Controls in Occupational Safety and Health

                                  

Hazard control efforts:

1. Substitution of chemicals that are harmful
2. The process of isolation
3. Local installation exhauster
4. General ventilation
5. Use of personal protective equipment
6. Ketatarumahtanggaan company
7. Procurement of sanitary facilities
8. Medical examination before employment and periodically
9. Organization of training / counseling to all employees and employers
10. Administrative control

Control hierarchy:

1. Elimination
2. Substitution
3. Control engineering
4. Administrative control
5. Personal protective equipment

Common Problems APD:

1. Not all APD through laboratory testing, so it is unknown degree of protection.
2. Uncomfortable and sometimes make the wearer difficult to work
3. APD can create new hazards
4. The protection provided PPE is difficult to be monitored
5. APD maintenance obligations transferred from management to employees
6. Effectiveness is often dependent APD "GOOD FIT" on workers
7. Confidence in the APD will hinder the development of new control technologies.

Problems in the use of PPE:

1. Workers do not want to use with reason;
• Not aware / not understood
• Heat
• Crowded
• Not comfortable
• Unsightly
• Weight
• Interfere with the work
• Not in accordance with the existing hazard
• There is no doubt
• Supervisor also did not wear
2. Not provided by the company
• Lack of understanding
• Pretended not to understand
• The reason the danger
• Considered to be in vain (because workers do not want to wear)
3. Procurement by the company
• Not in accordance with the existing hazard
• Originally bought (mainly choose the cheap)