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UNSAFE WELDING – WHO SHALL PROTECT THEM?


WHO SHALL PROTECT THEM?

When you type “unsafe welding” in internet search, this picture will show up.
 Everyone with some knowledge in welding safety will know that this is seriously
wrong.  Not only that the man is not protected from the welding hazards, he is
in fire risk too.  The newspaper he used for face shield can catch fire.

It is hard to believe that such thing could happen but in fact you can find this
quite common in many workshops.

The man is exposed to every welding hazards you can imagine, heat, radiation,
toxic fume and fire.  Yet, many, including this welder, or even his employer,
claimed that this is how they work and they have been doing this for long time.
 “Nothing has happened” is what they always claimed.

Would you allow your workers to work like this?

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WEARING GLOVES TO SERVE FOOD?


HACCP AND FOOD SAFETY ARTICLE



If you are selling food in the hawker center or food court, do you need to wear
gloves to prepare and serve the food to your customers?

Many times, we eat at coffee shop or hawker stall, the same person who serve us
food with bare hands also receives cash from us with bare hands.  How would you
feel? I am sure you have seen how your order is being served especially when you
are eating at a hawker stall. Do you think that they should wear a pair of
gloves so that their bare hands do not touch the food?

Many people think that cash (currency notes or coins) is most dirty because
everybody handles cash with bare hands. Passing over hundreds or thousands of
people’s hand, you can imagine how dirty it can be.

How would you then expect your orders be handled?  You may feel that it will be
best that the hands that serve you food wear a pair of hand gloves.  However,
can you be sure that the gloves are clean?  What if while he has just prepared
your order wearing the same pair of gloves and during the preparation, he may
have touched raw meat? Or he has just received cash from other customers without
taking off the same pair of gloves? Or even worse, what if he has not changed
his hand gloves since he started working at the stall that morning? The gloves
may not be clean and can be even dirtier than bare hands.  If not gloves, would
you rather prefer him to wash his hands before he brought you the food you have
ordered?

Thus, wearing a pair of hand gloves does not guarantee cleanliness.  And let’s
talk about food safety. Are you sure the hand gloves he is wearing are safe for
handling food? Not all gloves are food safe unless they have compliance with
accepted standards such as American FDA (Food & Drug Authority) food handling
requirements.  Many gloves may release unsafe materials to the food.

The key question, as far as food sellers are concerned, is how to prepare and
deliver food to the customer’s table so that the food is delicious, nutritious
and safe for their consumption?  There is no standard procedure to achieve that
for every food stall.  It all depends on how the food is prepared and served.

Let us take a chicken rice seller as an example and start from the kitchen.
 Assuming that the kitchen is clean and foods are processed following Good
Manufacturing Process. Our discussion here is, do they need to wear hand gloves
in preparing the raw chicken before putting it to the pot for cooking?

The answer could either be “Yes” or “No”.

Washing your hand before cleaning the chicken is all you need while preparing
the raw chicken for cooking. You do not need to wear hand glove to keep the
chicken clean unless you want to protect your hands from the wet work.  I would
put on a pair of dry and clean hand gloves if I am going to wash and clean a lot
of chicken for quite a long time as I do not want to get eczema or nail-bed
disorders due to fungal and bacterial growth. Wearing a pair of impermeable hand
glove will protect my hands from the water and animal fats while I am washing
and preparing the chicken for cooking. However, my hands may still be wet and
macerated due to sweating. I have to keep my hands dry by regularly drying my
hands and my gloves because a sweating hand inside the warm rubber glove is also
a perfect environment for bacterial and fungal growth, causing skin diseases
like eczema.

So, what happens if your hands sweat profusely in the gloves? Does that mean
wearing gloves may not be the answer to protect your hand from wet works? Does
that mean you have no choice but to do the washing and cleaning with bare hands
and contract skin diseases in long run? No need to worry, there is a solution.
If you opt to wear gloves, you can apply sweat reducing hand cream or lotion to
your hands before wearing gloves.  If you opt not to wear gloves, you can apply
water repelling hand cream (it must be food safe of course) to your hands,
instead of wearing hand gloves, before starting the cleaning works.  Such hand
cream could protect your hands from the water or animal fat also but you have to
re-apply after a few hours.

Now, let’s get back to the chicken rice business. After cleaning the chickens,
you cook them.  I presume that the temperature you use to cook them will kill
all germs present in the raw chickens.

After cooking the chickens, some chefs they cool the chicken in cold water to
give the chicken meat nice texture. Most chicken rice are served with the cold
chicken. You can see in the chicken rice shop that somewhere near the person who
is chopping the chicken into pieces, the whole cooked and cold chickens are hung
on hooks and arranged nicely in row waiting to be chopped.

During handling of the cold chicken, until they were chopped into pieces and
served on a dinner plate with rice to the customer’s table, the hands must be
cleaned thoroughly with hand soap if you prefer to use your bare hands.
 Frequent and repeated washing of hands may be necessary if you are doing
something else that possibly cause your hands to be contaminated.  Also, make
sure that there is no wound or any kind of skin disease on your hands.

If you do not want to wash your hand too many times (repeat washing hands too
many times with hand soap can be worse than wearing hand gloves in term of
eczema) or it is just not practical, then you have to wear hand gloves.

You can wear either disposable (single use) or reusable type of hand gloves.
 They must be food safe (safe for food handling).

The most common disposable hand gloves are either made of 100% natural latex
rubber or 100% nitrile (a synthetic rubber) rubber.  Single-use (disposable)
hand gloves give best dexterity but limited hand protection because they are
thin as compared to the reusable types. The reusable gloves on the other hand
are thicker giving better protection to hand. Many, however, find that they can
not work effectively with the hand gloves. This is mainly because they are
wearing the wrong size gloves, either too large or too small.

Allergic to protein contained in the natural latex is another problem. If you do
develop skin allergy after wearing the natural latex gloves, try the nitrile.
 There are however increasing reports now on allergy to nitrile glove.  You can
choose gloves made of some other materials.

For the cold (cooked) chicken handling, disposable types would be better than
the reusable because first of all you do not need a high level of protection to
your hand. The main purpose of wearing the disposable gloves is to prevent food
contamination by hands.  Disposable gives the best level of dexterity because
most of them are skin-tight like Doctor wearing their surgical gloves.

Remember to change the disposable gloves once broken.  Disposable latex gloves
are quite easily torn or broken due to abrasion.  Nitrile glove has a higher
level of resistance to puncture and abrasion.  Nitrile gloves however may cost
you more than the latex gloves.

Wearing a pair of broken or torn gloves will not be safe for both hand and food.
Take them off immediately, wash your hand with hand soap, dry them and put on a
new pair of hand gloves.

One last thing, do not forget to wash your hands with gloves if you are doing
something else that may contaminate the hand gloves.  If they are disposables,
you may as well change a new pair. Unless you keep your hand gloves clean at all
time, wearing hand gloves does not guarantee food safety.

It is therefore a matter of choice and that is absolutely your discretion.  The
primary purpose of wearing hand gloves is in fact to protect hands.  You should
put gloves on if you need hand protection in whatever you do.  If hand
protection is not necessary, you can use bare hands.  Frequent washing hands
with hand soap could be more effective than wearing gloves and it is absolutely
perfect to handle food with bare hands if your hands are clean.  However, if you
do not want to wash your hands too many times to make your hands vulnerable to
microbial infection, you have no choice but to wear gloves. If you do that, you
have to make sure the gloves on your hands are kept clean at all times during
the process of food preparation and serving to your customers.

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LOCKOUT / TAGOUT CAN SAVE LIFE



29 October 2013, news on Sin Chiew Daily – On 28 October 2013, a 23 years old
Indonesia worker died in a factory in Demak Laut while he was cleaning a
machine.  Another worker suddenly activated the machine.  The moving parts of
the machine pinched the victim’s left arm.  He died with a severe injury on his
head.

Without knowing the details, we can only imagine what was happening.  Based on
the description on the newspaper, at least one of the causes of the accident was
“someone else suddenly activated the machine”.  We can therefore imagine that
the machine was deactivated (switched off) before the victim started cleaning
it.  If “someone else” did not suddenly activate (switch on) the machine there
will be no accident.

There could be reasons for “someone else” to switch on the machine and I believe
that he (or she) did not know that someone is there cleaning the machine.



May be the machine was normally at ON position and it was unusual for someone to
clean the machine without informing others.

The person who initiated the cleaning work on the machine must make sure that
the power source was locked out and tagged out. Someone (or he) is responsible
for locking out the machine before he started cleaning.   Locking out and
tagging out the machine will ensure that “someone else” will never be able to
activate the machine without unlocking by the one who imposed the lock out.

LOCKOUT / TAGOUT is a simple safety system and program that can prevent this
kind of accident to happen.  Do you have one in your factory?

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