Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Research the OSHA standards and find a standard that demonstrates an application of prevention through design. Compare the level of injury/illness risk for noncompliance with the standard versus the risk levels for full compliance.

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?

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?

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.

Discuss two innovations that could be used to provide the necessary focus on injury and fatality prevention that you feel should be adopted in your current (or past) organization and discuss how you would proceed in implementing them.

What are some actions that should be taken by a safety practitioner when an organizations safety culture starts to drift into a negative state? Provide examples that illustrate your point.

Why is it important for the safety practitioner to use macro thinking? Provide one or two examples that support your discussion.

Compose a safety policy statement for your current organization (or an organization for which you previously worked), following the guidelines in the course textbook. Be certain it is specific to the organization and not just a series of generic statements.

Review and Reflection Hello Class! For this discussion you can choose which question you respond to. Feel free to respond to both, however only one is required. Please respond to ONE of the following questions: Question A Review and reflect on what you learned in the past 8 weeks. What is the most practical and easily applied lesson you learned? What was the hardest to grasp? Why? Question B Reflect on Agile versus Waterfall methodologies – is Agile always the best choice? Provide an example t...