Olugbenro Falola

Health and Safety in All Sectors: Management, Law, Health and Sciences, Engineering, Oil & Gas Olugbenro Falola

Everyone is exposed to hundreds of hazard and risk of injuries every day either at home, workplace or on the road. Hundreds of people involves in accidents across the world either at work, home or on the road due to negligence caused by their or someone unsafe acts and ignorance of proper safety measures. Parents are expected to take reasonable care to health and safety of their kids as employers to employees. Hazard is anything that can harm people while the risk is the probability that the identified hazard will harm or cause accident. Employer is responsible to carry out a proper risk assessment in order to provide a safe working environment for their workers. Without a proper risk assessment we can?t know the right safety equipments to use. However, using of safety equipments or measures does not eliminate the risk but only reduce it or lessen the effects of accident. Since safety equipments can only minimise injury, therefore there is need for emergency procedures/plans or first aid that must be followed in case if accident occurs. Finally, it is necessary to report safety issues to the person in charge in order to make necessary corrections where needed.