Chapter 8The Changing Roles of Safety Personnel课件.pptVIP

Occupational Safety Management and Engineering职业安全管理与工程;Sir Humphrey Davy’s miner’s lamp can be considered the first technical advance in accident prevention that was deliberately sought because a hazard urgently needed controlling.;8.1 Safety Laws and Safety Engineers 8.2 Safety Personnel 8.3 “Safety Man” 8.4 Safety Engineer 8.5 Production and Processing Losses 8.6 Growing Areas within Safety;Introduction; Workers’ compensation supposedly would spur increased safety, but it did even less toward that end than did insurance companies and litigation of the times. The growth of the labor laws and safety codes after Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed office increased demands for safety personnel. This demand grew with the involvement of the United States in the Second World War.;8.1 Safety Laws and Safety Engineers;The next great advance took place with the passage of the OSHAct and of the OSHA standards. The standards required employment of safety personnel in both federal and state positions. For federal employment large numbers of engineers were necessary and had to be trained in safety matters.;; At the start of the twenty-first century, new acts and new OSHA standards, OSHA guidelines, and OSHA publications have impacted the safety professional’s role. It is part of the safety professional’s role today to track what OSHAdministration and other governmental agencies are doing in their rulemaking and publications and to provide OSHA and others with feedback to influence these processes as a stakeholder. The internet makes this very feasible, and governmental agencies maintain on-line information systems which are available to anyone. The present-day safety professional must be engaged in governmental activities which ultimately impact the profession and industry in general.; Whoever is designated in a plant with diversified activities must be a generalist, knowledgeable in a wide range of technical, legal, and administrative activities. Because of the