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HEALTH and SAFETYA Brief Session on Awareness and Pakistan’s scenario

Pakistan Society

of Industrial

Engineers

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A brief intro

Name Usman Dawood Barry

Qualification Industrial Engineer from IoBM, Karachi

Professional Diploma in HSE from Skill Develo

Council

Professional Experience Assistant Manager @ S.K. Industries

Founder/CEO and Lead Trainer @ The OHS CoGuest Speaker on Safety at different Forums

Memberships Associate Member @ Fire Protection Associa

Pakistan (FPAP)

Member of Institute of Industrial Engineers (I


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About this session

• Create awareness about safety• Promote safety attitude and culture

• An insight to Pakistan’s scenario


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Occupational health & safety

• The practice of making the working environment as free as from conditions that can cause harm to personnel and prop


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Occupational health & safety

• Why it is important?• A safe environment is productive and efficient• Keeps all secured from unwanted mishaps

• Moral and ethical requirement

• It is your Constitutional Right• under article Article 37(e)


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Some basic OHS terminologies

• Accident• Hazard

• Incident/Mishap

• Risk


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Causes of incidents

• Unsafe conditions• Unsafe acts

• Act of Nature


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Fire & Fire Safety


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Fire

• What it is?• An energy releasing (exothermic) chemical reaction which is initiawhen appropriate amount of temperature, fuel and oxygen are prsame instant


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Why fire safety is important

• Fires cause 1% of the global burden of disease and 300,000 per year

• At the beginning of the 21st century, there were reported 7,to 8,000,000 fires annually with 70,000 to 80,000 fire death

500,000 to 800,000 fire injuries• Centre of Fire Statistics of CTIF, 2006


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• Other than life losses/injuries, there are economic damages• In U.S. alone, fire incidents cost $170 billion each year• OSHA statistics

• Equivalent to PKR 18,000 billion

• Indirect losses include• Psychological/traumas/emotional

• Insurance/repair

• Time lost

• Reputation/Legal


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General distribution of fire deaths globally


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Pakistan’s scenario

• The fire incidents kill 16,500 people and leave 164,000 injurdisabled every year across the country but the government adopt a National Fire Safety Policy to control the situation.

• The Nation newspaper, Sep 24 2012

• The country suffers an estimated loss of Rs400 billion every


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Rescue 1122 – some achievements

• Launched Community Awareness Programme in all districts Punjab, to educate the common citizens regarding fire safetytraining and basic life support skills

• Have responded to thousands of fire calls and saved lives &

worth billions of rupees


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Emergency Response #

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Fire Incidents between Year 2007 to Ju2010

http://www.hemmingfire.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1213/Causes_of_Fire_Emergencies_managed_by_Rescue_112


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Other common causes of Fires

• Careless cooking

• Use of ordinary extension cords

• Placement of electric heaters and open flame heaters too clcombustibles etc.

Leading causes of the reported fire


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Leading causes of the reported fireincidents

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Classes of Fires

• Class A• Caused by combustible solids like wood, paper & plastics

• Class B• Caused by flammable liquids and gases

• Flammable liquids like petrol, kerosene, alcohols, etc

• Flammable gases natural gas (methane), propane, butane, etc


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Classes of Fires [cont’d]

• Class C/E• Electrical Fires

• Class D

• Metal fire caused by combustible metals such as magnesium, pota• Not much common


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Classes of Fires [cont’d]

• Class K• Kitchen Fires

• Caused by cooking oils left unattended on burning stoves• NEVER use Water to extinguish

• Also caused by natural gas leakage


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Smoke

• Smoke occurs when there is incomplete combustion (notenough oxygen to burn the fuel completely)

• When incomplete combustion occurs, not everything is burn

• Smoke is a collection of these tiny unburned particles• Each particle is too small to see with your eyes, but when they com

you see them as smoke.


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Dangers of Smoke

• Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of death in victims offires

• Nearly 75% of home fire victims die because of the effects of the srather than the fire.

• Another danger is that smoke contains flammable compoun• With increased oxygen, these can ignite either through open flam

their own temperature. This leads to a backdraught or flashover e

• Smoke also obscures visibility• Many deaths occur because people (including firefighters) becom

disorientated in smoke and can’t find their way out of a building.


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How to Escape when there is Smok


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How to Escape when there is Smok


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Fire Extinguishers

• Work on the principle of removing/reducing one of the fire • Reducing the temperature

• Cutting off oxygen

• Neutralizing the fuel

• For different classes of fires, there are different types of fire

extinguishers


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Electrical Safety


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Respect Electricity

• Electricity is the scariest and most dangerous hazard within

moving at record defying speeds, not making a sound, and codorless.

• Overlooking basic electrical safety practices can lead to acciinjuries, fires, and even deaths.


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Some Common Electrical Incidents


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Electrical Safety Tips

• Maintain proper pest control to avoid rodent damage to ele

wiring and equipment• Ensure that your electrical appliance is first switched off, bef

unplugging it from the mains.

• When connecting or disconnecting the electrical appliance, plug instead of the cord to prevent damage to the cord, whiexpose you to live wires

• Do not Use a plug with cracks or signs of overheating (e.g.discoloration or charring)

• NEVER put out electrical fires with WATER


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Electrical shock consequences

• Typical symptoms include

• Unconsciousness

• Difficulties in breathing or no breathing at all

• A weak, erratic pulse or no pulse at all

• Burns, particularly entrance and exit burns (where the electricity eleft the body)

• Sudden onset of cardiac arrest.

What to do when someone gets ele


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What to do when someone gets eleshock• If a person is not able to remove himself/herself from the el

source, NEVER touch that person directly. Human body is goconductor of electricity and electricity will flow through the2nd person

• Firstly attempt to turn off the source of the electricity (discoswitch off, manually set off circuit breaker or mains, etc.

• If the electrical source can not readily and safely be turned onon-conducting object, such as a fibre glass object or a wooto remove the person from the electrical source


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Obsolete safety laws in Pakistan

• Factories Act 1934

• Factories Rule

• Hazardous Occupations Rule 1963

• Mines Act, 1923

• Workmen Compensation Act, 1923• Boilers and Pressure Vessels Ordinance, 2002


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