Health Safety in Cosmetics Industries: A Case Study of Evaluation on Physical Environmental Safety

Background: Cosmetics production must contains some risks. This study aimed to evaluate the aspects of occupational health and safety in physical environmental aspects on cosmetics production in a cosmetic industry. Methods: This study was an evaluation study. It used qualitative approach to obtain information concerning on safety risk of employees who worked in this cosmetic industry. The researcher combined the interview data with the observation results to determine the risks as occupational level using HIRARC (Hazard Indentification, Risk Assessmentand Risk Control). Data were obtained by interview, observation and risks assessment. Results: The Result found that cosmetic production process had three categories of risk. They are low 23, 8 %, medium 71, 4 % and high 4, 7 %. The highest risk in working activity was mixing substances using big blender. Further, there were 21 hazard risks based on HIRARC identification. Moreover, the cosmetics production had fulfilled standard of occupational health and safety, especially in the physical environmental aspect.