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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Government agency tasked with developing and enforcing standards of safety and health in the workplace.
Hotline: (800)321-OSHA
www.osha.gov |
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| Deals with acute effects of hazards. |
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| Deals with chronic effects of hazards. |
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Government agency tasked to ensure the safety of products going to end consumers.
Hotline: (800)638-2772
www.cpsc.gov
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Certified Safety Professional
Designated certification for Safety Professionals
Board of Certified Safety Professionals of America
208 Burwash Ave.
Savoy, IL 61874
(217)359-9263
www.bcsp.org |
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Certified Industrial Hygienist
Designated certification for health professionals
American Board of Industrial Hygiene
6015 West St. Joseph, Suite 102
Lansing, MI 48917
(517)321-2638
www.abih.org |
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American Society of Safety Engineers
1800 East Oakton Street
Des Plaines, IL 60018
(847)699-2929
www.asse.org |
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American Industrial Hygiene Association
2700 Prosperity Avenue, Suite 250
Fairfax, VA 22031
(703)849-8888
www.aiha.org |
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American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists
1330 Kemper Meadow Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45240
(513) 742-2020
www.acgih.org |
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National Safety Council
1121 SPRING Lake Drive
Itasca, IL 60143
(630) 285-1121
www.nsc.org |
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National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
Source of technical information for questions about safety and health.
Hotline: (800) 35-NIOSH
www.niosh.org |
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| Statutory compensation levels to be paid by the employer for various injuries that may be incurred by the worker. |
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ANSI standardized and designated the Z16.1 system (voluntary recordkeeping)
OSHA set mandatory requirements similar to Z16.1 system in the 1970's. |
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| The official public notification device of the Federal Government. |
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| Includes all injuries or illnesses that require medical, treatment, plus fatalities. |
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| US. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Recordkeeping 1978) |
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Lost-WorkDay-Cases Incidence Rate
Counts injury (exclude illness) cases involving "lost workdays", which include restricted work activity days. Fatalities are not included. |
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| Direct costs (or "tip of the iceberg") |
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| Payment of worker's compensation insurance premiums, which are based on a firm's injury and illness experience. |
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| Hidden costs (or indirect costs) |
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The intangible costs of accidents, although hidden are much greater than the direct costs:
Wages, Lost supervisory time, co-worker's lost time during the emergency, damaged equipment, ruined product, overtime for production to catch back up, learning curve for replacement worker, clerical costs. |
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Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Protects disabled persons from job discrimination. |
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Aquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome
Health professionals are the primary at-risk occupations for bloodborne pathogens |
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Hepatitis B Virus
This virus actually kills more victims than does HIV. |
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| The leading cause of occupational fatalities for working women and the second leading cause for working men. |
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| Margins for variation for the chance element in safety. |
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Additional principles of engineering design that consider the consequences of component failure within the system:
1. General fail-safe principle
2. Fail-safe principle of redundancy
3. Principle of worst cause. |
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| General Fail-safe principle |
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| The resulting status of a system, in the event of failure of one of its components, shall be in a safe mode. |
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| A critically important function of a system, subsytem, or components can be preserved by alternate parallel or standby units. |
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| The design of a system should consider the worst situation to which it may be subjected in use. |
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| Variety of methods to reduce or eliminate hazards. |
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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Method to trace the effects of individual component failures on the overall, or "catastrophic", failure of equipment. |
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| Method of analysis that concentrates on the end result, which is usually an accident or some other adverse consequence of the probabilities associated with the various causes and their effects. |
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| The study of the nature and effects of poisons. |
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| The study of epidemics in people. |
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| Method that provides the comparison between the benefits of improving safety and health versus the costs of capital investment alternatives to provide such improvements. |
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| Hazards-classification Scale |
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| Method of classifying hazards into categories to support the decision to eliminate hazards on a worst to first basis. |
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