Employers should in the first instance carry out a workplace risk assessment to identify where workers may be at risk from health hazards. When it is considered that even with control measures in place, people will still be at risk, the occupational health …
The mining and quarrying industry is regarded as a risk industry worldwide because of the hazardous nature of its activities. van den Honert and Vlok (2015) ... exposing employees to occupational hazards risk. Although accident prevention strategies exist in Zimbabwe, limited empirical evidence addresses strategies to improve ...
The National Occupational Standards for health, safety and environmental management in the quarrying industry were available when QR99 came into force, and should be used as the benchmark.
Marble excavation and processing are the most risky endeavors of the mining industry. Many precautions are taken to determine or prevent occupational accidents. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a risk assessment tool that can be easily applied to an occupational health and safety (OHS)-based improvement process.
Also, on a study of risk factors for work-related eye injuries among stone quarry workers (Ezisi, 2019), 64.1% of workers had work-related eye injuries, more injuries occurred in the younger age ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Centre (OSHC) of the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is one of the identified key agencies in the Philippines that would implement the United Nation's Minamata Convention on Mercury.4 Accordingly, the agency recognizes that the government urgently needs to develop plans to reduce or to ...
The Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) is an office within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) tasked with developing knowledge and technology advances for ensuring the well-being of mine workers. We perform this important work in close collaboration with many interested parties including …
The results suggest that quarry workers in Tamil Nadu are at a higher risk of developing pulmonary complications, including TB, which needs to be investigated for further details on lung complications and occupational hazards.
Evaluation of the Occupational Health Hazards among Workers in Quarry Industry in Abakaliki Using Biochemical Markers
The leading causes of occupational ill-health and injury in the mining and quarrying industry are: Moving vehicles. Manual handling / musculoskeletal injuries. Falls from heights. Rockfall/fall of sides. Vibration. Noise.
Reduces risk of accidents and near-misses – According to the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), there were nearly 3,500 mining-related injuries in 2022 and an average of 30 fatalities in the past decade. By implementing robust safety measures and critical control management practices, companies can save …
The prevalence of occupational injuries among blue-collar workers is higher in the stone-crushing industries due to high-risk and iterant nature of the work. These occupational injuries, in turn, caused workers' ill health, as well as death, which eventually diminish the gross domestic product. We aimed at assessing the attributes of …
Background Crystalline silica is considered as one of the most common and serious occupational hazards to workers' health. Although its association with lung cancer has been studied for many decades, the conclusion remains somewhat controversial. Our objectives are to review and summarize the epidemiological evidence on the relationship …
Health and Safety Health and safety at quarries Executive Page 4 of 104 PART III Risk control 31 Regulation 12 Inspection 31 Imminent risks 33 Records of inspection ...
This review provides literature views on ocular trauma, with emphasis on common causes of injury, occupational risk, socio-economic factors, management peculiarities and some implications on overall care approach, from prevention to treatment.A literature ...
Health and safety topics in the quarry industry. The main causes of occupational injury and ill health in the quarry industry are: Manual handling / musculoskeletal injuries. …
Always use it properly. High-visibility clothing. The use of high-visibility clothing greatly improves the visibility of workers in a quarry and reduces their exposure to the risk of an …
Depending on the results of the risk assessment, these arrangements could be in the form of instructions, rules and procedures, which are a specific requirement of Regulation 10 of the Quarries Regulations, 1999 as well as the Quarry Health and Safety Document (Regulation 7).
This Guideline "Working Safely with Geotechnical Risk in Quarries" together with the CMPA's Work Safely Reference Manual aims to support CMPA members in meeting the …
In this research, within the scope of occupational health and safety, risk analysis and risk assessment have been carried out using L matrix method in limestone quarries.
Along with its high economic potential, it is often associated with substantial costs externalisation, whether at the environmental and occupational levels [ 4, 5 ]. In the Open Pit Mining Industry [OPMI], the environmental and landscape impacts are unavoidable, and it is a sector with the highest occupational accident index [ 6 ].
This Guideline "Working Safely with Geotechnical Risk in Quarries" together with the MPA's Work Safely Reference Manual aims to support CMPA members in meeting the requirements of the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 by ensuring that: • Geotechnical hazards associated with quarry ground movement and quarry operations …
The study was undertaken to determine the occupational hazards, and safety measures among Stone quarry workers in Zaria, Northern Nigeria to obtain data on socio-demographic characteristics, occupational profile, hazards, safety measures and PEAK flow measurement. The health conditions of workers all over the world vary widely, …
Occupational hygienists (OH) are experts in hazard identification and measuring, assessing and controlling health risks associated with airborne contaminants, a known health risk in quarries. Respirable crystalline silica tops the list of significant hazards with an exposure standard of 50 millionths of a gram per cubic metre of air and the ...
The independent risk factors for occupational stress among workers were illiteracy, gender (''), married, divorced/separated, and suffering from some occupational health problem.
Reviews on the usefulness of these tools in evaluation of occupational health risks in quarry workers are hitherto limited. 57 and 22 workers of Abakaliki quarry industry and ministry of health ...
Background and Purpose The prevalence of occupational injuries among blue-collar workers is higher in the stone quarry and crushing industries due to a larger number of high-risk activities and an ...
Occupational health and safety has become a public health priority in industrialized countries and a primary concern, especially in high risk industries (Rachid et. al. 2015). Cement manufacturing is one of these industries. Cement is one of the most widely used construction material on earth. Because cement has been used commonly, its health ...
Occupational hazard prevention and control in a quarry environment: exposure to airborne dustO. gan, D. Lippiello & M. PinzariDepartment of Engineering, ROMA TRE University, …
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