What is WSH Case Studies
WSH Case Studies is a free resources for various groups from management and safety professionals to supervisors and workers for improving WSH practices .It offers insights to past accidents that have taken place in Singapore. The case studies not only provide lessons learnt for the industry, but more importantly, they remind us to actively review our current practices and continually find ways to make our workplaces safer. Readers are encouraged to carefully think through each case, review its relevancy and context to specific workplace situations, and incorporate the lessons learnt where appropriate.
Case Studies of Chemical Industry
Workplace safety and health (WSH) plays a key role in a chemical plant in achieving better productivity and good reputation. Hence, every chemical plant should be designed to be safe and easy to manage and operate. However, accidents can still occur due to other factors such as technical and engineering failures, human errors or management/procedural faults.
This booklet is divided into various sections according to type of incident for easy reference. The 5M (Mission, Man, Machine and Management, Medium) Model (see Appendix B) is used to analyse the contributing factors of each case. At the end of the booklet is a section on occupational health hazards. Unlike safety hazards, consequences posed by occupational health hazards may not be as obvious and immediate. Adverse health effects may be chronic in nature and can take a long time for the occupational disease to manifest. This section will show innovative approaches used in addressing exposure to occupational health hazards involving noise, ergonomics and chemicals.
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