act:
•In the last step checking all the system
where improvements needed, asking
reviews, making safety policy much stronger.
•Taking of results progress of the plans.

❖ These four were the main elements of

PDCA cycle in this its Continuous in cycle.
Its provides guidelines instructions, for the
visitors, workers, employers, contractor.
In health safety management system
HSMS has some key elements.
1) Risk assessment:
•At the workplace identifying hazards &
carryout their risk assessment report
finding their risk levels.
•Controlling the risk levels & from higher to
lower level.

2) Policy:
•Making & implementing a clear policy in
organization regarding to the health &
safety.
•Ensuring all the instruction should be
understood by the employees.
•Providing safe provision of work.

3) Communication:
•In the organization employers
responsibilities to ensure all the employees
understand instructions easily.
•Displaying notices in different languages
on the board.
•Implementing health & safety training in
a effective way.

4) Keeping record:
•Maintaining all the documents records of
health & safety policies, risk assessment,
investigation, incident, accident, audits all
the necessary records keeping is
responsibility of employees & employers.

5) Reporting :
•Making a proper system in which anyone
Can report incident, accident without any
hesitation.
•After reporting investigate it & make a
report who is responsible & trying to avoid
in future re occurrence.

6) Stakeholders:
•Communicating with the others share
holders or any of external partners for
business & making deals or for improving
health & safety policy.

7) Occupational health:
•In organization the safety officer,
supervisor their responsibility to guide the
worker about the hazards, risk & what to
do in emergency situations, giving
Instructions about health & safety.

8) Physical inspection:
•The leadership duty is to keeping eyes on
employees work.
•Monitoring them if they needed
Guidance or how to operate machines.
•Developing TBT tool box talk with them
Making comfortable conversation with
them.

9) Review system:
•Taking reviews from the workers which
helps the company in further improvement
if needed.
•Conducting meetings, providing them
Forms , channels, system by which they can
feedback & review.

10) Audits:
•Keeping records & checking complete
audits trying to finding progress & failure if
further needed to update policy .
•In audit financial account are check any
sort of corruption or investigate the
responsible for loss.

3.3(Analyses the benefits of using a safety

management system) .
The SMS has many befits in the
organization making comfortable
environment, improving the workplace,
reducing the accidents development of
Skills , standards , decreasing in financial
loss by safety management.
1) Workplace safety:
•Implementing safe work provision making
comfortable environment at the
workplace.
•Making control on safety guiding them
reducing accidents, incident at the
workplace.

2) Decreasing Risks :
•In the organization the safety protocol
helps to minimize the risks level.
•Its helps you to identify hazards, &
reducing the chance of risk.
3) Insurance premiums:
•In company if zero accidents will be there
safety management is there then no
claiming of insurance which helps to
reduces the insurance.

4) Emergency preparedness:
•For handling any emergency situations
employers duty is to arrange some practice
drills which help’s them to be prepared for
any emergency.

5) Reputation:
•If the company full filling the desired
requirements of the customer on time or
on commitment, & developing trust of
them enhancing their reputation.
•Making positive impact on community
ensuring all the health & safety measures.

6) Continuous improvement:
•Improving in productivity making check &
balance of safety reducing all the risks
hazards & its provides increasement in the
progress .
•Doing risk assessments, guidance of
operating machines, reduces the risk of
accidents.

7) Community :
•The organization developing safe working
provision which impact on a community
good.
•The community has positive thoughts
Organization & wishing to work in it.

8) Standardize:
•Continuous improvement in safety makes
them standardize organization everyone
will be willing to work or deal with them.
•They can be trustful & loyal in safety
management system.

9) Stakeholders :
•In organization making developing &
combining all employees, contractor’s, &
developing their moral, confidence in
health & management system in
organization.
10) Sustainability:
•Implementing long term safety & health
policies make the organization sustainable
in the field.
•Providing safe system of work employers,
employees trusting on them reducing in
accidents incident & insurance premiums.