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1. Training Room 2

Types of Hazards

Training Room 2: Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control

Employers are required to instruct all workers who work with or are in the proximity of controlled products (hazardous materials) in the safety regulations that apply to working with controlled products. You may or may not initially be working with or close to controlled products, but it is important for you to know about them so that you can determine the procedures for working safely with many controlled products with which you may come into contact.

Objectives

Once you are done this section, you will be able to:

  1. identify the five major categories of hazards using specific examples from a variety of work environments
  2. describe common jobsite hazard identification processes
  3. explain and correctly use terminology related to hazard identification, assessment and control
  4. define health and the purpose of Occupational Health
  5. create a safety plan that includes prevention, identification, response and communication
  6. identify and describe safe and unsafe working conditions

Lesson 1: Types of Hazards

There are five major categories of hazards. Click here to view an interactivity that will teach you more about these categories.

Try this!

Can you think of an example of each of the 5 types of hazards either from your home or school environment?

Share your thoughts with a friend, family member or classmate.

Now try this game to see how much you learned.

Hazard vs Risk

What is the difference between a hazard and a risk?

Did you know?

Workers with less than six months experience are three times more likely to be injured than those with a year or more of experience?

Workers under the age of 25 are 33% more likely to be injured on the job than older workers?

There are several possible reasons:

  • lack of knowledge
  • lack of skill
  • lack of experience
  • trust that their supervisor will look after them (won't let them do anything dangerous)
  • desire to impress their supervisor
  • fear of asking questions and/or appearing stupid
  • more of a risk taking approach

Just the Facts presents the Top Dangers for Young Workers.

Here are 10 questions you should ask an employer about hazards and safety. If this link doesn't work, click here.

Emergency Response Plan

A serious emergency (such as an explosion, fire, or flood) could seriously affect the operation of a business and put the health, safety, and livelihood of many employees in jeopardy.

To prepare for an emergency, an employer should:

  1. Identify potential emergencies. This includes workplace hazards as well as hazards which may be introduced onto the work site by one of the following sources:
    • natural disasters
    • man-made events
    • technological failures
  2. Develop evacuation procedures.
  3. Create a communication plan.
  4. Train employees in procedure to follow during an emergency.
  5. Obtain, identify and maintain emergency equipment.
  6. Access resources such as disaster services.

Health and Safety at School

This interactivity will help you understand workplace health and safety at school.

Complete the activity, including the Check your Understanding quiz.

1.1. Page 2

Hazard Identification

Training Room 2: Hazard Identification, Assessment, and Control

Hazard Identification

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Tom Schmucker/Hemera/Thinkstock

A job hazard analysis is an exercise in detective work.  The goal is to discover the following:

• What can go wrong?
• What are the consequences?
• How could it arise?
• What are other contributing factors?
• How likely is it that the hazard will occur?
















Watch and Listen

This is a short interactive learning activity from Work Safe Alberta. Follow the instructions and work your way through the following:

  • Identifying Health and Safety Hazards
  • Types of Controls
  • Hazard Assessment & Control
  • Check Your Understanding quizzes

Once you are done, you can complete a quiz on Work Safe Alberta for practice.


Used with permission Alberta Human Resources.

From this list of quizzes, choose the Hazard Assessment, Elimination and Control quiz from near the top of the list. Complete it, and challenge your teacher, a friend, or one of your classmates when you are done. You will need the person's e-mail address before you start.

Discover

This quiz from Work Safe Alberta is a good review of how to identify workplace hazards.

There are many workplace safety videos available on the Internet. You might try watching one of these:

"Think" is a video by a high school student that placed second in the Work Safe Alberta video contest in 2010.

These audio and video clips from Employment and Immigration promote safety.

Bloody Lucky is a safety awareness campaign. (Warning: Some of these videos are very graphic.)

The Edutainment/Awareness page at Employment and Immigration has many different video and audio clips.

Assignment

Explore these resources and use them to complete the following activity
(if these links are broken, you may need to search for these on the Internet):

Create a job hazard analysis for one of the following scenarios:  

  • filling a lawn mower with gasoline
  • changing a ceiling light bulb
  • cleaning out a rain gutter
  • cutting a piece of wood with a handsaw 
  • mixing a pesticide/herbicide in a portable sprayer
  • working around a deep fryer 
  • setting up either a computer monitor or workstation

In your analysis, you should include

  1. a specific description of the physical, biological, chemical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards associated with each scenario
  2. an explanation of how to prevent hazards in each scenario
  3. any general safe workplace practices that may apply

Here is an example checklist from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

Save your document as "hazard analysis."

1.2. Page 3

Hazard Control

Training Room 2: Hazard Identification, Assessment, and Control

Controlling Hazards

According to the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Explanation Guide (2009) (pdf)

Whenever possible, hazards should be eliminated or controlled at their source – as close to where the problem is created as possible – using engineering solutions. If this is not possible, controls should be placed between the source and the workers. The closer a control is to the source of the hazard the better. If this is not possible, hazards must be controlled at the level of the worker.

There are different ways to control hazards:

  • Engineering controls are methods designed to isolate or remove hazards from the workplace. These include sharps disposal containers, laser scalpels, and laboratory fume hoods.
  • Work-practice controls are practical techniques used to reduce exposure by the way the work is managed. These include handwashing, handling of used needles and other sharps and contaminated reusable sharps, and collecting and transporting fluids and tissues according to approved safe practices.
  • Control hazards with personal protective equipment such as gloves, lab coats, gowns, shoe covers, goggles, glasses with side shields, masks, and resuscitation bags.

Assignment

Complete a workplace hazard assessment and control plan for either your workplace or your school. You may use this workplace hazard assessment, or you may create one of your own similar to this example.

Review your workplace hazard assessment with your teacher when done.

(You can find more examples in the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Explanation Guide, "Part 2: Hazard Assessment, Elimination and Control.")

1.3. Project 2

Project 2: Hazard ID

Project 2: Hazard Identification, Assessment, and Control

Project Skill Level: Basic

Estimated Required Time: 1-2 hours

Project Introduction

In this training room, you learned more about hazard identification, assessment, and control. Now you will apply your learning to specific work settings by completing a workplace hazard assessment as well as by analyzing a specific scenario for hazards.

Project Assessment

Formative Self-Assessment

You will complete the following reflection once you have completed the project.

  • How well did you follow the directions given for the project?
  • Did you collect, analyze, and interpret information appropriately with supporting details?
  • Did you organize information in an appropriate way?
  • How well did you communicate ideas?
  • What were your challenges in completing this project? What were your successes?
  • What do you know now that you didn't know before you began this training room?
  • Will your approach to workplace hazard assessment be different now?

Summative Assessment

When marking project assignments, the teacher will consider the extent to which you do the following:

  • Follow the directions given for the project.
  • Collect, analyze, and interpret information appropriately with supporting details.
  • Organize information in an appropriate way, including an introduction, body, and conclusion.
  • Communicate ideas clearly and correctly, including citing references.
Your assignment will be marked using this project rubric.

Project Preparation

What Is Required?

  • the workplace hazard assessment document
  • a workplace to assess (contact your teacher if you are unsure)
  • access to the Internet or other resources to complete the job hazard analysis

What Do I Need to Do?

This training room is designed to provide you with all the information you need to complete this project.

How to Do It?

  1. Complete the training room.
  2. Complete the assignments in the training room including the following:
    • hazard analysis of a specific scenario (see the Hazard Identification content page)
    • workplace hazard assessment and control plan for your workplace or school
  3. Submit your documents.
  4. Write your reflection.

What Do I Already Know?

How do I identify and control hazards in my workplace?

Checking My Work

You will be assessed using the project rubric based on the quality of your written work and the depth of your responses. Open the rubric and assess yourself or have a classmate, family member, or friend review your work and provide feedback before submitting your assignment to ensure that you are satisfied with your quality of work.

Project Summary

  • Once you have completed this project place the hazard analysis assignment, the workplace hazard assessment document, and your reflections in your course folder.