Introduction

Occupational health and safety student Elizabeth H Iipinge from Tulipohamba

Training and assessment Institute was sent in field to do practical attachment at
MNC construction at Med-clinic in Windhoek under the site manager Steven , two
junior site manager Alex and Kurt Peterson and two safety officer George
Ndjitavina and Lilian Hangula for three months. The programme of work was
requested to determine the profile of the workforce to identify potential hazard
and risk of workers, to determine the level of workers care provided by the
management and factors that lead to accident or injuries at the workplace.

Occupational health: is a cross disciplinary area concerned with protecting the

safety health and welfare of people in workplaces and even outside example
visitors.

Safety: is the state in which the risk of harm to person or property damage to
and maintained at or below an acceptable level through a continuing process of
hazard identification and risk management.

Hazard: is any substances, object, situation circumstances that can cause harm
to an individual or workers.

Occupational hygienic: is a discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluation and

controlling health hazard in the working environment and were being and safe
guarding the community.

Risk: is a like hood of harm.

Risk assessment: is the process of identifying/evaluation the associated risk.

2 Assignments

Workplace profile provide a framework to each organisation to identify and

record all staff information.it is the starting point for workplace planning because
it provided the foundation information that you must have to do effective
workplace planning. The workplace profile includes information on current staff
positions, number of people employed in each position skill of existing staff
notes. The workplace is needed is needed because you cannot do workforce
planning without a workforce profile. However you need to know and have
documented what position you have, how many people in each position, they
responsibilities and skill required for the position.
All There are seventeen employees working for NMC construction most of the
employees are working for sub-contractors. Two of the seventeen NMC
employees are female and fifteen are males. There are seven semi-skilled who
have no qualification; four are skilled like first aider, scaffold erecter and two
crane operators. There are six professionals one is senior site manager, two are
junior site managers, two safety officer and one civil engineer.

employees are provided with safe clean environment. They are provided with
scaffold to protect workers working on height from falling. Appropriate PPE is
provided by the employer e.g. overall, ear plugs, safety shoes, gloves, goggles,
safety harnesses and dust mask. Overall to protect the body from injuries,
earplugs preventing of hearing loss, gloves when they handling hard or sharp
objects, goggles for eyes protection and dust mask to prevent dust not to enter
into the nose and protect worker not to suffer from occupational work related
injury. According to the Namibian labour act 11 of 2007 section 39 sub-section 1
says in the duties of the employer to provide a safe work environment with no
harm to the employees and appropriate PPE. All employees never starting a task
without correctly instruction they given instruction everyday morning during jika
meeting in order to get accidents frequency even lower or zero harm to all.

2.3. Identification of hazards and risks

Hazards: anything that has a potential to cause harm to the people, damage to
materials tools and property.

Risk: Is a combination of the probability outcome will occur and the severity of
the harm involved.

Physical hazards: such as falls from the height, electricity, noise, heat, cold, or
ventilation plant operation like machineries, equipment tools or appliances.

Biological hazard: like infectious diseases, things that cause asthma like flour
dust and other illness.

Chemical hazards: such as working with dangerous chemical radiation such as

welding flash, smoking , using spray painting, and oil.

Psychological hazards: such as fatigue or stress.

Ergonomic hazards: such as carrying or moving heavy thing or the height and
position of benches or work station.

All hazard and risk are identified by indicated with sign, danger tape, rotating
workers, resting time edge protection at the edge of the deck to protect workers
at height from falling.
2.4 working health and safety care system

Health and safety management system is a process to put in place by an

employer to minimize the risk of injured and illness.

This is accomplished by identifying, assessing and controlling risk to workers in

the workplace.

Worker competency and training, workers are know how to do their job safely
and without risk to their health.

If an employee got injuries at work he or she is given first aid by the qualified
first aider and if the injury is serious they sent them to the hospital for treatment.
The first aid box is available at the site. Clean drinking water is available at the
site and toilet. They have one hour lunch to rest, they wash their hand when they
use a toilet or contact with chemical.

3 Findings

3.1 for 2.1 employer provide PPE to his employees all new employee and visitor
come to the site use to be given induction about the side rules. Every
Wednesday toolbox talk is communicated to the employees. I never sow an
employee come to work under the influence of alcohol. Minor injury happens
almost every day. Every day site manager and employees do jika meeting about
the job that workers have to do for a day. Low absenteeism rate, only few
employees have qualification and trained for what they doing.

3.2 for 2.2 Scaffold erected for the employees who work on heights and the sign
are placed on to show that the scaffold is safe or unsafe. Edge protection is put
on to prevent workers from falling.

3.3 for 2.3 Hazards and risk identify by putting on edge protection, danger tap
and removing the sharp object from the work area. Crane operator whizzes when
lifting materials to make people aware of the overhead load.kj
3.4 For 2.4 Drinking water available on site , one hour lunch is provided as
indicate in the Namibian labour act. If employees got injury first aid is given and
if serious is taken to the hospital.

During the attachment I happened to gain a lot of skills and knowledge like risk
assessment, identifying hazard, toolbox talk and induction. I think this was the
best company that can help students. Lastly would I would like to thanks the site
managers, safety officer and the employees for the help and assistance they
offered.

References

Safety files hand out, safety officer and site manager.

Appendices

Risk assessment; job planned observation, toolbox talk, induction and Susa
conversation.
FINAL REPORT FORMART

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY FIELD ATTACHEMENT REPORT AT NMC

CONSTRUCTION NAMIBIA.

PERIOD OF ATTACHEMENT: 05 SEPTEMBER UNTIL 28 DECEMBER

NAME OF TRAINER: ELIZABETH H IIPINGE

NAME OF TRAINER: GEORGE NDJITAVINA

NAME OF SUPERVISOR: STEVEN VAN SCHALKWYK