PREPARED BY
Thelma B. Montebon
OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH & SAFETY IN
THE WORKPLACE
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Key takeaways:
Things to discuss:
What is Occupational Health & Safety?
RA 11058
Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace Safety is Important
3 Major Challenges Faced by Teachers Today
Ideas to Improve School Safety
How to Stay Safe during COVID 19
Safety Checklist
What is Occupational
Safety?
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Means by which to control aspects of work
production that involve any degree of risk
or danger that may cause injury or harm.
This process eliminates such elements to
ensure employee safety & health.
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RA 11058
The Occupational Safety and
Health Standards Act will
protect the health of workers in
the Philippines
With the RA 11058, employers are now required to
comply with occupational safety and health
standards including informing workers on all types
of hazards in the workplace and having the right to
refuse unsafe work, as well as providing facilities
and personal protective equipment for the workers,
among others.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace
Safety is Important
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Aware about the surroundings
There are many employees who doesn’t bother
about their surrounding hazards. But, it is
important to observe your co-employees working
circumstances. Once you get to know about the
particular hazards that occur at your workplace,
then it will help you in reducing the risk and allow
you to take the precautionary steps.
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Reduce workplace stress
Most of the employees are not fit and healthy
because of their busy schedule, which includes
long working hours, work pressure, and conflicts
that occur with co-workers or with the boss of the
organization. And, all these can lead to some
illness or depression for the employees. Also, this
not only affects their professional life but also
creates a nuisance in their personal lives too. So,
instead of waiting to get unfit, it is better that you
start taking care of your health, by taking regular
breaks, sit in an appropriate posture with an
appropriate diet. It will be better for you to
schedule your work accordingly and manage the
things to reduce your workplace stress.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace
Safety is Important
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Use tools appropriately
Take appropriate precautions while using
machinery or any other tool, instead of taking any
shortcuts. Taking shortcuts is one of the biggest
reason behind workplace loss. It’s a biggest safety
risk to use scaffolding as a ladder or one tool
instead of another for a particular job. So, it is
always recommended to use the correct tools and
reduce the opportunity of workplace injury.
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Keep crisis exits which are easily
accessible
In case there is an emergency, you will need quick
access to the exits. It is also advised to keep clear
usage of equipment shutoffs which might stop you
from performing at emergency.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace
Safety is Important
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Update Your Supervisor about
the unsafe conditions
It is important that you keep updating your
supervisor about the hazards or risks occur at
workplace. They should be legally obligated to
ensure that their employees are working a safe
environment or not. And, in case, if the employees
are not working in safe conditions, then it is the
responsibility of the supervisor to listen and
understand their condition and create safe working
environment for employees.
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Use technological assistance
Whenever you want to record any data or keep
track of any safety concerns it is important to use
the available free technology at hand. So, make
sure that use the appropriate tools for not harming
yourself.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace
Safety is Important
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Stay Alert
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Reduce Workplace Environment
Stress
There are many employees who usually
Stress to any employee or to any co-worker, can
compromise or ignore the alerts of advance
warning and due to this, a number of workplace
injuries or fatalities occur.
lead into depression and into concentration
problems. And the main reason includes, extended
working hours, excess of work, insecurity of job
and issues which occur at co-workers or
professionals. So, instead of taking stress on your
shoulders, you should discuss it with your
supervisor and ask him/her to look after your
problems which you are facing in the organization.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Workplace
Safety is Important
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Wear the right safety equipment’s
It is essential that you wear the right protection
equipment tools during your work. And, the
equipment’s can be in any form like, earplugs,
earmuffs, hard hats, gloves, full-face masks,
safety gloves and any other equipment which is
required to wear while working. These tools will
prevent the workers from the incidents that occur
at workplace.
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Sit in a proper posture
If have a sitting job, then it is essential than keep
your posture correct, while working on a desk. You
need to keep your shoulders in line and straight
back to avoid any spine problem. Try to ignore
stooping and twisting regularly and if possible,
then try to use the comfort designed furniture and
the safety equipment’s, so that the desired things
will be in your reach.
3 Major Challenges Faced by
Teachers Today
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Balancing the
different learning
needs of students
Respecting
expectations from
school admins
Helping parents and
students meet longterm goals
Every student who walks through
Not only do teachers have to ensure
Many of my students don’t
my door is different.
that each student in class is
understand the value of education
learning and engaged, we also
because they have never seen the
have to make sure that we are in
benefits education can offer them.
line with the goals of the school.
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Ideas to Improve School
Safety
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Practice your
communication
Involve parents in school
operations.
Make students part of
the team
Vary your Emergency
Drills
Use technology
Timely and accurate information
During an emergency, parents play a
Not only are they a source of information
Scheduling and other concerns make it difficult
Everyone has access to technology. It is an
given to as many members as
crucial role. The last responsibility (and
and ideas, giving them agency is a
to practice responses to different emergencies.
effective method to receive notification of
possible within the school community
the most important one) we have is to get
valuable component of your readiness.
will allow quick reactions to an
students home safely. Directions on what
incident.
parents should do during a crisis you are
Empower students to actively participate
them to introduce new factors is a good
navigating can make a big difference.
in as many aspects of emergency
opportunity. Include alternate evacuation routes
response as possible such as reporting
(you might try “blocking off” a commonly used
A good opportunity to practice is
emergency situations and what to do.
As fire drills are always on the calendar using
before, during, and after emergency
Hold meetings and send out information
possible dangers, helping during the
exit path), using other assembly areas, having
drills.
to parents on what procedures they
response, and keeping their parents
the drill at different times of day (perhaps lunch
should follow. Another tactic is to do this
calm!
or class transitions), first aid, and search and
as part of your drills in the pre, during,
and sending messages to parents.
rescue training.
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Ideas to Improve School
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Know your
campus.
Have a plan for nonschool day activities
Research
Allot time for emergency
plans and concerns during
staff meetings.
Assign specific emergency
responsibilities to staff.
Be sure to locate gas, water,
Field trips, sports, extended care, and
Seek out tips and information on new
This provides an opportunity to reinforce
Splitting up important tasks to individuals will
electrical, and other hazardous
other campus events are times when
technologies, changing procedures, and
procedures, identify gaps, and address new
speed up your school’s response time.
things.
emergencies can happen and cause
ideas that will help make your school
issues.
Duties such as turning off utilities, taking roll
serious chaos.
better prepared.
Always have keys to your classrooms
and caring for students, providing first aid
The faculty and staff are your eyes and ears on
treatment, contacting outside resources and
and emergency places. Just as
Make sure to include procedures and
Safety is a battle that is won through
the ground, and they absolutely know where
monitoring information are just a few
importantly, know who carries the
practices that cover these.
preparation.
your school’s weaknesses are. A good baseline
procedures that can be made more efficient
is to have at least 2-3 hours (in faculty and staff
with dedicated roles.
keys.
meetings or in-service days) per year dedicated
What would you do if they weren’t
to emergency response. This doesn't sound
there in an emergency? Inspect
like much, but if used correctly, it's effective.
emergency supplies for serviceability
During years where you're starting from scratch
and expiration.
or adding new layers, you'll need at least
double that.
How to Stay Safe during COVID 19
as a Teacher
BE SMART
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SCHOOL SAFETY CHECKLIST
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“Safety isn’t expensive, it’s
priceless.”
- Author Unknown
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Let's all
be SAFE
THANK
YOU