1. Explain the difference between a proactive and a reactive approach to professional ethics.
Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
2. Discuss some reasons why an organization's emergency planning efforts should include fires and explosions on neighboring properties.
3. Explain the distinction between safety culture and safety climate.
4. Discuss some potential roadblocks to establishing an effective safety culture in an organization.
5. One of the continuous improvement loops used in an OSH Management Systems is an annual management review of system effectiveness. Discuss one other safety management process that could be considered a continuous improvement loop.
6. Imagine that a recent college graduate is hired for an industrial hygiene position. After completing her first monitoring assignment, she writes a report. The senior industrial hygienist she works for reviews the report and annotates many changes. Some relate to recommendations in the draft, where the senior IH changes language stating that certain controls "shall" be implemented to less demanding words such as "could" and "recommended." The new IH is offended by all the changes and considers her professionalism violated because of not being allowed to work autonomously. Discuss the issues in terms of professional ethics.
7. Research the Internet for information on safety management systems and standards. Compare and contrast the major provisions of three or four systems. What elements appear to be common to most systems? Discuss how an organization could determine which system or standard would be the best to use.