Unexpected incident
What Is an Incident?
Feb
An incident is an unwanted situation, challenge, or problem that people face in life. These can be sudden difficulties, obstacles, or even failures. However, incidents also bring opportunities to learn, grow, and find creative solutions to overcome difficulties.
I. What is an Incident?
An Incident is a concept describing unexpected and unwanted situations that occur during the labor process. These are sudden events that often carry risks, causing injury or even death to workers while they are performing their work or work-related activities. Incidents can occur in all industries, from manufacturing, construction, transportation to services and many other fields.
Incident situations are not only limited to working hours and the workplace, but can also occur outside of working hours, outside the workplace when the employee performs work as required by the employer, or even on the way to and from home to the workplace.
To deal with Incidents and ensure safety for workers, businesses need to establish labor protection measures, strengthen occupational safety training, and implement occupational safety regulations and procedures to minimize risks.
II. The Impacts That Incidents Bring
Incidents in the workplace have major impacts on workers and businesses. First, the health impact is undeniable, with the risk of injury and even death in serious cases. In addition, incidents also create great mental and psychological pressure for workers, affecting their quality of life and ability to work.
For businesses, incidents can cause loss of human resources and assets, while also affecting the company’s reputation and image. Legal and financial consequences from incident-related issues can also pose significant challenges for businesses.
To minimize these negative impacts, implementing safety measures, training employees on occupational safety, and building a safe working environment become extremely important. This not only protects the health and lives of workers but also helps businesses maintain stable operations and sustainable development.
III. Common types of incidents
There are many common types of incidents in the workplace, especially in industries that require high attention and safety management. Some of these types of incidents include machinery accidents, fires and explosions, risk of injury from falling objects, and even workplace contamination.
Machinery accidents frequently occur in manufacturing and construction companies, and can lead to severe consequences for workers. Fires and explosions can occur in workplaces that use flammable materials or have a high risk of explosion, requiring special attention to preventive measures.
The risk of injury from falling objects can appear anywhere, from construction sites to offices. This requires strict adherence to safety rules and the use of personal protective equipment. Workplace contamination, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, is also an issue that needs to be addressed and controlled.
By recognizing and addressing these types of incidents, businesses can build a safe working environment and minimize risks for workers.
IV. Learning and planning prevention from incidents
Learning from incidents is an important part of the occupational safety management process. By analyzing bad situations that occur, businesses can become aware of potential hazards and the reasons leading to incidents. This creates an opportunity to develop prevention plans and improve the occupational safety system.
Learning from incidents not only helps raise workers’ safety awareness but also lays the foundation for building a safe working environment. Management and staff need to proactively contribute ideas and information to better understand the impacts of incidents and how to prevent them.
Planning prevention requires focusing on weaknesses and improving the risk control system. This way, businesses can predict and prevent incidents that may occur in the future, protecting both their employees and their assets.
V. How do incidents affect the victim’s psychology?
Incidents not only have physical effects but also have major impacts on the victim’s psychology. People who experience incidents often have to face stress, anxiety, and may develop psychological problems such as depression or mental trauma. Feelings of hopelessness, fear, and haunting memories from the traumatic event can be long-lasting and profoundly affect daily quality of life.
The victim’s psychology can be disrupted, affecting concentration, sleep, and social relationships. Feelings such as low self-esteem, self-blame, and a loss of trust in the surrounding environment are also common psychological consequences after an incident.
To help victims recover mentally, safety management needs to provide psychological support, offer psychological support resources, and create a positive working environment.
VI. Researching solutions to prevent incidents from occurring
To research solutions to prevent incidents, we need a comprehensive approach with a systemic perspective. First, learn about the factors that cause incidents in the labor process, from the work environment to people and equipment. Analyzing data on past incidents can provide important information about patterns and causes.
Risk assessment is an important part of this process. This includes identifying high-risk areas and determining preventive measures that can be applied to minimize risk. Conducting regular safety inspections and reporting on safety status will help monitor performance and propose improvement measures.
In addition, combining training and awareness-building with employees about safety measures and work procedures is key.
VII. How to Handle Incidents Effectively and Positively
When an incident occurs, the handling process requires quick and positive action to minimize damage and ensure safety. First, identifying the cause of the incident is important to prevent recurrence in the future. The organization should conduct a thorough investigation to understand the specific cause and identify learning points.
From the moment the incident occurs, having an response drill plan in place needs to be implemented. This includes providing immediate support to those affected and accurate information to the entire organization. Managing leadership skills during an emergency is important to maintain the team’s positive and effective morale.
After the incident, clarifying immediate measures to prevent the incident from spreading and its consequences is important. The organization should develop a recovery plan, including assessing the damage, identifying redesign measures, or improving the system to prevent recurrence.
VIII. Occupational Safety Training Capacity of An Toan Nam Viet
An Toan Nam Viet is a reputable and high-quality center specializing in occupational safety training (in many different languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean….) in Vietnam today. With occupational safety training sessions held continuously at workshops, factories, or construction sites across the country (63 provinces in Vietnam).
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Occupational safety training license
- An Toan Nam Viet has been inspected and granted a certificate of eligibility for occupational safety and health training activities by the Department of Work Safety of the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs. This further strengthens our capacity in occupational safety training activities.
Materials and lectures
- Before occupational safety training materials are used in occupational safety training courses, they are reviewed and censored to ensure that the lectures are always accurate in terms of knowledge and effective when applied.
- The teaching methods of the instructors are standardized according to An Toan Nam Viet‘s teaching standards, which is a method that experts in occupational safety and health training have researched and refined during the teaching process to bring the highest knowledge acquisition efficiency for trainees.
Facilities
- Controlling factors in the classroom that affect the training process will increase teaching efficiency and the effectiveness of trainees’ knowledge acquisition.
- Our training course support facilities always arrange spacious classrooms that meet standards for area, lighting, training equipment, etc.
IX. Nationwide occupational environment monitoring center
Nam Viet’s occupational environment monitoring center is a professional unit for monitoring and measuring the quality of the working environment in all provinces throughout Vietnam. With a team of experienced monitoring specialists, the center uses modern measuring equipment, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
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In addition to providing monitoring services, the center also supports customers in planning, handling, and tracking occupational environment issues. With the motto “customer is the center”, we always bring customer satisfaction, meet all customer needs, and commit to providing the best solutions for businesses.
With investment in techniques, technology, and human resources, Nam Viet’s monitoring center has been and is becoming one of the reputable units in the field of occupational environment monitoring in Ho Chi Minh City with the following objectives:
- We always value our brand reputation and the quality of our service products.
- We provide customers with the best and most suitable things possible.
- Along with a team of experienced and professional Masters and Engineers with a desire to protect the environment and benefit businesses.
- Coming to the Nam Viet Environmental Monitoring team, your company will receive professional service with experts in the monitoring field. At the same time, you will get the best cost incentives.
The process of implementing occupational environment monitoring at Nam Viet includes the following basic steps:
- Before performing occupational environment monitoring, our company always ensures that machinery and equipment for occupational environment monitoring are calibrated and verified in accordance with legal regulations.
- Implement the occupational environment monitoring process correctly and fully as committed to the Department of Health.
- Honestly report the occupational environment monitoring results to the employer.
- In case the occupational environment monitoring results do not ensure safety for workers, Nam Viet company will support in providing remedial solutions and the labor establishment will proceed as follows:
- Implement measures to improve working conditions to minimize the impact of harmful factors and prevent occupational diseases.
- Organize health check-ups to detect occupational diseases and work-related illnesses early for workers in positions with unsecured working environments.
- Provide in-kind benefits to workers according to labor laws.
