Industrial Safety

There is nothing more important than the safety of the workers. Everything must take a back seat when the integrity of the people working there is compromised.

Safety applied to the industrial sector involves the joint use of multiple disciplines that are responsible for minimizing risks in the industry. It is based on the premise that all complex and industrial activity involves dangers inherent in industrial techniques and processes that must be properly managed to minimize them.

We can divide the main risks of industrial activity into two main categories:

1. Endogenous risks. These are risks linked to internal accidents inherent in the activity carried out by the worker, whether manual or operational.
2. Exogenous risks. Risks that have to do with the context in which it is developed, the important environmental impact that entails the industry and the devastation of the resources.

Some internal factors

1. Lack of or poor training for workers. Worker training is a key factor that has the potential to significantly reduce occupational risk.
2. Lack or poor implementation of administrative or engineering controls.
3. Lack or poor use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Some external factors

1. Environmental safety. The companies and industries must comply with the national or provincial legislation that determines the procedures and techniques that can be applied in order to reduce the environmental impact.
2. Deficient use of statistics that allow to warn which are the sectors in which accidents usually occur with the objective to accentuate the precautions.