Saturday 5 May 2012

EHSQ -AWARNESS FROM 25 APRIL 2012 TO 5 MAY 2012

I. Introduction

What is occupational health and safety?

Occupational health and safety is a discipline with a broad scope involving many specialized fields. In its broadest sense, it should aim at:

the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of adverse effects on health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the placing and maintenance of workers in an occupational environment adapted to physical and mental needs; the adaptation of work to humans.

I. Introduction

Not all sound is noise — noise is sound that people do not like. Noise can be annoying and it can interfere with your ability to work by causing stress and disturbing your concentration. Noise can cause accidents by interfering with communication and warning signals. Noise can cause chronic health problems. Noise can also cause you to lose your hearing.

Hearing loss from exposure to noise in the workplace is one of the most common of all industrial diseases.

Introduction

How does the body fight hazards?

The human body has natural defence systems which help to protect you against many hazards (dangers). These defence systems also help the body to heal (repair) itself when it gets injured or sick. However, there are hazards — arising from bacteria, viruses, chemicals, dusts, vapours, noise, extreme temperatures, work processes, etc.

International labour standards evolve from a growing international concern that action needs to be taken on a particular issue, for example providing working women with maternity protection, or ensuring safe working conditions for agricultural workers. Developing international labour standards at the ILO is a unique legislative process involving representatives of governments, workers and employers from around the world.

Promoting safety and health in a green economy

The report highlights occupational safety and health (OSH) as an integral part of the promotion of green jobs and a greener economy to achieve an economic and social development that is also environmentally sustainable.

SHIMLA: The green bench of the Himachal Pradesh high court slapped a fine of Rs 100 crore on Jaiprakash Associates on Friday for setting up a cement plant fraudulently. The court quashed the environmental clearance granted to the company's thermal plant and directed that it be dismantled within three months. It also called for a special investigation team to be set up to see if state officials were involved.

Women’s health

Key facts

On average, women live six to eight years longer than men globally. In 2007, women's life expectancy at birth was more than 80 years in 35 countries, but only 54 years in the WHO African Region. Girls are far more likely than boys to suffer sexual abuse. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among adolescent girls in high- and middle-income countries. Essentially all (99%) of the half a million maternal deaths every year occur in developing countries.

The right to health

The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without the distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.

- WHO Constitution

The right to health means that governments must generate conditions in which everyone can be as healthy as possible.

Key facts

Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is a bacterium that can cause severe foodborne disease. Primary sources of EHEC outbreaks are raw or undercooked ground meat products, raw milk and faecal contamination of vegetables. In most cases, the illness is self-limiting, but it may lead to a life-threatening disease including haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), especially in young children and the elderly. EHEC is heat-sensitive.

Key facts

Climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. The global warming that has occurred since the 1970s was causing over 140 000 excess deaths annually by the year 2004. Many of the major killers such as diarrhoeal diseases, malnutrition, malaria and dengue are highly climate-sensitive and are expected to worsen as the climate changes.

Key facts

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and leaky stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal. Nearly 2 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to indoor air pollution from household solid fuel use. Nearly 50% of pneumonia deaths among children under five are due to particulate matter inhaled from indoor air pollution.

These strange plants are found all over the world. Insect eating plants develop and grow in much the same way that other plants develop. They require air, water, and sunshine in order to be healthy. However, they also need certain minerals, especially nitrogen. Most plants get their nitrogen from the soil in which they grow. But insect devouring plants are unable to do this. They grow in warm, marshy places that contains very little nitrogen.

Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. By reducing air pollution levels, we can help countries reduce the global burden of disease from respiratory infections, heart disease, and lung cancer. The lower the levels of air pollution in a city, the better respiratory (both long- and short-term), and cardiovascular health of the population will be. Indoor air pollution is estimated to cause approximately 2 million premature deaths mostly in developing countries.

Millions of women and men around the world are denied access to jobs and training, receive low wages, or are restricted to certain occupations simply on the basis of their sex, skin colour, ethnicity or beliefs, without regard to their capabilities and skills. In a number of developed countries, for example, women workers earn up to 25% less than male colleagues performing equal work.

Hundreds of millions of people suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Discrimination stifles opportunities, wasting the human talent needed for economic progress, and accentuates social tensions and inequalities. Combating discrimination is an essential part of promoting decent work, and success on this front is felt well beyond the workplace.

In his message for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, celebrated 28 April of each year, the ILO Director General reiterated the need to focus on the promotion of safer and healthier workplaces in the transition to a greener economy.

Statement | 25 April 2012

On this World Day for Safety and Health at Work it is timely to focus on the opportunity to promote safer and healthier workplaces as part of decent work strategies in the transition to a greener economy.

On this year's World Day for Health and Safety at Work, 28 April, WHO joins the International Labour Organization in calling for concerted global action to promote occupational safety and health in a "green economy" - one of the themes of the upcoming RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, 20-22 June. Ensuring workers' health is an essential prerequisite for sustainable development.

A confined space is defined as a place

that is partially or fully enclosed that is not both designed and constructed for continuous human occupancy, and where atmospheric hazards may occur because of its construction, location, or contents, or because of work that is done in it. All three criteria have to be met before a space is defined as a confined space.

Hazards in confined spaces can be categorized as either physical hazards or atmospheric hazards.

as per the study of Ontario

n Ontario, motor vehicle collisions are one of the leading causes of workers' injuries and fatalities. On an average day in Ontario, motor vehicle collisions will kill more than two people and injure more than 180 others, making motor vehicle incidents (MVIs) the biggest risk Ontarians face each day they go to work.

Some facts and figures about Nature

Ecotourism is the fastest-growing area of the tourism industry. In 2004, this market grew three times faster than the industry as a whole.  Wetlands store 20% of the Earth’s carbon. Londoners consume of 72,000 tonnes of fish each year, much of it from the North Sea but also from the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The planet is warming, from North Pole to South Pole, and everywhere in between. Globally, the mercury is already up more than 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius), and even more in sensitive polar regions. And the effects of rising temperatures aren’t waiting for some far-flung future. They’re happening right now. Signs are appearing all over, and some of them are surprising.

Facts and figures

State of play

The power of nature

The economic costs

Wildlife impacts

Oceans overwhelmed

Facts and figures on biodiversity

Discover more about biodiversity and its impact on our lives.

Species - our food and medecine

While most people depend mainly on domesticated species for their dietary needs, some 200 million depend on wild species for at least part of their food. More than 60 wild species have been used to improve the world’s 13 major crops by providing genes for pest resistance, improved yield, and enhanced nutrition.

Mango is a tropical tree cultivated in many regions of India and now distributed wide across the world in many continents. Usually, fruits grow at the end of a long, string like stem, with sometimes more than one fruit to a stem.

Each fruit measures 5 to 15 cm in length and about 4 to 10 cm in width, and has typical “mango” shape, or sometimes oval or round. Its weight ranges from 150 gm to around 750 gm.

The new rules on e-waste that have come into effect from May 1 can be seen as the first step towards reducing pollution of the information era. The E-Waste (Management and Handling) Rule, 2011 were notified on May 30, 2011 by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), which set May 1, 2012 as the date for implementation.

Food security

All people at all times have access at an affordable price to the basic food they need to meet their energy requirements.

Nutrition security

Nutrition security means that every individual has access to a balanced diet that includes all essential nutrients (e.g. proteins/amino acids, vitamins, nutritive trace elements). Nutrition security cannot be achieved without first having food security.

very very thanks to Dr. Kavita Y. Suchak. (Ph. D)

Many grandiose visions have been developed to depict how humans have shaped destiny in the new century that is fast approaching. These visions are based on scenario involving highly sophisticated breakthrough with vast potentials – colonies in space, robot operated plants, computers that match human intelligence and so on.

Gandhi And Deep Ecology

By Thomas Weber

The central importance of Gandhi to nonviolent activism is widely acknowledged. There are also other significant peace-related bodies of knowledge that have gained such popularity in the West in the relatively recent past that they have changed the directions of thought and have been important in encouraging social movements - yet they have not been analysed in terms of antecedents, especially Gandhian ones.

“Hepatitis C is rapidly spreading among young garbage pickers/scavengers, as they pick up used syringes and other clinical waste from different public/private hospitals of the city for recycling…” This story carried in “The News International”, a Karachi newspaper in December, 2007 quoted an official as saying that most hospitals in the city were not disposing of their infectious waste properly.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Saturday 28 April 2012

GENEVA (28 April 2012) – UN Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu warned that millions of workers around the world are still exposed to disease and injury in their places of work, and called on countries’ attention to promoting and creating a safe working environment to reduce the number of work-related deaths each year.

[The Background Papers reflect the views of the authors and not of UNEP or OHCHR]

Human Rights and Environment Issues in Multilateral Treaties

Adopted between 1991 and 2001

Professor Dinah Shelton University of Notre Dame

Introduction 

Principle 1 of the Stockholm Declaration established a foundation for linking human rights and environmental protection, declaring that man has a fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that perm

The many linkages between protection of human rights and protection of the environment have long been recognized.

Adequate Housing

Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context

Toolkit on the right to adequate housing

Business and Human Rights

Business and Human Rights

Children

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

OHCHR Study on children working and/or living on the street

Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

United Nations Study on Vio

What are human rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.

COMPLY WITH EVER-CHANGING REGULATIONS – WITH CONFIDENCE

The environmental compliance functionality of the SAP EHS Management application can help you cost-effectively ensure full compliance with growing and changing environmental regulations across all regions, at both the plant and corporate levels.

Track, measure and monitor emissions and pollutant discharges by plant, equipment or production process. Implement compliance processes with workflow to fulfill requirements and manage permits.

ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT

DRIVE EHS RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

The SAP Environment, Health & Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application supports your sustainability initiatives – enabling you to holistically manage EHS operational, financial, and reporting risks across your facilities and extended business network.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

The residence time gives us an idea of how long it takes for an air contaminant to be removed from the atmosphere. For example, the residence times of carbon dioxide and carbon mono-oxide are 15 years and 65 days respectively. Carbon monoxide is quite reactive, while CO2  is much more stable.

There are two methods involved in the cleansing of the atmosphere:

In the atmosphere, rain, snow, and dew tend to wash smoke, dust, pollen, and gaseous waste products.

Local authorities in western Assam's Dhubri town fear the death toll in Monday's boat mishap on river Brahmaputra may cross the 200 mark. The ill-fated double-decker boat had a carrying capacity of 250 passengers but reportedly had some 500 on board.

The official body count,

however, stood at 45 till 8am on Tuesday.

Hi Amar,

Thank you for the introduction to your blog and for sharing the vision of love with us!

Love, light and peace,

Harold W. Becker

President and Founder

The Love Foundation, Inc.

www.thelovefoundation.com

“Inspiring People to Love Unconditionally”

Think: Global Love Day

Feel: Love Begins With Me

Remember: May 1, 2012

The Day

It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion.

NEW DELHI: The rise in sea level by 1.29 millimetre every year along the Indian coastline has not caused any major erosion, science and technology and earth sciences minister Vilasrao Deshmukh informed the Rajya Sabha today.

He said during Question Hour that the ministry of environment was conducting a study on the impact of the rising sea levels.

NEW DELHI: The fight against climate change will take a strategic jump in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-2017) with the government intending to plough in almost Rs 2 lakh crore through the various missions, the working group on climate of the 12th Five-Year Plan has said.

The report seeks setting up of a dedicated structure of governance to oversee the different programmes under the 12th Plan with such large funds to be invested.

Grades K-2

Real World Safety Pledge

I will check first with my parents, guardians, or other trusted adults before going anywhere, helping anyone, accepting anything, getting into a car, or leaving with anyone. I will take a friend with me when going places or playing outside. I will tell people "NO" if they try to touch me or do things in ways that make me feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused, because it's OK for me to stand up for myself.

A.1    HAZARD IDENTIFICATION, RISK ASSESSMENT & CONTROL WORKSHEET

Relevant Standards/ Codes,if any____________________________________________________________________________

Completed By: __________________________________________________________________________________ Date:_____

Reviewed By: __________________________________________________________________________________ Date:_____

Likelihood includes Probability of Hazardous Event Occurring / may occur.

IDLH GUIDE

Promote Safet

and Protection

EAR PROTECTION

-9000 is the name for the Quality System Requirements used to increase customer confidence in the quality of its suppliers.

The idea of QS-9000 is quite similar to ISO-9000, International Quality System Standard, but QS-9000 applies particularly to the automotive industry for Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and truck manufacturers.

SPECTROPHOTOMETER THEORY

A spectrophotometer is an instrument that measures the quantity of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through a sample as a function of wavelength. We will use the term intensity for quantity. Depending upon which model (particle or wave) of light is used, intensity is related to the density of photons in the beam or to the amplitude of the light wave.

A lot of confusion exists on the differences between an Environmental Management System Audit and a Compliance Audit. An Environmental Management System, ( an EMS) ensures that environmental issues are systematically identified, controlled, and monitored. It provides a mechanism for responding to changing environmental conditions and requirements reporting on environmental performance, and reinforcing continual improvement.

In India, diversity exists in the quality and quantity of natural resources and their distribution with respect to time and space. For example, India hosts 15% of the animal population, which, apart from supplying milk and draught power in agricultural operations, contributes valuable plant nutrients as supplement to the fertilizer nutrients. Indian cattle, however, have different genetic make up compared to the those in developed countries.

It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. We honor each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and call upon all people and all nations to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love.

Global Love Day is the universal recognition of our innate oneness through love.  When we come from this limitless love we naturally and easily embrace ourselves and our fellow humanity.

Agriculture Research Data Book  – 2002

List of identified drought prone districts

Source :     1.     Central Water Commission ( N.W.P. Directorate)

2.        Compendium of Environment Statistics, 1999, Central Statistical

Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation , Govt. of India.

Vision

Sustainable management of natural resources for achieving food, nutritional, environmental and livelihood security in the country.

Purpose

The purpose of our Job Hazard Analysis is to identify, control or eliminate potential or actual dangers in a job or task.

Jobsite Inspection Checklist

After Bhopal disaster, the next remarkable disaster took place at Chemobyl Nuclear Power Station in the Soviet Union on 26-4-1986 and the losses reported are as under.

The accident led to 31 deaths and 203 have suffered various degrees of radiation sickness. 14 were in hospital with 80 to 90 per cent burns due to radiation. The 1,35,0100 people around Chemobyl who were evacuated to safer sites would be monitored for radiation effects.

All the 25 major causes of this accident stated above in (A) and (B) suggest the remedial measures. To avoid repetition, all these contributing causes should be removed first and necessary steps should be taken to run the plant always safe and sound, with all the safety devices properly working.  The working conditions must be improved and unsafe actions must be removed by proper policy, training and education.

Unsafe Actions:

1.         The leak was not attended as soon as it was reported. Initial time passed in tea break.

2.         The first information of five-fold pressure rise was dismissed in the belief that the pressure gauge could be faulty.

3.         A newly recruited supervisor had asked a novice operator to clean a pipe and the blind disc was not inserted while doing so.

4.         The public siren was put on around 1 am.

From the published press reports they seem to be:

1.         The refrigeration system to keep the gas cool was closed since long.

2.         The vent gas scrubber was underdesigned, not repaired and not connected.

3.         The corroded flare tower pipe not replaced and not connected.

4.         The water curtain jests were underdesigned to reach the maximum height.

5.         All the three tanks were filled in while one ought to have kept empty to use as emergency bypass.

6.

BHOPAL GAS DISASTER

It was the night of 2nd December 1984 when the night shift staff of the Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, took a round at @ II pm. There were three double walled, partly buried S.S. tanks (No. 610, 611 and 619) each of 60 tonne capacity and all containing the poisonous gas MIC (Methyl isocyanate) to be used to produce a deadly pesticide Carbaryl. At @ 11-30 pm. workers in the plant realised that there was a MIC leak some where : their eyes began to tear.

Fly on Nonstop Routings

Most accidents occur during the takeoff, climb, descent, and landing phase of flight so flying nonstop would reduce exposure to these most accident prone phases of flight.

Choose Larger Aircraft

Currently, aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats were all designed and certified under the strictest regulations. Also, in the unlikely event of a serious accident, larger aircraft provide a better opportunity for passenger survival.

1) Introduction :-

Every year several people are killed or seriously injured by collapses and falling materials while working in excavations. They are at risk from:

(a) Excavations collapsing and burying or injuring people working in them;

(b) Material falling from the sides into any excavation; and

(c) People or plant falling into excavations…etc.

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