MT 482 – INDUSTRIAL
SAFETY
KTU – CIVIL ENGINEERING
, MODULE -1
INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
Industrial Safety:
Industrial Safety is Primarily a management activity which is
concerned with reducing,controlling and eliminating hazards
from the industries or industrial units.
Goals Of Safety Engineering:
The purpose of safety engineering is to control risk by
reducing or completely eliminating it.
The goal of the safety engineering is to prevent/mitigate
failures (Risk Management) in a system that might be
harmful to its users.
,It also aims to reduce the rate of failures and if failure does occur, i
not life threatening.
Need For Safety:
For the safety of people in their workplaces .
For protecting the environment against damage from industrial
accidents.
For protecting businesses against serious losses from damage to p
and machinery .
For eliminating accidents causing work stoppage and production lo
For creating awareness of the good practices available for the deliv
of effective safety instrumented systems.
For providing basic training in well-established techniques for
engineering of safety systems.
For assisting engineers and technicians to support and participate
the safety systems activities at their work with good background
knowledge of the subject.
, Objectives Of Industrial Safety:
Industrial safety is needed to check all the possible chances of
accidents for preventing loss of life and permanent disability of an
industrial employee, any damage to machine and material.
It is needed to eliminate accidents causing work stoppage and
production loss.
It is needed to reduce workman’s compensation, insurance rate,
the cost of accidents.
It is needed to achieve better morale among industrial employees
It is needed to increase production means to a higher standard of
It is needed to prevent accidents in the industry by reducing any
hazards.
Definition Of Accident:
o An Accident is an unplanned and un-controlled event happened re
in injury.
o Industrial Accident is an occurence in industrial premises causing
Physical Injury to an employee which make him unfit to resume h
duties in next 48 hours.
o In other words, accident is an unexpected event in the course of
SAFETY
KTU – CIVIL ENGINEERING
, MODULE -1
INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
Industrial Safety:
Industrial Safety is Primarily a management activity which is
concerned with reducing,controlling and eliminating hazards
from the industries or industrial units.
Goals Of Safety Engineering:
The purpose of safety engineering is to control risk by
reducing or completely eliminating it.
The goal of the safety engineering is to prevent/mitigate
failures (Risk Management) in a system that might be
harmful to its users.
,It also aims to reduce the rate of failures and if failure does occur, i
not life threatening.
Need For Safety:
For the safety of people in their workplaces .
For protecting the environment against damage from industrial
accidents.
For protecting businesses against serious losses from damage to p
and machinery .
For eliminating accidents causing work stoppage and production lo
For creating awareness of the good practices available for the deliv
of effective safety instrumented systems.
For providing basic training in well-established techniques for
engineering of safety systems.
For assisting engineers and technicians to support and participate
the safety systems activities at their work with good background
knowledge of the subject.
, Objectives Of Industrial Safety:
Industrial safety is needed to check all the possible chances of
accidents for preventing loss of life and permanent disability of an
industrial employee, any damage to machine and material.
It is needed to eliminate accidents causing work stoppage and
production loss.
It is needed to reduce workman’s compensation, insurance rate,
the cost of accidents.
It is needed to achieve better morale among industrial employees
It is needed to increase production means to a higher standard of
It is needed to prevent accidents in the industry by reducing any
hazards.
Definition Of Accident:
o An Accident is an unplanned and un-controlled event happened re
in injury.
o Industrial Accident is an occurence in industrial premises causing
Physical Injury to an employee which make him unfit to resume h
duties in next 48 hours.
o In other words, accident is an unexpected event in the course of
