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A comprehensive safety and health program involves engineering, and placement of the function within the personnel department may restrict authority too much.

CPSC concentrates on the responsibility of the manufacturers of the machines and equipment, whereas OSHA concentrates on the responsibility of the employer who places the equipment into use in the workplace.

OSHA is concerned with hazardous exposures to workers, i. EPA is concerned with hazardous exposures to the public, particularly as these hazards affect the earth, water, and atmosphere.

Many safety and health hazards inside the plant and outside are the same, or are caused by the same chemical agents or physical factors. Prior to passage of the OSHA law occupational health seemed remote and not of a great deal of concern.

Plant nurses were concerned with first aid and physical examinations. After OSHA, occupational disease prevention rose in importance. The Bhopal, India disaster in which the release of methyl isocyanate gas killed civilians. This incident showed that dangerous working conditions do not just impact the workers, but everyone around a facility. The four environmental issues addresses were global warming, green engineering, petroleum conservation, and tobacco smoke.

Green engineering is focused on the reduction of carbon fuels, which in turn directly impact global warming. Systems Safety is considered essential in airlines, aerospace, and hospitals. These are industries in which the failure of a system can be catastrophic. Systems Safety recognizes the benefit of such life-cycle planning and design, and the System Safety Society is one of the. The achievement of worker safety lies principally in the hands of the workers themselves and their direct supervisors; thus it is principally a line function.

Safety and health managers, however, are staff positions. Acting as a facilitator in assisting, motivating, and advising the line function in achieving worker safety and health.

The workers compensation system is a state, not federal system. The system is nearly years old; the first workers compensation laws were introduced into state legislatures in The ostensible purpose is to protect the worker by providing statutory compensation levels to be paid by the employer for various injuries that may be incurred by the worker.

Management contends that some risk is inescapable in any line of work. Therefore, their answer to the question is no. An industrial safety consultant employed by an insurance company. Also other variations in conditions, such as employment levels and recession cycles.

Frequency measures the numbers of cases per standard quantity of workhours. Seriousness is the ratio of severity to frequency and measures the average seriousness of all cases. All three are obsolete terms now. For general records: 5 years Chapter 5 will reveal longer retention requirements for certain records. Yes; they can help to discover hazards, but they can also dilute responsibility for workplace safety and health and can degenerate into spy parties.

Without adequate orientation, safety and health committees can often become unreasonable. Costs of wages paid for time lost by workers who were not injured. Cost of damage to material or equipment. Cost of wages paid for time lost by the injured worker. Extra cost of overtime work necessitated by the accident. Cost of wages paid supervisors for time required for activities necessitated by the accident. Wage cost caused by decreased output of injured worker after return to work.

Cost of learning period of new worker. Uninsured medical cost borne by the company. Cost of time spent by higher supervision and clerical workers. Miscellaneous costs such as public liability claims, rental equipment, and lost sales. View larger. Request a copy. Download instructor resources. Additional order info. Unique in approach, Industrial Safety and Health Management, 6th Edition combines — in one volume — an exploration of the time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management, a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health, and a variety of solved problems, case studies, and exercises.

It provides reasons, explanations, and illustrations of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health. The new edition focuses on more of the real issues future safety and health practitioners will encounter, such as dealing with enforcement, protecting workers from ergonomic hazards, and accommodating the latest advances in process technology.

Download Sample Chapter. This material is protected under all copyright laws, as they currently exist. No portion of this material may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Download Preface. Comprehensive database of nationwide OSHA inspection statistics. Shows revealing inspection statistics on individual OSHA standards using a searchable database.

This proprietary database is not available on the OSHA website or anywhere else—it is for the exclusive use of students and instructors using this text. Strong fundamentals. Management essentials for the safety professional are covered early on, followed by coverage of the complete spectrum of safety and health hazards. The organization of the text around the most highly cited issues in industrial safety and health allows readers to focus not on thousands of pages of standards but on key information that will allow them to succeed.

Current, relevant content. Holds students' interest with discussions of real-life problems rather than academic theory. The authors add new content every edition to make this one of the most current texts available. Case studies. Numerous case studies demonstrate the rationale behind the standards with example scenarios.

Chapter-opening pie charts. Shows the percent of OSHA citations addressed by the topics covered in that particular chapter. Comprehensive, chapter-end exercises—Over in total. Gives students practice and familiarity with the principles covered. Detailed enforcement statistics. Supplies students with all the technical data and specific information available—at a level of detail not usually found—on government standards and the system of enforcement needed to deal with the most important problems—e.

Discusses and draws from the new and readily available sources of information now accessible to the Safety and Health Manager. Empowers students to readily find their own answers to questions on safety and health management. Extensive use of diagrams and figures. Clearly illustrates concepts that are confusing as detailed wording of federal standards—e. Easy-to-read, informal writing style—Incorporates humorous anecdotes.

Enlivens what is typically considered dull reading, and enlightens students as to the history of controversial issues such as OSHA inspections, remarkable oversights, and the evolution of standards. In addition to its down-to-earth writing style, the text features vivid pictures and real-life case studies—all of which work together to bring the subject matter to life.

Broad appeal. Appeals to both technical and non-technical audiences. Several appendices. Gives students easy access to tables of information commonly used in professional practice. Exercises and quiz questions. Learning is reinforced with hundreds of student exercises and a quiz bank of over questions that instructors can assign, keyed to page numbers of the text. A totally revised chapter on ergonomics Chapter 8. This chapter now provides more insight into this timely and controversial topic, specifically ergonomic hazards and how they can be mitigated.

A new section entitled Ergonomic Risk Analysis identifies the various risk factors associated with ergonomics, uses an analysis tool to quantify several of them, and gives real examples of a variety of problems and their solutions.

An extensively revised database of OSHA citations.