• incidents of fire, explosion, or accident in the past year
• leaking roofs
• ignition sources such as heat / sparks / open flames / electrostatic discharge in the neighbourhood of flammable
liquids / gases / dusts
• containers that are labelled with hazard symbols
• situations where the skin of workers is contaminated with chemicals
• spoiled or expired chemicals
• enforcing the elimination of smoking, eating or drinking at the work place
• the provision of suitable washing and changing facilities
• situations where workers do not have appropriate tools (or are using improvised tools) for mixing, weighing,
transportation, etc