Industrial safety

1. PRESENTED By:
AJATSHATRU SHARMA
ANITA SHARMA
SAKSHI ARORA
MBA 3
RD
SEM

2. Industrial safety is primarily a
management activity which is
concerned with
Reducing
Controlling
Eliminating hazards from the industries
or industrial units.

3. Significance of Industrial Safety
Industrial causes a great loss to both the
Employer & Employee, that’s it is having
importance
Cost of compensation
Cost of medical-aid
Cost of training a new worker
Cost of the lost time
Cost of investigation
Cost of supervision & inspections
Cost to the Govt. in terms of factory
inspectors, & public health services

4. Contd.
Cost of spoilage of materials
Cost of the damage of machinery
Cost of cost of wages payble during injury
Cost of loss of morale; &
Cost of loss to the worker and his family

5. To prevent accidents in the plant by reducing the hazard to minimum.
To eliminate accident caused work stoppage and lost production.
To achieve lower workmen’s compensation, insurance rates and reduce
all other direct and indirect costs of accidents.
To prevent loss of life, permanent disability and the loss of income of
worker by eliminating causes of accidents.
To evaluate employee’s morale by promoting safe work place and good
working condition
To educate all members of the organization in continuous state of safety
mindless and to make supervision competent and intensely safety
minded.

6. Measurement & Records of
Accidents
Two main ratios used to measure accidents are
1. Accident Frequency Rate
2. Accident Severity Rate
AFC = No. of injuries * 10,00,000/ Total no.
of man hours worked
ASR = no. of man day lost * 10,00,000/Total
no. of man hours worked

7. Causes of Industrial Accidents
1. Unsafe conditions
a. The job itself
b. Work schedules
c. Psychological conditions
d. Machinery & Equipment
2. Unsafe Acts
3. Miscellaneous Causes

8. Measures to ensure Industrial Safety
1. Safety Policy
2. Safety Committee
3. Safety Engineering
a. Guarding of machinery
b. Material handling equipment
c. Safety devices
d. Ergonomics
e. Plan maintenance
f. General house keeping
4. Safety Education & Training
5. Role of Government

9. Engineering: i.e. safety at the design, equipment installation
stage.
Education: i.e. education of employees in safe practices.
Enlistment: i.e. it concerns the attitude of the employees and
management towards the programmed and its purpose. This
necessary arose the interest of employees in accident
prevention and safety consciousness.
Encouragement: i.e. to enforce adherence to safe rules and
practices.

10. Safety audit –
A safety audit subjects each area of a company’s activity to a
systematic critical examination with the object of minimizing
loss.
Safety survey-
A safety survey is a detailed examination in depth of a narrower
field of activity.
Safety inspection-
A routine scheduled inspection of a unit or department, which
may be
carried out by someone ( may be a safety representative ) from
within the unit, possibly
accompanied by the safety advisor. The inspection would check
maintenance standards,

12. 21 - Fencing of machinery
22 - Work on or near machinery in motion
23 - Employment of young persons on dangerous
machines.
24 - Striking gear and devices for cutting off power
25 - Self-acting machines
26 - Casing of new machinery
27 - Prohibition of employment of women and children
near cotton-openers
28 - Hoists and lifts
29 - Lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles
30 - Revolving machinery
31 - Pressure plant

13. 32 - Floors, stairs and means of access
33 - Pits, sumps openings in floors, etc
34 - Excessive weights
35 - Protection of eyes.
36 - Precautions against dangerous fumes, gases
36A - Precautions regarding the use of portable electric light.
37 - Explosive or inflammable dust, gas, etc
38 - Precautions in case of fire
39 - Power to require specifications of defective parts or tests
of stability
40 - Safety of buildings and machinery
40A - Maintenance of buildings
40B - Safety Officers
41 - Power to make rules to supplement this Chapter

15. Stipulate a national minimum wage to give people dignity.
Institute a comprehensive social security legislation
covering unemployment, health insurance, old age
pension, disability and regulation of employment for all
workers.
Ensure gainful rehabilitation in terms of alternate land,
livelihood, shelter, and all basic necessities concerning
health, education and connectivity for all people displaced
by development projects, closures, lockouts, relocation,
man-made and natural disaster.

16. Institute employment guarantee for urban and rural areas
throughout the year with separate cards for women and
for all adults who demand employment.
Introduce special programs to impart training and
entrepreneurial skills, capital and credit facilities without
collateral and market support to women-headed
households and all women.
Enforce existing labour laws in special economic zones,
export promotion zones and free trade zones.
Ensure full-time wage work for poor women and skill and
entrepreneurship training for self employed women.

17. Govt. schemes for women must ensure equal pay even if
the task are not same.
Crèches must be provided for all women’s.
Minimum wages for women in the informal sector and
domestic work.
Equal wages and occupational safety for women
construction workers.
Work related schemes should be based on market trends.
All workers in all sectors should be given identity cards.