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Roles and Professional Certification for Safety & Health Professionals:
Learning Objectives -
- Modern Safety and Health Teams
- Safety and Health Manger
- Engineers and Safety
- Industrial Hygienist
- Health Physicist
- Occupational Physician/Occupational Health Nurse
- Risk Manager
- Certification of Safety and Health Professionals
- Emerging Role of Safety and Health Professionals
Modern Safety and Health Teams: -
Modern safety and health managers normally do not work alone.
It is very important for safety and health managers to understand not only their roles but all the roles of
the members of the safety and health team.
The following is an illustration of a modern safety and health team
Safety and Health
Manager -
Safety
Manager
Environmental
engineer
Industrial
hygienist
Health
physicist
Occupational
Health
nurse
Occupational
physician
Safety and Health Manager -
The safety and health manager is the most important member of the safety and health team.
How can you tell if a company is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace?
The OSH Act really help show the importance of having safety and health professionals.
OSHA standards, on-site inspections and penalties have encouraged companies to be committed to
safety and health.
The job of a safety and health manager is complex as well as diverse.
Safety and Health Manager -
, Safety and Health manager job duties range from hazard analysis, accident reporting, standards and
compliance, record keeping and training to emergency planning.
The safety and health manager's role depends on if this is a full time position or in addition to the
manager's other duties.
What is the difference between line authority and staff authority? -
The following list shows problems safety and health managers face -
. 1.Lack of commitment
2. Production versus Safety
3. Company-wide Commitment to Safety and Health
4. Lack of Resources
Factors that produce competitiveness -
The key components to productivity:
1. Productivity
2. Quality
3. Cost
4. Response time
Image relates more directly to safety
and health.
Essential
Ingredients of
Competitiveness -
Quality
Productivity
Cost
Response
time
Service
Image
There are numerous agencies and organizations that are very helpful for safety and health managers -
1. Certification boards
2. Professional societies
3. Scientific standards and testing organizations
4. Government agencies
5. Trade associations
Engineers and Safety -
Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety.
An engineer has more potential to affect a safety in the workplace than any other person.
An engineer has an opportunity to show good and bad during the design process.
Not all engineers are design engineers.
Here are examples of design-oriented engineering fields
* Aerospace Engineering
Roles and Professional Certification for Safety & Health Professionals:
Learning Objectives -
- Modern Safety and Health Teams
- Safety and Health Manger
- Engineers and Safety
- Industrial Hygienist
- Health Physicist
- Occupational Physician/Occupational Health Nurse
- Risk Manager
- Certification of Safety and Health Professionals
- Emerging Role of Safety and Health Professionals
Modern Safety and Health Teams: -
Modern safety and health managers normally do not work alone.
It is very important for safety and health managers to understand not only their roles but all the roles of
the members of the safety and health team.
The following is an illustration of a modern safety and health team
Safety and Health
Manager -
Safety
Manager
Environmental
engineer
Industrial
hygienist
Health
physicist
Occupational
Health
nurse
Occupational
physician
Safety and Health Manager -
The safety and health manager is the most important member of the safety and health team.
How can you tell if a company is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace?
The OSH Act really help show the importance of having safety and health professionals.
OSHA standards, on-site inspections and penalties have encouraged companies to be committed to
safety and health.
The job of a safety and health manager is complex as well as diverse.
Safety and Health Manager -
, Safety and Health manager job duties range from hazard analysis, accident reporting, standards and
compliance, record keeping and training to emergency planning.
The safety and health manager's role depends on if this is a full time position or in addition to the
manager's other duties.
What is the difference between line authority and staff authority? -
The following list shows problems safety and health managers face -
. 1.Lack of commitment
2. Production versus Safety
3. Company-wide Commitment to Safety and Health
4. Lack of Resources
Factors that produce competitiveness -
The key components to productivity:
1. Productivity
2. Quality
3. Cost
4. Response time
Image relates more directly to safety
and health.
Essential
Ingredients of
Competitiveness -
Quality
Productivity
Cost
Response
time
Service
Image
There are numerous agencies and organizations that are very helpful for safety and health managers -
1. Certification boards
2. Professional societies
3. Scientific standards and testing organizations
4. Government agencies
5. Trade associations
Engineers and Safety -
Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety.
An engineer has more potential to affect a safety in the workplace than any other person.
An engineer has an opportunity to show good and bad during the design process.
Not all engineers are design engineers.
Here are examples of design-oriented engineering fields
* Aerospace Engineering
