Chapter article Health, Safety and Occupational Safety


Safety is a safety-related equipment, the workplace and the environment, and ways to do the job. Workplace covering land, sea, land and water in, and in the air. Safety to be one very important aspect, given the risk of danger in the application of technology. Safety is everyone's job is to work, every worker and the community at large.
The purpose of health, safety and job security are:
A. Protect workers from the bad possibilities that may occur due to carelessness of workers / students.
2. Maintaining the health of the worker / student to obtain an optimal result of the work.
3. Reduce the number of sickness or death rates among workers.
4. Prevent infectious diseases and other diseases caused by working fellow.
5. Creating and improving physical and mental health.
6. Ensure the safety of any person residing in the workplace.
7. Source of production is maintained and used safely and efficiently.
Officers laboratory / workshop faced many dangers, outlines the dangers encountered in the laboratory / workshop can be classified among other things:
A. Fire or explosion hazard of substances or flammable materials or explosive.
Fire danger can arise here because of several factors, including:
a. The human factor
b. Technical factors.
c. Natural factors
2. Toxic and caustic materials.
3. Radiation hazards
4. Burn wounds, burns caused by exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace sharp objects.
5. Due to electric shock
6. Cuts from broken glass base and sharp objects.
7. Danger of infection from bacteria, viruses or parasites, this danger maerupakan biological hazards caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc..
Manejemen kesalamatan and health are the goals that have been defined previously by using other people rock (G.Terry). To achieve these objectives or activities G.Terry divided into four management functions are:
A. Planning.
2. Organization.
3. Implementation.
4. Supervision
The scope of the health, safety and job security in principle covers three aspects, namely the aspect of labor, employment and place of work, for more details will be described one by one:
a) Employee / Student
The workers / students in a company / school health should be maintained properly. It is very important for improving the performance so as to obtain the productive forces and the professionals, so that in turn will help the company / school in achieving its goals.
b) Works.
Work can be done if there are workers. But workers / students also will not mean much if the work performed are not treated in accordance with the rules or established procedures.
Efforts to prevent / minimize accidents, can be done by:
1). Arrangement of work procedures, among others by doing good scheduling and reasonable working hours and the rest intervals between the hours of work.
2). Implement and comply with school rules or statutory number of hours of work.
3). Menerapkapkan rolling work (shift / hour) with the type of work to be done. These results need to be done to avoid the work of kajenuhan or boredom that results in accidents.