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Abstract Good practice of occupational health and safety can be achieved by considering the security of each employees, employers and other shareholders. Occupational health and safety measures put in workplace at the Damietta Port are not enough in some places and there are some of workers are dissatisfied with the safety and occupational health controls and measures that currently applied at their workplaces. In some departments, some labors suffered from insufficient ventilation such as in workshop and vehicles workshop, also they complain that they aren’t providing with comfortable protective equipment and for this reason most of the labors don’t committed to wearing PPEs. At some administration buildings, escape exits that are specified to be used in emergency cases for evacuation are not complied with civil defense law where the emergency doors are difficult to be opened and the escape stairs are rusty and not suitable for evacuation also there are no emergency light on the escape routes. At the maintenance workshop, one major inadequacy in occupational health practices that there are welding activities in a closed room without any ventilation. This represents high risk for the welder due to the likelihood of fire and suffocation occurrence. At painting workshop, it is noticed that the waste segregation is not applied. There is hazardous waste as thinner, paints cans and containers with solid and plastic wastes that may cause fire. Another finding, fire extinguishers are found all over areas and administration buildings but not distributed well according to the size of place and the type of activities. |