Question

1.Think of three stressors you have experienced in the last 12 months. Identify your stressors as daily, acute, chronic or catastrophic

2. Imagine you are a newly hired Health and Safety Coordinator in charge of conducting a Health and Safety Audit to prevent the spread of COVID 19. What controls would you implement to prevent contact with the Biohazard COVID 19 in your workplace?

Type of ControL	Description	Examples
Engineering
Administrative
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal Hygiene

Answer 1

1. For the assessment am going to explain three stressors, I have experienced in the last 12 months:

A. One stressor I have experience in the previous 12 months is traffic jams. Once I had an important meeting in my workplace, and I almost got late because of the traffic jam, and this was an acute stress, it lasted for a short period.

B. A few months before, I experienced a massive earthquake. I was in my room trying to complete my unfinished work, and then suddenly everything starts jerking rapidly, my heart started beating fast because I did not know what to do, I just sat there praying to God. That was a catastrophic stress I experienced.

3. Before eight months, I lost my grandfather. I was devastated and that time because he was very close to me. It was a chronic stressor because it affected my mental health, and I still cannot get over it.

2. Following are the controls I would implement to prevent the contact with biohazard COVID-19 at my workplace:

Type of control: engineering

Description: it involves redesigning the system or a process to maintain a barrier between the hazard and the persons

Example: Establish isolation wards in the hospital to avoid the contact of COVID-19 patients with other patients.

Type of control: administrative

Description: it includes the adoption of specific operating procedures for practices and providing appropriate training or instructions to reduce the potential for occurrence of hazard

Example: Provide proper training to the nurses and doctors on how to deal with any COVID-19 positive patient.

Type of control: personal protective equipment

Description: these are some types of equipment and tools designed for reducing the exposure to the hazard

Example: usage of PPE kits, gloves, N95 masks, etc.

Type of control: personal hygiene

Description: it involves adopting various personal sanitation and hygiene practices to avoid the chances of the hazard.

Example: washing hands with soaps frequently, using sanitizers, etc.