For Kim Woods Only

Course Project

1. Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization, or at an

organization with which you are familiar and for which you have access to the required information:

Course Text: Manuele, F. A. (2014). Advanced safety management: Focusing on Z10 and serious injury

prevention. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS

ANSI/AIHA Z10 SECTIONS

COURSE TEXT CHAPTERS

1. Management Leadership 3.1 5, 6 2. Occupational Health and

Safety Policy 3.1.2 5

3. Responsibility and Authority

3.1.3 5

4. Employee Participation 3.2 5 5. Initial and Ongoing

Reviews 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 7

6. Assessment and Prioritization

4.2 8, 9, 10

7. Hierarchy of Controls 5.1.1 12 8. Design Review 5.1.2 13 9. Management of Change 5.1.2 15 10. Procurement 5.1.3 16 11. Emergency Preparedness 5.1.5 11 12. Education, Training, and

Awareness 5.2 11

13. Monitoring and Measurement

6.1 17

14. Incident Investigation 6.2 18 15. Audits 6.3 19 16. Corrective and Preventive

Actions 6.4 17

17. Feedback to the Planning Process

6.5 20

18. Management Review 7.1, 7.2 20

Some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:

Documents: organizational safety manuals and instructions, Safe Operating Procedures, and Job

Hazard Analyses;

Records: emails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records; Interviews: management personnel, supervisors, and employees; and Observation: walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.

2. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find).

Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:

 World Class: OHS Performance  Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans  Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in

place  Significant Non-Conformances Exist: still needs focus  Major Effort Required: major or systemic non-conformances exist

Appropriate references include the course textbook, textbooks from other college-level courses, ANSI/AIHA

Z10-2005, other published consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and

voluntary guidelines, and articles published in professional journals.

Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com, and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered

scholarly references and should not be used.

3. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure

to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.

4. Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management

system.

The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages, and a maximum of 10 pages, not including the

title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of five professional references/sources must be used.

Follow APA formatting for the paper, as well as for all references and in-text citations.

Safety Management: Week VIII Final Course Project

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