Pedestrians and cyclists

A driver, pedestrian or cyclist needs enough time to react successfully if they meet one another (for example, where there is limited visibility or where other noise might mask the approach of a vehicle).

Wherever it is reasonable to do so, you should provide separate routes or pavements for pedestrians to keep them away from vehicles. The most effective way to do this is to separate pedestrian from vehicle activity, by making routes entirely separate. Where possible, pedestrian traffic routes should represent the paths people would naturally follow (often known as ‘desire lines’), to encourage people to stay on them.

Vocabulário:

enough - suficiente

react - reagir

successfully - com sucesso

approach - abordagem

entirely - inteiramente

fonte: http://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/separating.htm

Valter Souza

CD277 – Proposals on the review of the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas regulations 1987 (DSHAR), Approved Code of Practice (COP 18) and guidance HS(R)27

This consultation invites views on HSE’s proposals to replace the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987 (DSHAR) with new shorter and more up to date regulations. The consultation also seeks views on a new shorter Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) to support the regulations.  The proposals are intended to retain existing levels of health and safety protection in relation to dangerous substances in harbour areas in Great Britain.  The proposed new regulations will be re-named the ‘Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations’.

HSE has reviewed DSHAR in response to the ‘Red Tape Challenge’ as part of its ongoing activities to simplify the health and safety regulatory framework.  The review has also been undertaken because developments in other areas mean that aspects of the existing regulations are now out of date.

Vocabulário:

harbour - porto

dangerous - perigoso

invites - convida

shorter - mais curta

ongoing - continuo

reviewed - revisado

fonte: http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/condocs/cd277.htm

Thalis Paschoal

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

The National Safety Council is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy.

about - sobre
council - conselho
nonprofit - sem fins lucrativos
road - estrada
through - através dos
leadership - liderança
research - pesquisa

source: http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/13365-dot-offers-reminder-on-electronic-submission-of-drug-testing-forms

Elisângela Lara

Report an Incident

Report an Incident

If workplace injuries or illnesses occur, the employer constructor, or mine or mining plant owner have the following duties to notify certain people:

• If a person, whether a worker or not, has been critically injured or killed at the workplace, the employer and the constructor, if any, must immediately notify the Ministry of Labour Health & Safety Contact Centre, the joint health and safety committee (or health and safety representative) and the union, if there is one. This notice must be by telephone or other direct means. Within 48 hours, the employer must also notify, in writing, a director of the Ministry of Labour, giving the circumstances of the occurrence and any information that may be prescribed [section 51(1)].
• If an accident, explosion or fire occurs, or if there is an incident of workplace violence, and a person is disabled or requires medical attention, the employer must notify the joint health and safety committee (or health and safety representative) and the union, if any, within four days of the incident. This notice must be in writing and must contain any prescribed information [section 52(1)]. If required by an inspector, this notice must also be given to a director of the Ministry of Labour.
• If an employer is told that a worker has an occupational illness or that a claim for an occupational illness has been filed with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, the employer must notify a director of the Ministry of Labour, the joint health and safety committee (or health and safety representative) and the union, if any, within four days. This notice must be in writing and must contain any prescribed information [section 52(2)]. The duty to notify applies not only to current workers but also to former ones [section 52(3)].
• Even if no one is hurt, written notice of an accident or unexpected event that could have caused an injury at a construction site or in a mine or mining plant is required from the constructor of the project or owner of the mine or mining plant. This notice must be given to a director of the Ministry of Labour, the joint health and safety committee (or health and safety representative) and the trade union, if any, within two days and must contain any prescribed information [section 53].

Self-employed people are required to notify a director of the Ministry of Labour, in writing, if they sustain an occupational injury or illness.

Source: http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/incident.php

Glossary:

Whether a worker: Se um trabalhador

Prescribed: Prescrito

Occurs: Ocorre

Disabled: Desativado

Claim: Reivindicação

Insurance: Seguro

Hurt: Ferido

Office workers are at risk of a range of ailments including repetitive strain injuries, vision problems, weight gain and even chronic diseases

Eye strain

Most employees who work in an office will spend the great majority of their day focusing on a computer screen, which can lead to a variety of eye and vision problems covered by the term Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS).

Dr Salber explains that these issues affect somewhere between 64 and 90 per cent of computer users after prolonged use, with symptoms including eyestrain, headaches, ocular discomfort, dry eye, diplopia (double vision) and blurred vision.

'The cause varies by symptom,' she explains. 'Eye strain may be caused by repeated use of the eye muscles in a repetitive pattern, similar to RSI of other muscle groups. Dry eyes may be related to reduced blinking, exposure to air conditioning, or both.'

Although it can be hard to limit your screen time during the working day, Dr Salber notes that there are a number of things workers can do to avoid eye and vision problems or reduce the symptoms.

'Proper positioning of the computer screen, avoidance of glare from the screen by use of anti-glare screens, and taking breaks from the computer are all ways that are recommended to avoid getting CVS,' she says.

'Over the counter products are available that can help with dry eyes, including both drops and gels. If visual symptoms persist, you should see an eye professional to be sure there are no other issues that require treatment, such as a change in refraction.'


souce: ★

Glossary:

lead - levar
blurred - turva
symptom - sintoma
explains - explica
strain - tensão
repeated - repetido
blinking - piscando
both - ambos
Although - embora
avoid - evitar
Proper - bom, adequado
avoidance - evitar

Workplace health promotion (wellness)

  Workplace health promotion (wellness)

Workplace Health Promotion programs, also referred to as Wellness programs, provide a proactive approach to healthy living for all employees at the workplace and cover a broad range of health issues.

Examples of wellness programs include, but are not limited to, environmental, cultural and policy support for:

• active living
• healthy eating
• smoking cessation
• fitness
• immunization against influenza and other infectious disease

Evidence shows that the most effective wellness programs are those that incorporate the stages of change model (personal readiness to make lifestyle changes), address various levels of learning (awareness, knowledge and skills development, behaviour change), and make supportive environmental modifications.

Unlike health and safety programs, employee participation in wellness programs must always be completely voluntary. Through needs assessments, the employer should determine what workers' health needs and preferences are, and then plan programs and policies in response, but it is still the worker's choice whether to participate or no

VOCABULARY

Also – também

Referred – patricinado

Broad – amplo

Issues  - problemas

Awareness – consciência

Knowledge – conhecimento

Skills- habilidades

Unlike- ao contrário

Though- embora

Choice – escolha

Emerging risks

Effective prevention of new and emerging risks requires up-to-date and reliable information.
To fulfill its mission, EU-OSHA requires intelligence concerning the emergence of new risks to occupational health and safety, and has been developing a work stream of research on these topics since the early 2000s.

Source: <https://osha.europa.eu/en/emerging-risks>

Glossary

requires: exige
reliable: confiáveis
fulfill: cunprir
concerning: relativa
been: vindo
developing: desenvolver
research: pesquisa
stream: fluxo

New Visual Management Techniques Publication Available

New Visual Management Techniques Publication Available

Visual Workplace Inc. has released a new free publication about visual management techniques to create a safe workplace environment. The document covers a variety of topics to help organize a safe work place, including the use of PPE, covers machine, equipment and process protocols as well as offering facility safety instructions.

istockphoto.com/kevinkraft

The publication makes note that visual information is essential to help make safe decisions at a workplace facility. This allows the organization many benefits including increased quality, reduced injuries and creates a sustainable workplace organization among others.

The document also offers a list of top 12 visual workplace safety/emergency notification systems list, photos of PPE and their instructions as well as other protective work instructions. There are also tips on machine and equipment safety like suggestions of organizing by color distinction and identifying lock out/tag out processes through visual aids. 

Glossary:

Available - disponível

Management - gestão

Covers - abrange

PPE - EPI (equipamento de proteção individual)

Allows - permite

increased - aumento

Luiz Ricardo Podestá

Radiofrequency Fields

The remarkable growth of RF technology over the last few years has raised public concerns about possible associations between RF energy and adverse health outcomes. Canada, in fact, was one of the first industrialized countries to recognize the need for RF exposure guidelines. Health Canada developed its first RF exposure limit guideline, known as Safety Code 6, in 1979. Since then, Safety Code 6 has been updated several times with the most recent revision in 2015. The exposure limits outlined in Safety Code 6 are set far below the lowest level of RF exposure that could produce potentially harmful effects in humans.

Safety Code 6 is referenced in regulations written under the Canada Labour Code and used as a standard by federal government departments, crown corporations, and other organizations. In addition, Canadian provinces and territories have generally adopted these exposure recommendations.


summary:

remarkable growth: notavel o crescimento
raised: levantado
 between : entre a
outcomes: resultados
recognize : reconhecer
 exposure: exposição
updated: atualizado
outlined: definido
harmful: nocivos
since: desde

Aluno: Geovanni G da Silva

Fonte: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/radiofreq/index-eng.php

Violence/Bullying

Name: João Clauber de Carvalho Canela
Turm: Turma pós graduação Engenharia Segurança no trabalho.




Violence/Bullying

Most people think of workplace violence and bullying as acts of physical assault. However, it is a much broader problem, consisting of any act in which a person is abused, threatened, intimidated, assaulted, degraded, or humiliated in his or her employment.


Source: http://www.ccohs.ca/topics/wellness/violence/

Vocabulary: Most People: Maioria das Pessoas.
                     Acts of: Atos de
                     physical assault: Agressão física
                     However, it is: No entanto é.
                     threatened: Ameaçados
                     assaulted: agredido.

Cadernos de Saúde Pública versão impressa ISSN 0102-311X Occupational accidents: an expression of social violence.

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

versão impressa ISSN 0102-311X

The main objective of this study is to underscore the link between violence and the work process. Brazil is presently characterized by a very high level of occupational accidents, which amount to a form of structural violence in the workplace. The study considers the situation in the international context, with a brief analysis of different data in a variety of economic sectors. Brazilian data on occupational accidents obtained from National Social Welfare System records and death certificate archives are also discussed. In apparent contrast to international data, the Brazilian records demonstrate that outdoor activities, and in particular traffic accidents, are the major causes of death at work. Problems relating to the quality of data and to the classification of different types of accidents are also examined.

VOCABULARY

the link between = sublinhar a ligação
entre

presently characterized by = presentemente caracterizado por

which amount to = que ascendem a

brief analysis = análise breve

obtained from = obtido de

outdoor activities = atividades ao ar livre

Lucinea

New OSHA Rescue Requirements for Confined Space Retrieval: What You Should Know

Confined spaces exist in nearly every industry, and many workers come into contact with at least one during the course of their work. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, about 90 deaths involving confined spaces occur every year across a wide range of industries. Unfortunately, two-thirds of those deaths are workers killed while trying to rescue someone else from a confined space. This is often due to the critical nature of these rescues, which sometimes lead to poorly planned retrieval attempts.

Many workers and employers are unaware of the dangers confined spaces pose, which include:

• Lack of oxygen
• Poisonous gas, fume, or vapor
• Liquids and solids suddenly filling the confined space or releasing gases into it when disturbed
• Fire and explosions
• Residues left behind that can give off gas, fume, or vapor
• Hot working conditions
• Falling objects
• Moving parts of equipment and machinery
• Electrical shock resulting from defective extension cords, welding cables, etc.
• Poor visibility
• Substances entering through piping such as gases, hot substances, or water

Very often, injuries and deaths occur as a result of work being carried out in a confined space, such as welding, painting, flame cutting, or using chemicals.

Source: https://osha.washington.edu/news/new-osha-rescue-requirements-confined-space-retrieval-what-you-should-know

Vocabulary: 

across: através

wide: largo

range: alcance

unfortunately: infelizmente

trying: tentando

poorly: mal

lack: falta

oxygen: oxigênio

entering: entrando

piping: encanamento.

Workers' rights under the OSH Act

Workers' rights under the OSH Act

Workers are entitled to working conditions that do not pose a risk of serious harm. To help assure a safe and healthful workplace, OSHA also provides workers with the right to:

§  Ask OSHA to inspect their workplace;

§  Use their rights under the law without retaliation and discrimination;

§  Receive information and training about hazards, methods to prevent harm, and the OSHA standards that apply to their workplace. The training must be in a language you can understand;

§  Get copies of test results done to find hazards in the workplace;

§  Review records of work-related injuries and illnesses;

§  Get copies of their medical records;

Pose: pose

Assure: assegurar

Retaliation: retalhação

Done: feito

medical records: registros medicos

You have the right to a safe workplace -

You have the right to a safe workplace -

En Español - Tiếng Việt Nam

You have the right to a safe workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work. The law requires employers to provide their employees with working conditions that are free of known dangers. The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards. OSHA also provides information, training and assistance to workers and employers. Workers may file a complaint to have OSHA inspect their workplace if they believe that their employer is not following OSHA standards or that there are serious hazards.

Contact us if you have questions or want to file a complaint. We will keep your information confidential. We are here to help you..

Prevent: prevenir

Being: sendo

Harmed: prejudicado

Enforces: impõe

standards.: padões

complaint: queixa

Protecting Construction Workers in Confined Spaces: Small Entity Compliance Guide

The special dangers of confined spaces

A confined space is a space whose configuration and/or contents may present special dangers not found in normal work areas. Confined spaces may be poorly ventilated and, as a result, contain insufficient oxygen or hazardous levels of toxic gases. Working in a tight space can prevent a worker from keeping a safe distance from mechanical and electrical hazards in the space. Fumes from a flammable liquid that is used in a poorly ventilated area can reach explosive levels. Such hazards endanger both the workers in the confined space and others who become exposed to the hazards when they attempt to rescue injured workers. In a number of cases, rescue workers have themselves died or been injured because they did not have the training and equipment necessary to conduct the rescue safely.

Source: https://www.osha.gov/pls/publications/publication.html

Glossary:

• Confined space –  espaço confinado
• Poorly ventilated – mal ventilado
• Tight  space  –  espaço apertado
• Reach –  alcançar/ atingir
• Such –  Tal
• Endanger –  pôr em perigo.

Aluna: Aline Cristina Mendes

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) produces comprehensive, accurate, and timely counts of fatal work injuries. CFOI is a Federal-State cooperative program that has been implemented in all 50 States and the District of Columbia since 1992. To compile counts that are as complete as possible, the census uses multiple sources to identify, verify, and profile fatal worker injuries. Information about each workplace fatal injury—occupation and other worker characteristics, equipment involved, and circumstances of the event—is obtained by cross-referencing the source records, such as death certificates, workers' compensation reports, and Federal and State agency administrative reports. To ensure that fatal injuries are work-related, cases are substantiated with two or more independent source documents, or a source document and a follow-up questionnaire.

Data compiled by the CFOI program are issued annually for the preceding calendar year. These data are used by safety and health policy analysts and researchers to help prevent fatal work injuries by:

• Informing workers of life threatening hazards associated with various jobs;
• Promoting safer work practices through enhanced job safety training;
• Assessing and improving workplace safety standards; and
• Identifying new areas of safety research.

The National Safety Council adopted the CFOI figure beginning with the 1992 data year as the authoritative count for work-related deaths in the United States.

source: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshfat1.htm

Vocabulary:

comprehensive - abrangente

accurate - preciso

obtained - obtido

follow-up - dar segmento

issued - emitido

annually -  anualmente

preceding - precendente

threatening - ameaçando

Promoting - promover

Assessing - avaliando

 

Workplace Safety

Size does not matter

Workplace safety programs are important to all nonprofit organizations. Remember: employees and volunteers are a nonprofit's most important asset. One might argue that a nonprofit run by one employee or one volunteer is at greater risk than a nonprofit with thousands of staff members. The argument would be: If that one person is out of commission, the nonprofit's mission is nonfunctioning. For all intents and purposes that nonprofit is defunct. That is not to say the nonprofit with thousands of paid and volunteer employees is at less risk, just that there's more of a chance that someone can step into the void and perform the tasks of the injured or ill person.

Create ownership of the program

Paid and volunteer staff members' health and safety are affected not only by their own actions but by those of their co-workers. Senior management must help staff members manage hazards associated with their work (tasks or responsibilities). They also need to make certain employees and volunteers are fit for work. Fitness for work involves drug and alcohol issues, physical and emotional well-being, and fatigue and stress.

People need to be engaged with the creation and implementation of the safety program for it to succeed. For example, the nonprofit is responsible for supplying employees and volunteers with appropriate safety equipment, but staff are responsible for wearing it at the right times and places. The nonprofit should provide paid and volunteer staff with training to help them carry out their assignments, but these staff members are responsible for attending this training, asking questions and telling supervisors if they do not understand what is being explained. This may require staff members to act assertively — to speak up for themselves: 'I do not understand how to use these, could you please show me.'

Source:https://nonprofitrisk.org/tools/workplace-safety/nonprofit/c1/wkplcsafety.htm

Glossary:  

Nonprofit: Sem fins lucrativos

Asset: De ativos

Staff: Funcionários

Less risk: Menos riscos

Void: vazio

Drug: droga

Telling: dizendo

being: sendo

Themselves: si mesmos

Assertively: assertivamente

Could:poderia