Healthcare organizations must determine the need and placement of plumbed eye wash stations to ensure staff safety when working with hazardous chemicals. OSHA regulations require suitable facilities for flushing eyes and bodies be provided where exposures may occur, while ANSI standards provide more specific guidelines on equipment location within 10 seconds of hazards. Organizations should conduct risk assessments of chemical hazards and current equipment to document compliance with regulations that are enforced by surveyors during inspections.
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- An overview of security events, attacks, and incidents in the retail industry
- Attack trends over Black Friday-Cyber Monday, including 2015 data
- Who the attackers are, where the attacks are happening and what types of attacks are most commonly used
- The number of records compromised, and where the weak points are in retailer networks
- How cyber criminals are responding to the introduction of chip cards
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OSH 4301, Industrial Hygiene 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
7. Evaluate types of hazard controls.
7.1 Discuss the use of elimination/substitution for controlling occupational hazards.
7.2 Discuss the use of engineering controls for occupational hazards.
7.3 Discuss the use of administrative controls for occupational hazards.
Reading Assignment
To access the following resources, click on the links below:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Chemical hazards and toxic substances: Controlling
exposures. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardoustoxicsubstances/control.html
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides].
Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-
10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). OSHA technical manual—Section III: Chapter 3
Ventilation Investigation. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_3.html
Unit Lesson
The last of the four tenets of industrial hygiene that we will study is control. The first three tenets—
anticipation, recognition, and evaluation—identify hazards and the level of risk for each hazard. Controls then
are used to reduce the risk associated with the hazards to an acceptable level. Risk assessment is a valuable
tool in prioritizing expenditures for control methods. Controls will be implemented first for hazards with the
highest level of risk.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) established a hierarchy of controls for
occupational hazards. It illustrates OSHA’s preferred approach for hazard control. As summarized in the
diagram below, the Hierarchy of Controls includes elimination/substitution, engineering controls,
administrative controls (including work practices), and personal protective equipment (PPE).
In looking at protection from occupational hazards, the most effective method is to prevent an exposure from
occurring in the first place; however, this is not always possible in occupational settings. Therefore, the next
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
Learning Activity
7.1
Unit VII Lesson
Article: “Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides]”
Unit VII Assessment
7.2
Unit VII Lesson
Unit VII Assessment
7.3
Unit VII Lesson
Article: “Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides]”
Unit VII Assessment
UNIT VII STUDY GUIDE
Hazard Controls
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardoustoxicsubstances/control.html
https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_3.html
OSH 4301, Industrial Hygiene 2
UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title
priority is to prevent harm to exposed individuals. Finally, if harm occurs ...
C H A P T E R 1 3Safety and Health at WorkTRAINING FOR SA.docxRAHUL126667
C H A P T E R 1 3
Safety and Health at Work
TRAINING FOR SAFETY
As the HR manager of a large construction company, your workers’ health and safety is of paramount concern. Last
week, you reported an incidence rate of 7.5 accidents per 100 employees to the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA). When you compared these numbers to last year, you found the number had significantly
increased, as it was 4.2. This is concerning, because you know an unsafe workplace is not only bad for employees
and bad for business, but it could result in fines from OSHA. You ask your operations managers to meet with you
about the situation. When you bring this to his attention, he doesn’t seem at all concerned about the almost
double increase in accidents over the last year. He says the increase in accidents is a result of scaffolding falling dur-
ing a building project where several workers were hurt. He says this one accident skewed the numbers. He men-
tions that the supervisor responsible for the scaffolding had been let go six months ago for other reasons, and he
assures you that there is no reason to be concerned. A few weeks after this conversation, two of your workers
spend time in the hospital because of a falling scaffolding injury. Again, you approach the operations manager and
he assures you that those employees were just new and he will implement proper procedures. You know the incid-
ent will result in another high incident percentage, even if there isn’t another accident the rest of the year. You con-
sider your options.
You look back over ten years of accident reports and find there are three areas for which your company seems
to have 90 percent of all accidents. You decide you will develop a training program to address these safety issues in
your workplace. You refer to your HRM textbook for tips on how to prepare and communicate this training to your
employees. When you present this option to your operations manager, he says that employees don’t have the time
to take from their jobs to go through this training and suggests you just let it go. You are prepared for this re-
sponse, and you give him the dollar figure of money lost owing to worker injury in your organization. This gets his
attention, especially when you compare it to the small cost of doing a two-hour training for all employees. Both of
you check your Outlook schedules to find the best day of the week to schedule the training, for minimum impact
on employees’ work.
Workplace Safety and Health Introduction
The author introduces the chapter on workplace safety and health.
1. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH LAWS
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S
1. Be able to explain OSHA laws.
2. Understand right-to-know laws.
Workplace safety is the responsibility of everyone in the organization. HR professionals and managers,
however, play a large role in developing standards, making sure safety and health laws are followed,
and tracking workplace accidents ...
August 2015 ComplianceSigns Connection Workplace Safety NewsletterComplianceSigns, LLC
Top Safety News for August 2015, including:
• OSHA delays Confined Spaces in Construction enforcement to October
• Guidance issued on Hazcom enforcement
• OSHA Fines total $2.9 million in July
• NIOSH offers easy, effective way to reduce silica dust exposure
• Safety Tip: Reduce arc flash hazards
BOS 4025, OSHA Standards 1
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the ability to locate and interpret the OSHA standards in
Subparts G-I.
2. Define key terms common to the standards covered in this module.
3. Apply the OSHA standards in Subparts G-I to real-world situations.
Unit Lesson
The OSHA standards can be loosely divided into two categories: safety
standards and health standards. The difference is that safety standards
typically prevent injury through design specifications, and health standards
prevent illness that may develop from long-term exposure to specific hazards.
In general, compliance with safety standards is easier than health; we can
install guardrails to prevent falling or saw blade guards to prevent cuts. Health
standards are often based on research into long-term effects of exposure to a
hazard (sometimes called a “stressor” in the health world). Determining
compliance may involve measurements or air sampling and some applied
science to develop controls. Many safety professionals have become proficient
in analyzing health hazards, and some organizations enlist the help of a trained
industrial hygienist. Regardless of who does the measurements, the final
responsibility for OSHA compliance will likely fall to the safety professionals.
An industrial hygienist prepares to test a water sample for contaminants (McGinley, 2006)
Reading
Assignment
See below to access the
required reading material
for this unit.
Supplemental
Reading
See information below.
Learning Activities
(Non-Graded)
See information below.
Key Terms
1. Air purifying
respirator
2. Atmosphere-
supplying respirator
3. Audiometric testing
program
4. Baseline audiogram
5. Dry spray booth
6. Filtering facepiece
7. Fit test
8. Flashpoint
9. Hearing protector
attenuation
10. Monitoring
11. Negative pressure
respirator
12. Safety can
13. Self-contained
breathing apparatus
(SCUBA)
14. Standard threshold
shift
15. Supplied-air
respirator
UNIT III STUDY GUIDE
Subparts G–I: Environmental Controls, Hazardous
Materials, and Personal Protective Equipment
BOS 4025, OSHA Standards 2
In Unit I, we focused on a number of safety hazards common to most
workplaces. In this unit, we add some health standards, as well as some
standards that combine both safety and health issues. The title of Subpart G,
Occupational Health and Environmental Control, should be a clear indication of
what we can expect to encounter. Note that “environmental control” has
nothing to do with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or other
environmental organizations. Instead, it refers to the workplace environment
and includes sections on ventilation, occupational noise control, and non-
ionizing radiation.
The first section of the ventilation standard provides specifications and
requirements for exhaust hoods and systems ...
Careful analysis of potential hazards can assist in the mitigation.docxtidwellveronique
Careful analysis of potential hazards can assist in the mitigation of future accidents. Two approaches to hazard analysis include the preliminary hazard analysis and the detailed hazard analysis. Both methods are used to help identify and prioritize the potential hazards at a job site that can end in the possibility of a severe accident. A preliminary hazard analysis is conducted to identify potential hazards and prioritize them according to (1) the likelihood of an accident or injury from a hazard and (2) the severity of an injury, illness or property damage that may result if the hazard had caused the accident (Goetsch, 2010). In contrast, a detailed hazard analysis involves the application of analytical, inductive, and deductive methods (Goetsch, 2010).
Expertise and reasoning can be two useful applications when performing a hazard analysis. Typically a preliminary hazard analysis along with previous expertise would be sufficient in determining possible job site hazards and developing methods to avoid them. If needed, more detailed methods can be used for conducting detailed analysis. They are:
failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA),
hazard and operability review (HAZOP),
technic of operations review (TOR),
human error analysis (HEA), and
fault tree analysis (FTA).
Failure mode and effects analysis is a formal step-by-step analytical method used to analyze complex engineering systems. The hazard and operability review is an analysis method that allows problems to be identified even before a body of experience has been developed for a given process or system (Goetsch, 2010). The technique of operations review is a method that allows supervisors and employees to work together to analyze workplace accidents and incidents. The human error analysis basically predicts that accidents are caused by human errors while the fault tree analysis visually displays the hazard analysis in detail.
Hazard analysis is extremely important in the construction industry. It is very important to analyze the probability of any types of accidents on-site and also to
Reading Assignment
Chapter 8:
Job Safety and Hazard Analysis
Chapter 9:
Accident Investigation, Record Keeping, and Reporting
Learning Activities (Non-Graded)
See information below
Key Terms
1. Accident investigation
2. Accident report
3. Emergency procedures
4. Faultfinding
5. Frequency
6. Hazard analysis
7. Hazard and operability review
8. Human error analysis
9. Immediacy
10. Principal’s office syndrome
11. Probability
12. Risk analysis
13. Technic of operations review
14. Witnesses
Coordinate medical response in the event of an accident. In the case of an accident, the first thing management and supervisors need to do is implement their emergency plan. Each accident should be treated as if it were a larger accident. The main points to ultimately cover in an accident investigation are: who, what, when, where, why, and how. In coordinating the accident inve ...
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Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VIII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
7. Evaluate types of hazard controls.
7.1 Discuss the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for controlling occupational hazards.
Reading Assignment
To access the following resources click the links below:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Personal protective equipment. Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.132). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9777
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.134). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=12716&p_table=STANDARDS
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.133). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_t
ext_version=FALSE
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.135). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9785
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Safety and health regulations for contruction:
Personal protective and life saving equipment (Standard No. 1926.100). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10663
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
Learning Activity
7.1
Unit VIII Lesson
Article: “Personal protective equipment”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.132)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.133)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.134)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.135)”
Article: “Safety and health regulations for contruction: Personal protective and
life saving equipment (Standard No. 1926.100)”
Unit VIII Essay
UNIT VIII STUDY GUIDE
Hazard Controls – Personal
Protective Equipment
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9777
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=12716&p_table=STANDARDS
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_text_version=FALSE
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_text_versi ...
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“This material was produced under the grant SH-20839-SHO from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.”
Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you will:
Identify how workplace injuries or illnesses can affect your everyday life.
Identify common symptoms, aches/pains, illnesses and injuries that are associated with your work.
Identify and recognize the exposures and hazards linked to work-related illnesses and injuries.
Develop solutions and strategies to address these identified hazards.
CHEMICAL & DUST HAZARDS
(cleaning products, pesticides, asbestos, etc.)
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
(mold, insects/pests, communicable diseases, etc.)
ERGONOMIC HAZARDS
(repetition, lifting, awkward postures, etc.)
WORK ORGANIZATION HAZARDS
Things that cause STRESS!
SAFETY HAZARDS
(slips, trips and falls, faulty equipment, etc.)
PHYSICAL HAZARDS
(noise, temperature extremes, radiation, etc.)
3
Hierarchy of Controls
Requires a physical change to the workplace
Requires worker to wear something
Elimination/Substitution
Requires worker or employer to do something
Most Effective
Least Effective
These are referred to as the hierarchy of controls, how you prevent or control a hazard:
Elimination/Substitution: The main goal for any fix to a hazard or exposure is to eliminate it altogether or substitute a product or method of doing the work to a less hazardous alternative. (e.g. green cleaning products)
4
CONTROLS: Engineering
CONTROL AT THE SOURCE!
Limits the hazard but doesn’t entirely remove it.
Local Exhaust
Other Examples:
Mechanical Guards
Wet Methods for Dust
Enclosures/Isolation
Dilution Ventilation
Proper equipment
Re-designed Tools
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The basic concept behind engineering controls is that, to the extent feasible, the work environment and the job itself should be designed to eliminate hazards or reduce exposure to hazards. While this approach is called engineering controls, it does not necessarily mean that an engineer is required to design the control. Engineering controls are the "first line of defense" against injury/illness, because they have the potential to completely eliminate a hazard, and do not rely on human behavior to be effective. For instance, rather than require employees to wear respiratory protection which must be monitored, inspected, trained, managed, it's much more effective to install a ventilation system that does not require any of those management activities or, better yet, find an alternative substitute that is less hazardous.
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OSH 4301, Industrial Hygiene 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
7. Evaluate types of hazard controls.
7.1 Discuss the use of elimination/substitution for controlling occupational hazards.
7.2 Discuss the use of engineering controls for occupational hazards.
7.3 Discuss the use of administrative controls for occupational hazards.
Reading Assignment
To access the following resources, click on the links below:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Chemical hazards and toxic substances: Controlling
exposures. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardoustoxicsubstances/control.html
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides].
Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-
10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). OSHA technical manual—Section III: Chapter 3
Ventilation Investigation. Retrieved from https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_3.html
Unit Lesson
The last of the four tenets of industrial hygiene that we will study is control. The first three tenets—
anticipation, recognition, and evaluation—identify hazards and the level of risk for each hazard. Controls then
are used to reduce the risk associated with the hazards to an acceptable level. Risk assessment is a valuable
tool in prioritizing expenditures for control methods. Controls will be implemented first for hazards with the
highest level of risk.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) established a hierarchy of controls for
occupational hazards. It illustrates OSHA’s preferred approach for hazard control. As summarized in the
diagram below, the Hierarchy of Controls includes elimination/substitution, engineering controls,
administrative controls (including work practices), and personal protective equipment (PPE).
In looking at protection from occupational hazards, the most effective method is to prevent an exposure from
occurring in the first place; however, this is not always possible in occupational settings. Therefore, the next
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
Learning Activity
7.1
Unit VII Lesson
Article: “Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides]”
Unit VII Assessment
7.2
Unit VII Lesson
Unit VII Assessment
7.3
Unit VII Lesson
Article: “Basic hazard awareness [PowerPoint slides]”
Unit VII Assessment
UNIT VII STUDY GUIDE
Hazard Controls
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hazardoustoxicsubstances/control.html
https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy10/sh-20839-10/basic_hazard_awareness.pptx
https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_3.html
OSH 4301, Industrial Hygiene 2
UNIT x STUDY GUIDE
Title
priority is to prevent harm to exposed individuals. Finally, if harm occurs ...
C H A P T E R 1 3Safety and Health at WorkTRAINING FOR SA.docxRAHUL126667
C H A P T E R 1 3
Safety and Health at Work
TRAINING FOR SAFETY
As the HR manager of a large construction company, your workers’ health and safety is of paramount concern. Last
week, you reported an incidence rate of 7.5 accidents per 100 employees to the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA). When you compared these numbers to last year, you found the number had significantly
increased, as it was 4.2. This is concerning, because you know an unsafe workplace is not only bad for employees
and bad for business, but it could result in fines from OSHA. You ask your operations managers to meet with you
about the situation. When you bring this to his attention, he doesn’t seem at all concerned about the almost
double increase in accidents over the last year. He says the increase in accidents is a result of scaffolding falling dur-
ing a building project where several workers were hurt. He says this one accident skewed the numbers. He men-
tions that the supervisor responsible for the scaffolding had been let go six months ago for other reasons, and he
assures you that there is no reason to be concerned. A few weeks after this conversation, two of your workers
spend time in the hospital because of a falling scaffolding injury. Again, you approach the operations manager and
he assures you that those employees were just new and he will implement proper procedures. You know the incid-
ent will result in another high incident percentage, even if there isn’t another accident the rest of the year. You con-
sider your options.
You look back over ten years of accident reports and find there are three areas for which your company seems
to have 90 percent of all accidents. You decide you will develop a training program to address these safety issues in
your workplace. You refer to your HRM textbook for tips on how to prepare and communicate this training to your
employees. When you present this option to your operations manager, he says that employees don’t have the time
to take from their jobs to go through this training and suggests you just let it go. You are prepared for this re-
sponse, and you give him the dollar figure of money lost owing to worker injury in your organization. This gets his
attention, especially when you compare it to the small cost of doing a two-hour training for all employees. Both of
you check your Outlook schedules to find the best day of the week to schedule the training, for minimum impact
on employees’ work.
Workplace Safety and Health Introduction
The author introduces the chapter on workplace safety and health.
1. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH LAWS
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S
1. Be able to explain OSHA laws.
2. Understand right-to-know laws.
Workplace safety is the responsibility of everyone in the organization. HR professionals and managers,
however, play a large role in developing standards, making sure safety and health laws are followed,
and tracking workplace accidents ...
August 2015 ComplianceSigns Connection Workplace Safety NewsletterComplianceSigns, LLC
Top Safety News for August 2015, including:
• OSHA delays Confined Spaces in Construction enforcement to October
• Guidance issued on Hazcom enforcement
• OSHA Fines total $2.9 million in July
• NIOSH offers easy, effective way to reduce silica dust exposure
• Safety Tip: Reduce arc flash hazards
BOS 4025, OSHA Standards 1
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the ability to locate and interpret the OSHA standards in
Subparts G-I.
2. Define key terms common to the standards covered in this module.
3. Apply the OSHA standards in Subparts G-I to real-world situations.
Unit Lesson
The OSHA standards can be loosely divided into two categories: safety
standards and health standards. The difference is that safety standards
typically prevent injury through design specifications, and health standards
prevent illness that may develop from long-term exposure to specific hazards.
In general, compliance with safety standards is easier than health; we can
install guardrails to prevent falling or saw blade guards to prevent cuts. Health
standards are often based on research into long-term effects of exposure to a
hazard (sometimes called a “stressor” in the health world). Determining
compliance may involve measurements or air sampling and some applied
science to develop controls. Many safety professionals have become proficient
in analyzing health hazards, and some organizations enlist the help of a trained
industrial hygienist. Regardless of who does the measurements, the final
responsibility for OSHA compliance will likely fall to the safety professionals.
An industrial hygienist prepares to test a water sample for contaminants (McGinley, 2006)
Reading
Assignment
See below to access the
required reading material
for this unit.
Supplemental
Reading
See information below.
Learning Activities
(Non-Graded)
See information below.
Key Terms
1. Air purifying
respirator
2. Atmosphere-
supplying respirator
3. Audiometric testing
program
4. Baseline audiogram
5. Dry spray booth
6. Filtering facepiece
7. Fit test
8. Flashpoint
9. Hearing protector
attenuation
10. Monitoring
11. Negative pressure
respirator
12. Safety can
13. Self-contained
breathing apparatus
(SCUBA)
14. Standard threshold
shift
15. Supplied-air
respirator
UNIT III STUDY GUIDE
Subparts G–I: Environmental Controls, Hazardous
Materials, and Personal Protective Equipment
BOS 4025, OSHA Standards 2
In Unit I, we focused on a number of safety hazards common to most
workplaces. In this unit, we add some health standards, as well as some
standards that combine both safety and health issues. The title of Subpart G,
Occupational Health and Environmental Control, should be a clear indication of
what we can expect to encounter. Note that “environmental control” has
nothing to do with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or other
environmental organizations. Instead, it refers to the workplace environment
and includes sections on ventilation, occupational noise control, and non-
ionizing radiation.
The first section of the ventilation standard provides specifications and
requirements for exhaust hoods and systems ...
Careful analysis of potential hazards can assist in the mitigation.docxtidwellveronique
Careful analysis of potential hazards can assist in the mitigation of future accidents. Two approaches to hazard analysis include the preliminary hazard analysis and the detailed hazard analysis. Both methods are used to help identify and prioritize the potential hazards at a job site that can end in the possibility of a severe accident. A preliminary hazard analysis is conducted to identify potential hazards and prioritize them according to (1) the likelihood of an accident or injury from a hazard and (2) the severity of an injury, illness or property damage that may result if the hazard had caused the accident (Goetsch, 2010). In contrast, a detailed hazard analysis involves the application of analytical, inductive, and deductive methods (Goetsch, 2010).
Expertise and reasoning can be two useful applications when performing a hazard analysis. Typically a preliminary hazard analysis along with previous expertise would be sufficient in determining possible job site hazards and developing methods to avoid them. If needed, more detailed methods can be used for conducting detailed analysis. They are:
failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA),
hazard and operability review (HAZOP),
technic of operations review (TOR),
human error analysis (HEA), and
fault tree analysis (FTA).
Failure mode and effects analysis is a formal step-by-step analytical method used to analyze complex engineering systems. The hazard and operability review is an analysis method that allows problems to be identified even before a body of experience has been developed for a given process or system (Goetsch, 2010). The technique of operations review is a method that allows supervisors and employees to work together to analyze workplace accidents and incidents. The human error analysis basically predicts that accidents are caused by human errors while the fault tree analysis visually displays the hazard analysis in detail.
Hazard analysis is extremely important in the construction industry. It is very important to analyze the probability of any types of accidents on-site and also to
Reading Assignment
Chapter 8:
Job Safety and Hazard Analysis
Chapter 9:
Accident Investigation, Record Keeping, and Reporting
Learning Activities (Non-Graded)
See information below
Key Terms
1. Accident investigation
2. Accident report
3. Emergency procedures
4. Faultfinding
5. Frequency
6. Hazard analysis
7. Hazard and operability review
8. Human error analysis
9. Immediacy
10. Principal’s office syndrome
11. Probability
12. Risk analysis
13. Technic of operations review
14. Witnesses
Coordinate medical response in the event of an accident. In the case of an accident, the first thing management and supervisors need to do is implement their emergency plan. Each accident should be treated as if it were a larger accident. The main points to ultimately cover in an accident investigation are: who, what, when, where, why, and how. In coordinating the accident inve ...
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Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VIII
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
7. Evaluate types of hazard controls.
7.1 Discuss the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for controlling occupational hazards.
Reading Assignment
To access the following resources click the links below:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Personal protective equipment. Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.132). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9777
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.134). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=12716&p_table=STANDARDS
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.133). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_t
ext_version=FALSE
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Occupational safety and health standards: Personal
protective equipment (Standard No. 1910.135). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9785
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1970). Safety and health regulations for contruction:
Personal protective and life saving equipment (Standard No. 1926.100). Retrieved from
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10663
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes
Learning Activity
7.1
Unit VIII Lesson
Article: “Personal protective equipment”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.132)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.133)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.134)”
Article: “Occupational safety and health standards: Personal protective
equipment (Standard No. 1910.135)”
Article: “Safety and health regulations for contruction: Personal protective and
life saving equipment (Standard No. 1926.100)”
Unit VIII Essay
UNIT VIII STUDY GUIDE
Hazard Controls – Personal
Protective Equipment
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9777
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=12716&p_table=STANDARDS
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_text_version=FALSE
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9778&p_text_versi ...
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Basic Hazard Awareness
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Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you will:
Identify how workplace injuries or illnesses can affect your everyday life.
Identify common symptoms, aches/pains, illnesses and injuries that are associated with your work.
Identify and recognize the exposures and hazards linked to work-related illnesses and injuries.
Develop solutions and strategies to address these identified hazards.
CHEMICAL & DUST HAZARDS
(cleaning products, pesticides, asbestos, etc.)
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
(mold, insects/pests, communicable diseases, etc.)
ERGONOMIC HAZARDS
(repetition, lifting, awkward postures, etc.)
WORK ORGANIZATION HAZARDS
Things that cause STRESS!
SAFETY HAZARDS
(slips, trips and falls, faulty equipment, etc.)
PHYSICAL HAZARDS
(noise, temperature extremes, radiation, etc.)
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Hierarchy of Controls
Requires a physical change to the workplace
Requires worker to wear something
Elimination/Substitution
Requires worker or employer to do something
Most Effective
Least Effective
These are referred to as the hierarchy of controls, how you prevent or control a hazard:
Elimination/Substitution: The main goal for any fix to a hazard or exposure is to eliminate it altogether or substitute a product or method of doing the work to a less hazardous alternative. (e.g. green cleaning products)
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CONTROLS: Engineering
CONTROL AT THE SOURCE!
Limits the hazard but doesn’t entirely remove it.
Local Exhaust
Other Examples:
Mechanical Guards
Wet Methods for Dust
Enclosures/Isolation
Dilution Ventilation
Proper equipment
Re-designed Tools
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The basic concept behind engineering controls is that, to the extent feasible, the work environment and the job itself should be designed to eliminate hazards or reduce exposure to hazards. While this approach is called engineering controls, it does not necessarily mean that an engineer is required to design the control. Engineering controls are the "first line of defense" against injury/illness, because they have the potential to completely eliminate a hazard, and do not rely on human behavior to be effective. For instance, rather than require employees to wear respiratory protection which must be monitored, inspected, trained, managed, it's much more effective to install a ventilation system that does not require any of those management activities or, better yet, find an alternative substitute that is less hazardous.
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Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response protocols, often referred to as HAZWOPER, are a set
of standards for dealing
with projects involving
the cleanup of toxic waste. HAZWOPER requires companies to follow a
strict set of health and safety requirements when responding to spillage emergencies or dealing with toxic cleanups.
Understanding the HAZWOPER Standard
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response protocols, often referred to as HAZWOPER, are a set
of standards for dealing
with projects involving
the cleanup of toxic waste. HAZWOPER requires companies to follow a strict set of health and safety requirements when responding to spillage emergencies or dealing with toxic cleanups.
Your Guide To Australian PPE Standards & RequirementsGarment Printing
Developing Australian Standards for PPE is a long and exhaustive process and comes into place after a lot of combined effort on the part of the industry and the regulators. Experts and testing centres indulge in a lot of testing using the appropriate testing equipment to gather the required data.
Do you feel like there are more regulatory and accrediting surveys being conducted than ever before? Have you been the host of a CMS survey…or two… in the last several years? Do you feel like the surveys are becoming more onerous or prescriptive?
Successfully Tackling the First Two Hours of a Cms Surveycourtemanche
CMS surveys can create a highly stressful situation for any organization; however, following the tips provided here, you can mitigate much of that stress.
Closing the Gap Toward a Culture of Safetycourtemanche
In its landmark 1999 publication, To Err Is Human, the Institute of Medicine defined patient safety as “freedom from accidental injury.” In 1999, estimated deaths from medical errors in United States hospitals were 98,000 per year thus the expectation to be free from accidental injury was more than a reasonable expectation for those accessing the health care system.
October 24, 2011 CMS published changes to many of the hospital Conditions of Participation (CoP) requirements. In March 2012, CMs provided an “Advanced Copy” in a Transmittal of the new Appendix A. Although no changes were made to the CMS CoP under “Patient Rights-Advance Directives” §489.102, significant changes were made to the “Interpretive Guidelines” and “Survey Procedures.” CMS took the opportunity to expand patient’s rights related to advance directives, (AD). The focus of the changes to advance directives centered on the incapacitated patient and the designation of a representative for decisions related to healthcare matters. The Interpretive Guidelines indicate that the decision maker need not be the same person as the designated representative. Additionally, if the patient does not have an AD designating a “representative for decision making,” the hospital follows state rules for designation of a decision maker, i.e. spouse, parents, children, siblings, etc.
As accredited organizations develop relationships with other independent health care entities in their communities, it is important to remember that law and regulation requirements must be addressed. One particular area of risk is tissue management.
The Changes with Global Hazard Communication: “Don’t Miss the Date!”courtemanche
In March 2012, OSHA revised its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)( FR77 FR 17574) to align with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals. OSHA created and distributed Briefing Updates in order to provide ample time for the industry to address education and product manufacturers to become compliant with new label redesign. Two key dates are approaching: December 1, 2013 for completion of employee education and June 1, 2015 for relabeling and the introduction of pictograms to provide direction regarding employee use and safety.
How healthcare leaders and staff communicate with patients will influence patient outcomes. Communication delivery can promote open communication paths with healthcare staff and patients.
It is important to understand Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) and how serious the consequences to the patient can be, if not treated timely and appropriately.
As accredited organizations develop relationships with other independent health care entities in their communities, it is important to remember that law and regulation requirements must be addressed. One particular area of risk is tissue management.
1. “To Plumb or Not to Plumb, that is the Question”
The debate continues with eye wash stations
The questions and concerns continue! Healthcare organizations struggle with the questions of
“where to place” and “if we really need” plumbed eye wash stations. The basic premise of safety
for the staff utilizing hazardous chemicals or materials should drive organizations to decide on
the need and placement of eye wash stations. To understand the regulatory requirements, it is
necessary to consider OSHA, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and where
surveyors are citing RFIs.
OSHA's general regulation is applicable to all facilities. Regarding the installation of an
emergency shower or eye wash station equipment as a form of first aid as directed under 29 CFR
1910.151(c). It states that:
"Where the eyes or body of any person may be exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable
facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body shall be provided within the work
area for immediate emergency use."
The standard states an eyewash and/or safety shower would be required where an employee's
eyes or body could be exposed to injurious corrosive materials. If none of the materials used in
this work area is an injurious corrosive [chemical] (as indicated by the Material Safety Data
Sheet (MSDS) for each product), then an emergency eyewash or shower would not be required
pursuant to 1910.151(c).
Since the OSHA regulations do not specify minimum operating requirements or installation set-
up requirements, the ANSI developed the ANSI standard Z358.1-1990. While it doesn't have the
full force of an OSHA regulation, the standard covers situations when employees are exposed to
hazardous materials. ANSI's definition of "hazardous material" would include caustics, as well as
additional substances and compounds that have the capability of producing adverse effects on the
health and safety of humans.
The most recent ANSI standard (2009 version of ANSI-Z358) helps the user select and install
emergency equipment to meet OSHA requirements. An excerpt indicates:
Eye wash station shall be located in an area that requires no more than 10 seconds to
reach. *Consult a medical professional to determine the appropriate distance for harsh
acids and caustics (high hazard=closer distance)
The location of the eye wash station shall be in a well-lit area and identified with a sign
Eye wash stations shall be on the same level as the hazard
Considering the direction of the OSHA and ANSI, organizations should conduct a detailed risk
assessment to determine location of hazardous materials, the requirements outlined in the MSDS
2. of products and the current placement of plumbed eye wash stations and portable flush bottles. It
is important to document the risk assessment as well as follow-up actions taken.
TJC Surveyors have been scoring eye wash stations under the Environment of Care standards
related to safety, risk assessment and hazardous materials management. Surveyors could score
under EC.02.02.01, related to hazardous materials; EC.03.01.01 related to staff and LIPs being
familiar with their roles and responsibilities relative to the environment of care; or EC.04.01.01,
EP1 related to monitoring conditions in the environment. These findings also tie back to CMS’
Physical Environment Condition of Participation 482.41(c)(2) in terms of maintaining a safe
environment.
Healthcare organizations are also encouraged to consider any regulatory expectations that their
individual State may require while completing a risk assessment of current eye wash locations
and corrosive materials that may impact the decision-making of whether “to plumb or not to
plumb.”
Sources: OSHA 1910.151(c). osha.gov
ANSI/ISEA Z358.1-2009
CMS Conditions of Participation SOM-A: 482.41 (c) (2)-Physical Environment. March 23,
2012.
The Joint Commission Hospital Manual 2013
The Bradley Corporation: A Guide to the ANSI Z358.1-2009 Standard for Emergency
Eyewashes and Shower Equipment, 2010