Question

Compare and contrast the prevention through design concept with design safety reviews. Provide examples that illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Answer 1

Compare and contrast:
Prevention through Design is a national initiative to reduce occupational injury, illness, and fatalities that impact workers.
Prevention through safety link with incident reduction and achieve positive safety results for workers engagement.
Prevention through Design initiative is the most reliable and effective type of prevention. It has an intermediate goal to identify issues and partners and stakeholders participation to address the goal. Prevention through Design focuses on research, education, practice, and policy functional activity.
Prevention through safety is a behavior-based system approach, it is a more comprehensive and balance system to manage safety and preventing accidents from happening.
Prevention through Design:
Strength:
Example:
This study design help for clinical intervention for the different demographic group to carefully choose the treatment for practice. This design method identifies populations like high risk and low-risk populations and the treatment-adherent.
Weakness;
It will provide a negative result we can not find whether the treatment is effective or ineffective under optimal conditions.
Prevention through safety:
example:
Strength:
These safety measures improve people knowledge and make awareness and it is a simple way and direct mechanism to prevent occupational risks like noise, radiation, and musculoskeletal injury, etc.
Weakness:
Most of the safety practice not provided for workers it makes the unnessasary risk for them. most of the workers in the companies with less knowledge having less awareness to handle some risk-based equipment and other factors it makes them harm before preventing. So workers education is a must before they start a job.