ASSIGNMENT 1:  OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE CASE STUDY

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Objective:
 

Closely examine the picture below and critically evaluate the working situation/conditions for occupational health risks.

 

Specifically, indicate:

 

  1. What you find wrong with the working situation/conditions

  2. Systematically describe the hazards using the occupational hazard matrix approach to rate the hazards by priority

  3. Take your top priority hazard and discuss your interpretation of the legal requirements pertaining to  the working situation/conditions depicted.  List the main Acts and Regulations that apply and provide a short explanation (a sentence or two) for each one listed.

  4. Provide a structured list of recommendations for how to proceed in making the working situation/conditions safer.

 

 

 

Working situation/conditions:   

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  Addtional facts:

  • the ladder is resting on the ground

  • these workers are from a property maintenance company employing 60 workers that looks after this block of flats.

Hand in by Monday July 28th

  

Evaluation: 

 

This assignment will be one of 3 for the block and will be marked out of 100.

Late hand-ins will be marked out of 50

All hand ins must be in hard copy as well as ecopy

 

 

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