Environmental/Occupational Paper 1

In this assignment, you will be a health and safety manager of ExxonMobile that has an oil and gas manufacturing facility in Texas.

The objective of this SLP is to describe the setting/environment:

1. Describe      

- the occupational setting 

- the number of employees 

- the workers’ demographics (age, gender, ethnicity) 

- the industrial or manufacturing processes that take place

1. Describe      the health and safety officer and the roles/responsibilities they      play in this facility. 

SLP Assignment Expectations

Length: The SLP assignment should be 3-4 pages, APA format, scholarly sources required, use subheadings.

Useful resources:

Levy, B. S., Wegman, D. H., Baron, S. L., & Sokas, R. K. (Eds.) (2011). Section I.1: Occupational and environmental health: Twenty-first century challenges and opportunities. In Occupational and environmental health: Recognizing and preventing disease and injury (6th ed., pp. 3-20). New York: Oxford University Press.

McMichael, A. J., Butler, C. D., & Dixon, J. (2015). Climate change, food systems, and population health risks in their eco-social context. Public Health, 129(10), 1361-1368. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2014.11.013.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2019a). Environmental health. Healthy People 2020. Accessed at https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/environmental-health

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2019b). Occupational safety and health. Healthy People 2020. Accessed at https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/occupational-safety-and-health

Philip, R. B. (2012). Chapter 1: Introduction and overview. In Environmental issues for the twenty-first century and their impact on human health. SAIF Zone, Sharjah, UAE: Bentham Science Publishers.

U.S. National Library of Medicine (2018). Section 1: Introduction. In Toxtutor: Learn essential principles of toxicology. Accessed at https://toxtutor.nlm.nih.gov/01-000.html