704 Hazard Analysis and Control

Basic Concepts

Introduction

The goal of the hazard identification and control program is to make the workplace and its operations as safe as possible and to keep employees from being harmed. It is an ongoing program that is actually never finished.

If you are involved in developing a system to identify and control hazards:

1. Carefully plan and design interrelated processes and procedures.
2. Implement and carefully watch the system perform.
3. Revise and improve preventive measures and controls as your worksite changes and as your store of hazard information grows.

If you are going to be effective in protecting employees from workplace hazards, obviously you must first understand just what those hazards are.

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