- •Introduction
- •Chapter 1 Occupational safety and health legislation
- •1.1. Legislation of occupational safety
- •1.1.1. Occupational safety law
- •1.1.2. Protection of women labor
- •1.1.3. Protection of underage labor
- •1.1.4. Occupational safety financing
- •1.1.5. State standard acts of occupational safety
- •1.1.6. Standard acts of occupational safety in enterprise
- •1.1.7. General duty of care and responsibilities
- •1.1.8. International cooperation in occupational safety
- •1.2. State management of occupational safety
- •1.2.1. Bodies of state management of occupational safety
- •1.2.2. Occupational safety management system
- •1.3. Occupational safety training
- •1.3.1. Occupational safety training
- •1.3.2. Occupational safety instruction. Types of instruction.
- •1.4. State and common supervision of occupational safety
- •1.4.1. State supervision
- •1.4.2. Public supervision of occupational safety
- •1.5. Principles of accident prevention
- •1.5.1. Accident investigation and recording
- •1.5.2. Occupational disease investigation
- •1.5.3. Accident auditing
- •1.5.4. Accident analysis
- •1.5.5. Risk management
- •1.5.5.1. Hazard identification
- •Inspection worksheet
- •1.5.5.2. Risk assessment
- •1.5.5.3. Risk control
- •Chapter 2 Occupational sanitation and hygiene
- •2.1. Work area microclimate
- •2.1.1. Biological effect of microclimate parameters
- •2.1.2. Meteorological standard
- •2.2. Airborne contamination
- •2.2.1. Biological effect of airborne contaminants
- •2.2.2. Airborne contaminant exposure standard
- •2.3. Ventilation systems
- •2.3.1. Natural ventilation
- •2.3.2. Mechanical ventilation
- •2.3.3. Ventilation system requirements
- •2.4. Heating systems
- •2.5. Illumination of work areas
- •2.5.1. Biological effect and technical characteristics
- •2.5.2. Requirements to work area illumination
- •2.5.3. Types of work area illumination
- •2.5.4. Natural illumination
- •2.5.5. Artificial illumination
- •2.5.6. Artificial illumination standard.
- •2.5.7. Artificial illumination prediction methods
- •2.6. Protection from noise and vibration
- •2.6.1. Noise physical characteristics
- •2.6.2. Noise exposure standard
- •2.6.3. Noise control
- •2.6.4. Infra sound
- •2.6.5. Ultra sound
- •2.6.6. Vibration exposure
- •2.6.7. Vibration control
- •Chapter 3 Electrical safety
- •3.1. Biological effect
- •3.2. Types of electric injury
- •3.3. Why electric injury can be fatal
- •3.4. Basic factors resulting in electric injury
- •3.5. Causes of electric injuries
- •3.6. Assessing risk associated with operating power facity
- •3.6.1. Danger in one-phase power line.
- •3.6.2. Danger in three-phase power line with insulated neutral.
- •3.6.3. Danger in three-phase power line with grounded neutral.
- •3.7. Systems of electric injuries prevention
- •3.7.1. Technical protective systems applied for power facilities in normal operation.
- •3.7.2. Technical protective systems applied for power facilities in emergency operation.
- •3.8. Electro-protective equipment
- •3.9. First aid on electric injury
- •Chapter 4 Occupational safety regulations
- •4.1. Protection from atmospheric electricity. Lightning-proof category and zone type
- •4.1.1. Lightning-proof installation
- •4.2. Fire safety systems
- •4.2.1. Fire safety
- •4.2.2. Automatic fire detectors installing.
- •4.3. Safety rules for computer operators
- •4.3.1. Visual overloading.
- •4.3.2. Overexertion of skeletal-muscle system.
- •4.3.3. Skin irritation.
- •4.3.4. Central nervous system lesion.
- •4.3.5. Effecting on reproductive function.
- •4.4. Workplace aesthetic.
- •4.5. Occupational safety standards for computer workplace
- •4.6. Prophylaxis of occupational disease
- •4.6.1. Medical examination
- •4.6.2. Nutrition
- •4.6.3. Psychological relaxation
1.3.2. Occupational safety instruction. Types of instruction.
Occupational safety instruction includes entering, initial, periodical, unscheduled and focus instructions.
Entering instruction is provided to:
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all employed for permanent or temporary work irrespective to education, experience and position;
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employees from other enterprises assigned to do some work for enterprise, which is instructing;
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students of school or highest school or other trainees;
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person joining tour over enterprise;
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students entering any educational institution.
Initial instruction is conducted directly at the work place before starting work. It’s provided to:
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newly employed;
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employees transferred to another workshop;
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employees assigned for new work;
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students in every lab or area with chemical, physical or biological hazard, before using mechanisms, tools or materials within educational process, at the beginning of studying every new course.
Periodical instruction is provided to employees at workplace in terms set by the branch standard acts or by administration in accordance to exactly working environment. Terms are:
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quarterly at work with high risk;
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halfyearly for other works.
Unscheduled instruction is provided to employees at workplace or in occupational safety office in case of:
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introducing new or changed standard acts on occupational safety;
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changing technology, equipment, instruments, tools, raw materials and other what effects on occupational safety;
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noncompliance with standard acts what may cause or has caused an accident;
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low knowledge of employee on occupational safety at some workplace found while inspection;
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being off work longer 30 days if work has high risk, or longer 60 days for other work.
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noncompliance with standard acts caused by students in laboratory, classroom, or workshop what may cause or has caused an accident.
Focus instruction is provided to employees in case of:
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doing one-time work;
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liquidation of accident or disaster;
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doing work what needs job-admission, order or other documents.
1.4. State and common supervision of occupational safety
1.4.1. State supervision
State supervision (art. 44 of Occupational Safety Law of Ukraine) of occupational safety standard acts is duty of:
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Committee on Inspection of occupational safety of Ukraine (State Supervision of Occupational Safety);
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State Committee of Nuclear Energy Use and Radiation Safety;
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Bodies of Home Office Fire Safety of Ukraine;
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Sanitary and Epidemiological departments of Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Attorney General and attorneys process superior supervision of compliance with occupational safety laws.
Bodies of state supervision of occupational safety don’t depend on any private or public unions, political parties, local state administrations, and Council of Public Deputies, and act in accordance to statute approved by Cabinet of Ministry of Ukraine.
State supervision officials (inspectors of occupational safety) have the following rights:
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free admission to any object to be under supervision for inspecting compliance of occupational safety standards and require any needed information from the owner or director;
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regulation of management of any object, departments of council of ministers of Crimea Republic, local council of public deputies, ministries and other central of executive bodies to eliminate noncompliance and flaws in sphere of occupational safety;
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to shut enterprise, technology, workshop or workplace until noncompliance and flaws in occupational safety, which introduce hazard and risk in working environment is eliminated;
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to take to administrative responsibility employees guilty in breaking standards of occupational safety;
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to inform management of enterprise about noncompliance of some officials and if needed to send materials to prosecutions department to pose criminal responsibility;
Bodies of state supervision of occupational safety establish regulations, instructions and other acts of occupational safety.
An enterprise manager or owner has to arrange conditions for occupational safety inspectors to work.
Legislation poses responsibilities to officials of state supervision of occupational safety for fulfilling their duties.