{"id":49,"date":"2024-03-31T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:14:15","slug":"ehs-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/ehs-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"EHS definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EHS-definintions-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Hazard: <\/strong>It is defined as \u201c any event with the potential to cause harm, ill health, injury, damage to property, plants, products or the environment, production losses or increased liabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Risk:<\/strong> It is combination of probability of occurrence and its severity of consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong> R= P X S<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Nearmiss:<\/strong> It means any unplanned, sudden event that could have caused injury to man, materials or environment or could have involved a loss of containment possibly giving rise to adverse effect but not resulted in such accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Accident<\/strong>: It is an undesired or unintentional event that results in physical harm to a person or damage to property or environment. It is usually the result of a contact with a source of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Unsafe condition:<\/strong> It means existence of a mechanical, physical, chemical or environmental condition, situation or state of affairs, which may cause hazard or accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25ba  <strong>Unsafe act:<\/strong> It means an act which a prudent (Careful) man should not have done and which results in hazard, accident or injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various EHS definitions &#8211; Unsafe act, unsafe condition, accident, near miss <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[12,23,13,8,25,20,19,24,3,27,26],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-blog","tag-accident","tag-hazard","tag-industrial-accident","tag-industrial-safety","tag-nearmiss","tag-pdis","tag-post-diploma-in-industrial-safety","tag-risk","tag-safety","tag-unsafe-condtion","tag-unsafeact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}