Industrial Safety and Protection
Introduction
Industrial Safety is the system of mandatory provisions that aim to prevent and limit risks, as well as protection against accidents capable of causing damage to people, property or the environment derived from industrial activity or use.
Industrial facilities include a wide variety of mining, transportation, power generation, manufacturing and waste disposal operations that have inherent hazards and require careful handling.
For example, industrial operations that include the handling, storage and processing of potentially hazardous substances such as reactive chemicals and hazardous waste. Likewise, industrial facilities may carry potential hazards that are different from those of hazardous substances.
These risks are generally due to chemical substances and reactions caused in industries, businesses or homes and occur due to improper use of fuel or failures in electrical installations.
Due to the existence of dangers in industrial environments, it is necessary to adequately manage the following risks to minimize adverse impacts:
Delimitation
Risk analysis, as part of the Information Security Management System, is necessary for the company to carry out adequate risk management that allows it to know which are the main vulnerabilities of its information assets and which are the threats that could exploit the vulnerabilities. A threat can then be defined as an event that can affect information assets and is related to human resources, natural events or technical failures. Some examples may be external computer attacks, errors or omissions by company personnel, malware infections, earthquakes, electrical storms, or power surges.
On the other hand, a vulnerability is a characteristic of an information asset and that represents a risk to the security of the information. When a threat materializes and there is a vulnerability that can be exploited, there is an exposure to some type of loss for the company. For example, having weak passwords on the systems and the data network not being properly protected can be exploited for external computer attacks.
Industrial Safety is a mandatory technique or discipline in every company. This applies to the use of tools or machinery, which in addition to facilitating work performance, maintains confidence in the work being carried out, making the worker feel totally safe not to take risks. Every company or industry must always be clear about the responsibility it has towards its workers, taking into account that it must also require its workers to comply with a series of rules and conditions in order to guarantee safety and protection, such as the use of: industrial helmets, boots, gloves, among other tools that must be appropriate for the work to be carried out. All of these tools must be provided by the same company.