Assignment
UNIT VI & VII DISC ASS TH&S CHAPTER 15, 16, &17. APA style. No plagiarism.
COURSE TEXT BOOK: Manuele, F. A. (2014). Advanced safety management: Focusing on Z10 and serious injury prevention (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
CHAPTER 15, 16, &17
1. If you are a safety professional, share with the class ways in which you participate in design and procurement reviews at your organization, or how you would like to participate.
2. If you are not yet a safety professional, find out if your current organization has safety design reviews, or find examples of recent project designs or purchases that you think would have been made safer through a safety design review process. 100 -200 WRDS
Question 1, What levels of the hierarchy of controls are most applicable to system safety? Are any levels not useful when applying system safety? Provide one or more examples that support your response.
Question 2, Why are system safety principles not used by all safety professionals? Suggest some ways to overcome the obstacles to wider adoption of system safety.
Question 3, Explain why it is important for the safety professional to become knowledgeable and skilled in system safety concepts.
Question 4, From your own experience or through research, select a job that has a high risk for causing workplace musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Discuss how you could use design principles to reduce the risk of injury for this job. What obstacles might prevent your proposed job design from being implemented?
UNIT VII DISC ASS CHAPTERS 18 19 & 20
1. Share with the class any experiences you have had with process improvement methodologies such as Lean Engineering, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, or others.
2. What was the focus of the improvement?
3. Was safety part of the process?
4. If you have no experience with process improvement, discuss how lean concepts could be incorporated where you work or used to work. 100 -200 WRDS
Question 5,
Your organization-a company that manufactures automobile brake pads-is about to introduce lean concepts into its operations in order to be more competitive with foreign manufacturers. The lean project manager does not understand why you, the safety manager, want to be a part of the process. Provide a convincing argument about what you can contribute if you are included.
Question 6, Think about a time when you were required to accomplish a new or nonroutine task at work that had the potential to cause injury or illness. Discuss how a management of change process could be used to reduce the risks. Who would be involved in the process? How could the risks be reduced?
Question 7, Your purchasing department does not want to buy adjustable height work stations for the shipping department, stating that they cost twice as much as nonadjustable ones and that they are not required in the OSHA standards. Provide a risk-based argument as to why the adjustable workstations would be the better choice.
Question 8, From your own experience or through research, select a job that has a high risk of serious injury or fatality. Discuss how the 5S concept could be used to redesign the job and reduce the serious risks.