Identifying
and Controlling Hazards
Course 101
Safety Certified Supervisor Series
MODULE FIVE: CONTROLLING HAZARDS
Introduction
As you learned earlier, there are many different types of hazards in the workplace. Hazardous conditions include unsafe materials, equipment, environment and employees. Unsafe work practices include: allowing untrained workers to perform hazardous tasks, taking unsafe shortcuts, horseplay, or long work schedules. To combat these hazardous conditions and unsafe work practices, control strategies, called the "Hierarchy of Controls" have been developed.
The terminology for the different strategies varies in the literature, but generally, it describes three prioritized strategies: