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Historical Perspective and Overview
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Traditional Design Engineers Aerospace Electrical Mechanical Industrial Nuclear
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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