1. Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health
PART 1

2. Safety Historical Perspectives
Ancient
What were the safety and health concerns?
Medieval
Safety strategies?
Industrial revolution
Machines!

3. 6 Reasons to Prevent Accidents
Needless destruction of life and health is morally unjustified
Failure to take necessary precautions against predictable accidents and occupational illness makes management and workers morally responsible for those accidents and occupational illnesses
Accidents and occupational illnesses severely limit efficiency and productivity

4. 6 Reason… (cont.)
Accidents and occupational illnesses produce far-reaching social harm
The safety movement has demonstrated that its techniques are effective in reducing accident rates and promoting efficiency.
Recent state and federal legislation mandates management responsibility to provide a safe, healthful workplace

5. Cant Take No More http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2JTQjiCdc
0:38 – 4:20

6. US Common Law Doctrine Fellow Servant Contributory Negligence
The employer was not liable for injury to an employee that resulted from negligence of a fellow employee
Contributory Negligence
The employer was not liable if the employee was injured because of his or her own negligence
Assumption of Risk
The employer was not liable because the employee took the job with full knowledge of the risks and hazards involved

7. Worker Compensation
Financial support system established under law to provide income, medical care, and rehabilitation to employees for illness, injury, or death arising out of, and in the course of, their employment whether or not the employee was at fault. These benefits are claimed by the employees (or their dependents) as a matter of right and the employer cannot resort to any legal defense. Amount paid as compensation is based on the salary of the employee (also on the number of his or her dependents in some jurisdictions) and is usually subject to a specified maximum.

8. National Safety Council (1912)
Primary purpose to provide an avenue of communication, an exchange of views, and various solutions to common problems in accident prevention.

9. Worker Rights Walsh-Healey Act
Wainwright Law (NY 1910)
Declared unconstitutional on March 25, 1911
Walsh-Healey Act
Mandates safety measures in companies having supply contracts with the federal government
William Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHAct)
First US comprehensive national safety law

10. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What Sparked Change?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

11. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What Sparked Change?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

12. How to Change? The three Es of safety Engineering Education
Enforcement

13. Safety Resources Knowledge and experience Cooperation and goodwill
Books, manuals, health and safety organizations, government agencies and insurance companies
Cooperation and goodwill
Management more “sympathetic” regarding safety and health issues
Professionalism
ASSE – American Society of Safety Engineers
AIHA- American Industrial Hygiene Association

14. Achievements of Safety Movement
What has the Safety Movement Achieved?

15. Safety Historical Perspectives
Current issues
Technology
New processes = New problems
Politics
What is the role of government?
The future??
Products
Business
People

16. What does a Safety Manager contribute to business?