Assessment of Health and Safety Hazards Affecting Workers at Saline Water Conversion Corporation Lathe Workshop

Workplace safety is a crucial topic for all the factories in various industries. The workers in the Lathe workshops are always at risks of injuries due to the presence of various hazardous materials which could lead to fatal injuries for them. It is important for every company to carry out various risk assessments to develop a safety practice related to the operations performed by the workers. The focus of this research is to use analytical tools to identify safety hazards in a Lathe workshop located in SWCC facilities in Jeddah. The Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) approach identified various safety issues related to the worker activities and operations. A risk assessment is performed to find key solutions to the identified issues. At the end, the solutions are recommended to the Lathe workshop management in terms of improving its health and safety practice. The recommended solutions include the assessment of risks and their elimination, if possible, the implementation of 6s approach, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by the workers, the utilization of safety sign boards, implementation of lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedure and the development of the health, safety, and environment (HSE) department. The research is limited to the operations and activities performed by the Lathe workshop workers.