ROLES AND PROFESSIONAL

CERTIFICATIONS FOR SAFETY AND

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

GROUP 1| 5ChE-C January 20, 2014

Dolores|Feleo|Taruc

TOPICS Modern Safety and Health Teams

Safety and Health Manager

Engineers and Safety

Industrial Hygienist

Health Physicist

Occupational Physician

Occupational Health Nurse

Risk Manager

Certification of Safety and Health Professionals

Emerging Role of Safety Professionals

Modern Safety and Health Teams

stress explosives laws,

standards and codes

radiation AIDS product safety

and liability

ergonomics ethics automation

workers’ compensation

And many others.

Issues that concern modern safety and

health managers

Modern Safety and Health Teams

Safety and Health Manager

Safety Engineer

Environmental Engineer

Industrial Hygienist

Health Physicist

Occupational Health Nurse

Occupational Physician

Safety and Health Manager

•The most important member of the safety and health team

•Position in the company’s hierarchy indicates company’s commitment and priorities job is complex and diverse Role: full-time or are in addition to other duties Line or staff authority

Difference between line and staff position

Line authority - the safety and health manager has authority over and supervises certain employees [other safety and health personnel].

Staff authority - the safety and health manager is the staff person responsible for a certain function, but he or she has no line authority over others involved with that function.

Problems in attempting to implement programs

• Lack of commitment: Safety and health professional should be prepared to confront a less than wholehearted commitment from top management in some companies.

• Production versus safety: At times, a safety or health measure will be viewed by some as interfering with productivity.

Use competitiveness to gain commitment to safety and health

• The way to gain company wide commitment to safety and health is to convey the message that a safe and healthy workplace is the best way to improve productivity, cost, quality, image, service, and response time.

• [The way not to gain a company wide commitment to safety and health is to quote government regulations as a reason.]

College majors that can lead to a careers as a safety and health manager

• Universities, colleges, and community colleges across the country have responded to the need for formal education for safety and health managers as well as other safety and health personnel.

Associate degrees

• Industrial safety

• Occupational safety

• Environmental technology

• Safety and health management

• Industrial hygiene

Baccalaureate degrees

• Industrial safety and health

• Occupational safety management

• Industrial hygiene

Helpful Agencies for Safety and Health Managers

• Certification Boards

• Professional Societies

• Scientific Standards and Testing Organizations

• Trade Associations

ENGINEERS and SAFETY

ENGINEERS

• can make a significant contribution to safety

• correspondingly, they can cause, inadvertently or through incompetence, accidents that result in serious injury and property damage.

ENGINEERS and SAFETY

ENGINEERS

• opportunity for both good and bad comes during the design process

ENGINEERS INVOLVED IN DESIGN

Aerospace Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Industrial Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

DESIGN PROCESS

The design process is a plan of action for reaching a goal. The plan, sometimes labeled problem-solving strategy, is used by engineers, designers, drafters, scientists, technologists, and a multitude of professionals.

-Professor William S. Chalk

DESIGN PROCESS • This involves gathering information, considering constraints,

reviewing specifications, and combining all of these into a clear and concise description of the problem

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

• combine or synthesize systematic, scientific procedures with creative techniques to develop initial solutions to the problem identified in Step 1

SYNTHESIS

• All potential solutions developed in the previous step are subjected to scientific analysis and careful evaluation ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION

• Engineering drawings, detailed calculations, and written specifications are prepared. It is common to revise the design at this point based on feedback from different reviewers

DOCUMENT AND COMMUNICATE

• Shop or detail drawings are developed, and the design is produced, usually as a prototype. The product is then produced and delivered.

PRODUCE AND DELIVER

Modern Safety and Health Teams

Safety and Health Manager

Safety Engineer

Environmental Engineer

Industrial Hygienist

Health Physicist

Occupational Health Nurse

Occupational Physician

• person responsible for the traditional aspects of the safety program, such as preventing mechanical injuries; falls, impact, and acceleration injuries; heat and temperature injuries; electrical accidents; fire-related accidents; and so on

SAFETY ENGINEER

Persons with academic credentials in areas other than engineering degrees should be encouraged to seek such positions. These other educational disciplines include:

• industrial technology

• industrial engineering technology

• manufacturing technology

• engineering technology

• industrial management

• industrial safety technology

SAFETY ENGINEER

Industrial engineers are most likely to work as safety engineers.

– knowledge of industrial systems can make them valuable members of a design team, particularly one that designs industrial systems and technologies.

– helping design job and plant layouts for both efficiency and safety.

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS and SAFETY

• Environmental engineering science is a relatively new field in which the application of scientific and engineering principles is used to protect and preserve human health and well being of the environment.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS and SAFETY

It embraces the broad field of the general environment including:

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS and SAFETY

Air &Water Quality

Solid and Hazardous

Wastes

Water Resources and Management

Radiological Health

Environmental biology and chemistry

Systems ecology

Water & waste-water treatment

• Increasingly, industrial companies are seeking chemical engineers to fill the industrial hygiene role on the safety and health team.

• Modern chemical engineers, who are also called process engineers, are concerned with all the physical and chemical changes of matter to produce a product economically or result that is useful to mankind.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERS and SAFETY

• Such a broad background has made the chemical engineer extremely versatile and capable of working in a wide variety of industries:

CHEMICAL ENGINEERS and SAFETY

Chemical Petroleum Aerospace

Nuclear Materials Microelectr

onics

Sanitation Food

Processing Computer

Technology

“science and art devoted to the recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in and from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers or among citizens of the community.”

- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE

• A person having a college or university degree or degrees in engineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, or related physical and biological sciences who, by virtue of special studies and training, has acquired competence in industrial hygiene

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST

• are primarily concerned about the following types of hazards:

-solvents, particulates, noise, dermatoses, radiation, temperature, ergonomics, toxic substances, biological substances, ventilation, gas, and vapors

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST

The National Safety Council (NSC): Such special studies and training must have been sufficient in all of the above cognate sciences to provide the abilities:

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST

(a) to recognize environmental factors and to understand their effect on humans and their well-being;

(b) to evaluate, on the basis of experience and with the aid of quantitative measurement techniques, the magnitude of these

stresses in terms of ability to impair human health and well-being

(c) to prescribe methods to eliminate, control, or reduce such stresses when necessary to alleviate their effects.

are concerned primarily with radiation in the workplace. Consequently, they are employed by companies that generate or use nuclear power. Their primary duties include the following

HEALTH PHYSICIST

monitoring radiation inside and outside the facility

measuring the radioactivity levels of

biological samples

developing the radiation components of the

company’s emergency action plan

supervising the decontamination of

workers and the workplace when necessary

Occupational physicians are fully degreed and licensed medical doctors. In addition, they must have completed postgraduate work in the following areas of safety like:

• biostatistics and epidemiology

• industrial toxicology

• work physiology

• radiation (ionizing and nonionizing)

• noise and hearing conservation

• and others

OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN

OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN

• Alice Hamilton, MD -The first leading occupational

physician in the United States. According to the NSC, in 1910 Dr. Hamilton became managing director of the Illinois Occupational Disease Commission in the United States.

•Bernardino Ramazzini - widely thought of as being the first occupational physician. This is primarily as a result of his study of the work-related problems of workers in Modena, Italy, and a subsequent book he authored titled The Diseases of Workers (1700).

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSE

• is the application of nursing principles in conserving the health of workers in all occupations.

• It involves prevention, recognition, and treatment of illness and injury, and requires special skills and knowledge

in the areas of health education and counselling, environmental health, rehabilitation, and human relations

- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)

RISK MANAGER

Risk is defined as a specific contingency or peril. Because the situations that put organizations at risk can be so expensive when they do occur, many organizations employ risk manager

RISK MANAGER

Risk management consists of the various activities and strategies that an organization can use to protect itself from situations, circumstances, or events that may undermine its security.

You are yourself, a risk manager.

MANAGING RISK

REDUCTION -Risk managers work closely with safety and

health personnel to reduce the risk of accidents and injuries on the job

TRANSFERENCE -work closely with insurance companies to achieve

the most effective transference possible

• Many occupations, both in and out of government service, recognize education and experience through professional certifications.

• Professional Certification is an excellent way to establish credentials in the safety, health and environmental profession.

Certification of Safety and Health Professionals

Most Highly Pursued Certifications

Certified Safety Professional

• Awarded by Board of Certified Safety Professionals

Certified Industrial Hygienist

• Awarded by American Board of Industrial Hygiene

Certified Professional Ergonomist

• Awarded by Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics

Certified Occupational Health

Nurse

• Awarded by the American Board for Occupational Health Nurse

How to qualify for CSP title?

Apply to the BSCP

• Associate degree in safety and health or Bachelor’s degree in any field

Meet an academic requirement

• 4 years of professional safety experience in addition to any experience used to meet academic requirements

Meet a professional safety experience

requirement

• Basic knowledge appropriate to professional safety practice

Pass the Safety Fundamentals Examination

Pass the Comprehensive

Practice Examination

How to qualify for CIH title?

• Technical knowledge

• Professional Reference Questionnaire

Certification Process

• Accumulation of 40 points required every 5 years gathered for active practice, technical committee work, publications, meetings, teachings, etc.

Certification Maintenance

How to qualify for CPE?

• MS or equivalent, in one of the correlative fields of ergonomics, such as biomechanics, human factors/ergonomics, industrial engineering, industrial hygiene, kinesiology, psychology, or systems engineering

Academic requirements

• 4 years of ergonomic work experience Work experience

• technical reports, design papers, analysis reports, evaluation reports, patent applications, or thorough written description of the project

Work product

How to qualify for OHN?

• Registered nurses holding bachelor’s degree, associate degree or higher

Academic requirements

• 4000 or more hours of work experience in occupational health

• 50 or more contact hours of continuing education completed during last 5 years

Work experience

Emerging Role of Safety Professional

Core Duty: prevention of events that cause harm to people, property and environment

The skills needed to fulfill this duty are changing.

Opportunities

• Safety is one business function that allows an organization to demonstrate genuine concern for the well-being of the individual and give life to the ethics that are becoming more important to employee satisfaction.

• Safety professionals position themselves as consultants to the organization and trusted advisors to the line organization and its leaders.

Threats

-Independently deciding resources that are unavailable

- adding layers of complexities

-insertion of disciplinary actions

-failure to investigate to analyze new incentives and approaches