It is reported that a cleaning firm was fined after two of its employees received chemical burns in two separate incidents. The firm was fined for lack of enforcing supervision. Though there are no details about the extent of injuries or procedure followed, it appears that the accidents could have been due to (i) lack of procedure or violation of procedure, or (ii) hiring of persons without knowledge about the work, or (iii) lack of training, apart from the lack of supervision.
Training and supervision are generally the two most commonly found recommendations made by the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) of US in their investigation of several accidents. And, these are also statutory requirements.
We have to ensure proper selection of persons, training, job hazard analysis, safe operating procedure, do's and dont's material safety data sheets and supervision to carryout given task safely.
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