September 9, 2010
Providing a safe and healthy environment for employees should be the prime object of any employer, business or organization. Recent survey take of industrial workers shows some worrisome facts about health and safety conditions, mainly in the manufacturing industries. According to the data, hundreds of employee related deaths and hundreds of injuries are still being report each year due to accidents at workplace. These accidents occur because of poor working conditions, no accountability personnel, improper operate procedures of the machines, damaged machinery, and little to no training procedure.
During the Industrial Revolution, the unsafe working conditions were apparent but ignored by the government and businesses. The primary focus during that time was machines that were capable of mass production compared to human hands. As the time progressed, the designs of the machinery changed to maximize the production, but very little thought about the working conditions, safety, or proper training went into the designs. Men, women, and children had to work long hours in harsh conditions with no breaks to meet their employers demands. Needless to say, thousands of people were maimed, mutilated, or killed because of the negligence.
OSHA Industrial Safety Training: Then, several catastrophic accidents occurred and “workers safety” became a concern for business. The first employee compensation law was passed in 1911, by 1913 the US government formed the National Safety council in New York. The Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed and federal OSHA board was formed in 1970. The federal OSHA board was granted the authority to establish safety standards to which every business and organization had to comply. Even today, if a company is not in compliance to the regulations, then the company is held accountable, fees and fines compounded daily until the regulation is met.
OSHA has changed and updated the rules and regulations to make sure both employer and employee have equal treatment. OSHA standards are one of the greatest challenges, if not the only challenge, a Safety Manager of an organization has. OSHA had made it mandatory for all organizations to appoint a well qualified Safety Officer. The Safety Officer’s role is to analyze the risks, oversee Industrial Safety Training programs, and the prevention of accidents and injuries in the workplace. The major causes of the accidents and injuries are falls, electrocutions, being caught in, between, and/or stuck by the machines. Industrial workers have a higher risk of potential accidents because they operate heavy machines, like driving forklifts, have contact with slippery floors, hanging things, sharp objects, blood-borne pathogens, fire and violence at workplace. Granted, that is only a few examples of the vulnerabilities to health and safety in the workplace.
The Industry Specific Training covers all of the topics required by OSHA’s regulations for construction establishments, manufacturing units, public utilities, hospitals, paramilitary, and many more. Upon completion, of the Industrial Safety Course, the employee is issued a Certificate of completion that is good for a full year.
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