Occupational Safety: Hazard Analysis and Accident Prevention
1) How do you feel that environmental concerns are changing the role of the safety and health professional? Provide some examples of environmental factors that are changing the safety and health profession. How have safety and health managers responded to them?
2) Define the concept of a safety-first corporate culture. What are some ways to tell if an organization has a safety-first corporate culture? How does the concept of globalization factor into the need for a safety-first corporate culture?
3) Explain the hazard analysis methodologies of: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Hazard and Operability Review (HAZOP), Human Error Analysis (HEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA )and Technic of Operation Review (TOR). What do you feel are the most fundamental weaknesses of each of these methodologies? Why?
4) Persuasion can be a very important tool in the role of safety management. How would a safety and health professional persuade workers to take safety seriously? Describe the differences between projective communication and receptive communication.
5) What is a company's role in ethics regarding their organizational practices? Describe some guidelines for determining ethical behavior. Which of these guidelines do you think is important to the safety and health professional's role in ethics?
Reference:
Goetsch, D. L. (2011). Occupational safety and health for technologists, engineers, and managers (7th ed.).Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.