Industrial Hygiene and Safety Measures
Definition
Action, regulation, or other measure to prevent accidents at the workplace, avoid potential health hazards caused by the work environment, and make the workplace safer for employees.
Industrial hygiene and safety measures are divided into the following categories:
In the application we generally use the shorter form safety measure instead of industrial hygiene and safety measure. This also applies to the data structure.
Use
You enter industrial hygiene and safety measures to document activities that relate to a work area or persons that work in the work area and monitor their successful completion. Industrial hygiene and safety measures are therefore an instrument used to actively improve the prevention of accidents and hazards.
You can enter industrial hygiene and safety measures for the following objects:
Structure
Safety Measure Context
Depending on which object the safety measure relates to, it has the following header information:
|
Work area |
Risk assessment |
Incident/accident log entry |
| Work area | Agent, agent type | Incident/accident log entry |
|
Plant |
Work area |
Incident/accident log entry type |
|
Higher-level work area |
Operation status |
Plant |
|
Sequential number of risk assessment |
If the accident location is a work area, the safety measure also has an indirect reference to a work area. |
Safety Measure Category
Each safety measure is categorized from a logical point of view by the safety measure category.
In the standard system, safety measures of the category technical can be integrated into the SAP Plant Maintenance component. This means you can pass on technical safety measures as part of a notification to maintenance processing where they are known as tasks. For more information, see
Integration in Plant Maintenance.If you want to adapt or extend the categories, process the IMG activity Specify Safety Measure Categories in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
Safety Measure Type
The safety measures in a safety measure category can be grouped into safety measure types. In Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety under Specify Safety Measure Types you can set which safety measure types you want to use.
Safety Measure Status
See
Status Editing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety Measures.Additional Information
Using the additional information you can specify the organizational information and content of the safety measure in more detail. These details can include the following information:
You specify the protection goal in the form of a
phrase, which you choose using the input help. You must have created the phrases already and assigned them to the field. For more information, see Assign Phrase Sets to Fields in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
You can enter the degree of success of the safety measure. You must have already defined the values you want to be able to choose from in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety under Specify Effectiveness.
You can specify the various persons responsible. These can be
