Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v4 - SHS 3
Safety, Quality and the Environment
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Safety, Quality and the Environment
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Subject: Manufacturing Engineering
Class: SHS 3
Term: 1st Term
Week: 12
Grade code: 1.3.3.LI.2
Strand code: 3
Sub-strand code: 3
Content standard code: 1.3.3.CS.1
Indicator code: 1.3.3.LI.2
Theme: Manufacturing Tools, Equipment and Processes
Subtheme: Safety, Quality and the Environment
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This lesson introduces the fundamental principles of workplace safety within a manufacturing context. In Ghana, from the bustling workshops of Suame Magazine in Kumasi to the large factories in the Tema industrial area, ensuring a safe working environment is crucial. Accidents not only cause personal injury and suffering but also lead to loss of productivity, damage to expensive equipment, and financial hardship for families. By understanding and following general safety practices, we can create a culture of safety that protects ourselves, our colleagues, and our communities, making our industries more efficient and sustainable.
A. Fundamental Safety Terminology
To understand safety, we must first agree on what key terms mean. Safety: The state of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. In the workplace, it is the control of recognised hazards to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Hazard: A potential source of harm or adverse health effect on a person or persons. A hazard is something that *can* cause harm. *Ghanaian Example:* A trailing electrical cable across a busy walkway in a tailor's shop is a hazard. Risk: The chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard. It considers both the likelihood of the event and the severity of the potential harm. *Ghanaian Example:* The risk associated with the trailing cable is that someone might trip, fall, and break a bone. The risk is high because the walkway is busy. Accident: An unplanned, unwanted event that results in injury, illness, or damage to property or the environment. *Ghanaian Example:* A student in the school's metalwork shop getting a piece of metal in their eye because they weren't wearing goggles is an accident.
Key Relationship: We identify hazards to assess the risk they pose, so we can implement safety measures to prevent accidents. B. Categories of General Safety Practices
General safety practices can be grouped into several key areas. A safe worker understands and applies all of them. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)