Occupational Safety Techniques: Prevention and Control

Occupational Safety: Methods and Systems

When we discuss methods, systems, or ways of acting to detect and correct factors involved in workplace accidents, we aim to control their consequences through Safety Prevention Techniques.

Core Operational Techniques

The most effective preventive techniques aim to prevent or reduce damage, ensuring that hazardous events do not occur. These are categorized into two main operational areas:

• Prevention: Proactive measures to stop accidents.
• Protection: Measures to mitigate damage.

Classification of Safety Techniques

Techniques are classified by their scope and purpose:

• By Scope: General and Specific.
• By Purpose: Analytical and Operational.

Furthermore, techniques such as Safety Conception help secure the production process during the design phase.

Analytical and Active Techniques

To identify technical factors that may originate an accident before it occurs, we utilize Safety Inspections. Active techniques are designed to verify compliance with established preventive activities.

Reactive Techniques and Incident Analysis

Reactive techniques involve investigating, analyzing, and registering failures within the management system to prevent recurrence.

Identifying Unsafe Conditions and Actions

To specifically identify both unsafe conditions and unsafe actions within a process, the following techniques are recommended:

• Safety Inspection: To identify physical hazards.
• Safety Observation: To monitor behavioral compliance.

Addressing Behavioral Issues

If personnel do not abide by safety rules, we must investigate the root causes of this behavior. In such cases, the Safety Note technique is used to address and correct these behavioral gaps.

The Purpose of Planned Inspections

The primary purpose of applying a planned inspection is to identify and eliminate the causes that increase the risk of workplace accidents.