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osh4.pptHistorical Perspective and Overview
Modern Safety & Health Teams
- The modern safety and health team is headed by a safety and health manager.
- These managers seldom work alone.
- Rather they usually head a team of specialists that may include engineers, physicists, industrial hygienists, occupational physicians and health nurses.
Modern Safety & Health Teams
- These teams must deal with diverse issues as stress; explosives; laws; standards and codes; radiation; AIDS; product safety and liability; ergonomics; ethics; automation; workers’ compensation, and many others.
- It is unreasonable to expect one person to be an expert in all areas.
Safety & Health Managers
- Positions focuses on analysis, prevention, planning, evaluation, promotion, and compliance.
- Typical college majors in these positions include industrial safety and health technology, industrial technology, industrial engineering, manufacturing technology and related technology fields.
Problems S & H Managers Face
- Lack of commitment from top management.
- Some may see safety and health as a necessary evil.
- Production versus safety.
- At times, a safety or health measure will be viewed by some as interfering with productivity.
Solutions for S & H Managers
- The need for companywide commitment to safety and health.
- Lack of resources may complicate the challenge.
- Safety and health managers must understand the bottom line concerns of management, supervisors, and employees to gain a commitment to safety and health.
Solutions for S & H Managers
- The essential message that competitiveness comes from continually improving a company’s productivity, quality, cost, image, service and response time.
- These improvements can be achieved and maintained best in a safe and healthy work environment.
Solutions for S & H Managers
- To compete in the global marketplace, companies must continuously improve.
- Need to have the best people, the best technology, and get the most out of both by using the best management strategies.
Engineers and Safety
- Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety.
- Correspondingly, they can cause, inadvertently or through incompetence, accidents that result in serious injury and property damage.
- Engineers have more potential to affect safety than any other person.
Traditional Design Engineers
- Aerospace
- Electrical
- Mechanical
- Industrial
- Nuclear
Safety Engineer
- Title is often a misnomer.
- Typically the title is given to the person who has overall responsibility for the companies safety program.
- Not all safety engineers are engineering majors.
- Various technology degrees may have more formal education than engineers.
Industrial Hygienist
- Industrial hygienist may have a degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, or related physical and biological sciences.
- They are concerned with; recognizing the impact of environmental factors on people; evaluating the potential hazards of environmental stressors; and prescribing methods to eliminate stressors.
Health Physicist
- Concerned primarily with radiation in the work place.
- Duties include monitoring radiation, measuring the radioactive level of biological samples, developing the radiation components of a company’s emergency action plan, and supervising decontamination activities.
Risk Manager
- Risk management consists of the various activities and strategies that an organization can use to protect itself from situations, circumstances, or event that may undermine its security.
- We are all daily risk managers.
- Two strategies are used to manage risk: reduction and transference.
Risk Manager
- Reduction is any action that reduces potential hazards.
- Transference is literally transferring risk to another, such as an insurance company.
- These same methods apply to the workplace.
