Summary of Workshop Safety
Safety is freedom from danger. It is protection from risk of harm or injury.
A workshop is a building or area where technical and engineering work is carried out.
Workshop safety is protection from risk of harm or injury to humans or damage to machines and tools in the workshop.
Workshop accident can be defined as an unexpected event that can result in either injury or death to humans or to damage to an equipment in the workshop.
The basic causes of workshop accidents are unsafe conditions of machinery, equipment, or surroundings, and the unsafe actions of persons that are caused by ignorance or neglect of safety principles. Other causes of workshop accident were also discussed in this chapter.
Types of workshop accidents include Gas Leakage, Head injury, Electric shock, Cuts, Eye injury, Suffocation, Loss of hearing, Slip, Collision, etc.
Workshop safety devices are used to protect human beings and material things such as buildings, machines, hand gloves, helmets, safety goggles, safety boots, fire extinguishers, nose masks, sand buckets, etc.
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