TLE 7 HAZARD/RISKS

It is a situation poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or Environment

• Risks

• Hazards

• Disaster

It can affect the skin by contact or the body either through lungs if air is contaminated with chemicals, vapor, mist or dust.

• Biological Hazards

• Chemical Hazards

• Electric Hazards

these include insects, bacteria’s, fungi, plants worms animals and viruses.

• Radiation Hazards

• Physical Hazards

• Biological Hazards

Equipment such as radioactive gauging devices or the radioactive trace element used in analytical chemistry produce Ionizing radiation.

• Radiation Hazards

• Electrical Hazards

• Vibration Hazards

Extremes of cold or heat can cause problems such as tiredness, vulnerability to infections or reduced capacity to work.

• Temperature Hazards

• Physical Hazards

• Ergonomic Hazards

Inadequate lighting levels are a potential safety hazard.

• Lighting Hazards

• Noise Hazards

• Radiation Hazards

Excessive noise can disrupt concentration, interfere with communication, and result in loss in hearing.

• Physical Hazards

• Noise Hazards

• Vibration Hazards

the ‘fit’ between people and their work. covers risk of injury from manual handling procedures

• Vibration hazards

• Physical hazards

• Ergonomic hazards

These include a wide range of injury risks as diverse as being caught in or by machinery, buried in trenches or hurt by collapsing machinery.

• Physical hazards

• Ergonomic hazards

• Vibration Hazards

These include the risk of injury from all forms of electrical energy.

• Physical hazards

• Electrical Hazards

• Ergonomics Hazards