Understanding K3 (Health Safety)

A. Understanding Health and Safetya. Occupational HealthUnderstanding is always portrayed as a healthy physical condition, mental and social person who is not only free from disease or health problems but also showed the ability to interact with the environment and jobs.The new paradigm in health aspects to strive for a healthy stay healthy and not just treat, treat or cure health problems or illnesses. Therefore, the main concern in the field of health is more directed towards the possibility of disease prevention and maintenance of optimum health.Person's health status, according to blum (1981) is determined by four factors namely:A. Environment, a physical environment (natural, synthetic) chemicals (organic / inorganic, heavy metal, dust), biological (viruses, bacteria, microorganisms) and socio-cultural (economic, education, occupation).2. Behavior that includes attitudes, habits, behavior.3. health care: promotion, care, treatment, disability prevention, rehabilitation, and4. genetic, which is every human congenital factors."Job may negatively affect health but vice versa can also work to improve the health and welfare of the workers when properly managed. Similarly, the health status of workers greatly affects work productivity. Enable the achievement of healthy workers work better when compared to workers health impaired ".According Suma'mur (1976) Occupational health is a specialized health sciences / medicine and its practice in order that the worker / community worker obtain the highest degree of good health physically, mentally and socially to the business of preventive or curative of diseases / health problems caused by factors job and work environment as well as against common diseases.The concept of occupational health nowadays more and more change, not just the "health sector" alone but also lead to health improvement for all people in doing their jobs (total health of all at work).
b. Safety at WorkSafety or Occupational Safety, in terms of day to day is often called a safety course, be interpreted as a philosophy of thought and effort to ensure the integrity and perfection of both physical and spiritual labor in particular and people in general and the results of culture and his work. Interpreted in terms of science as a knowledge and its application in an attempt to prevent possible accidents and occupational diseases.Definition of Accident (accident) is an occurrence or undesirable event that harm to humans, property damage or loss to process.Nearly understanding Alas, that in terms of safety referred to the incident (incident), there is also mention the term "near-miss" or "near-accident", is an occurrence or undesirable event in which a slightly different circumstances will result in harm to humans, property damage or loss to the
c. Risk Factors in the WorkplaceRelated to factors that affect the health conditions of work, as mentioned above, in performing the work to consider a variety of potential hazards and risks that may result from a working system or way of working, the use of machinery, equipment and materials in addition to environmental and human factors.The term hazard or potential hazard to show that something is a potential to cause injury or illness, damage or loss that may be experienced by workers or agencies. Were likely to manifest the potential dangers, often called the risk. Both the "hazard" and "risk" is not always a danger, as long as control efforts implemented properly.Workplace, health and performance of one worker is affected by:A. Workload burden of physical, mental, and social workers so that placement efforts according to his ability to consider2. Work capacity is more dependent on education, skills, physical fitness, body size, nutritional status and so on.3. Working as an additional environmental burden, whether it be physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic, and psychosocial aspects.