Maintenance activities are among activities at work that can affect the safety and health of workers, both operators and those involved in maintenance operations of work equipment in use. Lack of maintenance can lead to a temporary or total stop of the production process, which means loss of production, as well as a high risk for the workers involved. Employers who do not maintain or use, at a high safety level, the work equipment may produce major accidents at work. Taking into account the multitude of hazards and risks associated with maintenance and/or lack of maintenance, it is necessary to include it in the management system of the company by managing the maintenance activities of work equipment in use. The paper aims to develop a software model that allows efficient management of maintenance activities of work equipment as a tool to control occupational risks at company level. The software model is intended to provide real-time control of work equipment in use, through a risk analysis in terms of the history of the adjustment, maintenance, repairing and cleaning, including situations arising after the events, overhaul repairs and upgrades.
Earthing and short-circuit devices are part of the category of equipment and means of electric shock protection, and their purpose is to protect workers in the event of an accidental voltage in the work area while doing electrical installation work. The purpose of this study is to convey the findings of research into the level of safety that these devices must provide, not only in terms of electrodynamic and electro thermal consequences that occur during a short-circuit, but also in terms of mechanical, chemical, and environmental aspects. The study's risk analysis of safety performance provides critical information for earthing and shortcircuiting device manufacturers to ensure the safety function throughout their use, as well as for workers to pick, use, and maintain.
An accident at work is a violent body injury and occupational acute poisoning that occur during the working process or in the performance of work and causing temporary work incapacity of at least 3 days, disability or death. The accidents at work can lead to suffering, disability and in the worst case can cause death, and affect the lives of workers, both at work and in the family. Quantifying the cost of an event that can be declared as working accident or occupational disease, may be done if are identified all the generated factors and their consequences are estimated. But it is extremely difficult to quantify the costs of victim suffering, of family, stress, self-confidence etc. The identification of risk factors, analysis and elimination or reduction of these factors, allow estimating the cost of working accidents, being a tool for improving health and safety at work. This tool brings as benefit for businesses, a better labor market and a safer and healthier working environment for workers through taken prevention and safety measures and to reduce accidents and occupational diseases. The case study report prepared under national legislation is based on real data and compares the cost of an accident resulting in death from electrocution and cost of occupational safety, respectively the protective measures that have been taken. Analyzing the work accident costs, it is found that the firm, the victim's family and the Romanian state organizations record significant losses (tens of thousands of dollars), losses that could have been invested.
The paper is focused on a research project aiming to provide conditions for market competitiveness of producers and to guarantee the free movement of Romanian products on the EU. This is done by guaranteeing essential health and safety requirements applicable to work equipment in order to implement policies set out in the strategy EUROPE 2020. This strategy takes into account the priority of: favourable growth of inclusion-promoting an economy with a high rate of employment, ensuring social and territorial cohesion. The research aims to improve working conditions and ensure OSH for workers operating in the sectors of the national economy through the use of work equipment compliant and safety through occupational risks of injury and occupational disease identified in these types of equipment in order to increase the support for SMEs to achieve prevention and safety activities. The research results consist in promoting some occupational risk prevention tools developed for SMEs, in order to guarantee the required design and manufacturing work equipment used in wood processing industries, activities which, at workplaces, may affect the health and safety of workers, both those who use the work equipment and those directly involved.
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