Warnings
Warnings may be visual, audible, or both. They may also be tactile.
- Visual warnings you can see - include signs, labels, tags, and lights.
- Audible warnings you can hear -include alarms, bells, beepers, sirens, horns and announcement systems.
- Tactile warnings you can feel - may include vibration devices or air fans.
Work Practice Controls
Work Practice Controls include the development and deployment of safety procedures and employee practices.
Safe Chemical Handling
Ultimately, effective work practice controls will successfully control the employee behaviors that result in most workplace accidents. Examples of laboratory work practice controls include:
- Developing chemical hygiene safe procedures, and
- Developing standard operating procedures for chemical handling.
Work practice controls are only as effective as the safety management system that supports them. It's always better to eliminate the hazard so that you don't have to rely on employee compliance.
To make sure these controls are effective in the long term, they must be designed from a base of solid hazard analysis and sustained by a supportive safety culture. They then must be accompanied by adequate resources, training, supervision, and appropriate consequences. Remember, work practice controls should be used in conjunction with other controls.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
3-7. Which of the following types of hazard warnings include signs, labels, tags, and lights?
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