Safety

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Safety Health Professions

• IENG 331
• Safety Engineering
• Fall 2009

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Assignment

• Read Chapter 2 Brauer
• HW2 Complete all the Review Questions
• Due To Be Determined

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Introduction

• Engineers need to know what role other
  professions have in SH and need to work with
  them
• SH is interdisciplinary
• No one person can be an expert in all aspects
• Team approach is needed

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When people with limited safety training become
involved in safety activities

• They may understand plant operations
• They may be from Human Resources (HR)
• They may have had an accident and became a safety
  proponent
• They may be good leaders communicators
• But that does not give them the safety knowledge
  and skills to deal effectively with complex
  technical SH problems.

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Safety Professionals come from a variety of
backgrounds

• Law
• Engineering
• Technical Equipment
• Manufacturing Processes
• Behavioral Sciences
• Environmental Science
• Management
• Health Sciences
• Finance
• Insurance
• Seat of Pants
• Etc.

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A Safety Professional Is . . .

• An individual who, by virtue of her/his
  specialized knowledge and skill and/or
  educational accomplishments, has achieved
  professional status in the safety field.

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Engineers as Safety Professionals

• Work on the preventive side of safety
• Identify hazards during design
• eliminate
• reduce
• Design products, processes, workplaces so that
  unsafe behavior cannot or is unlikely to occur
• Safety through Design
• PE (Licensed Professional Engineer)
• CSP (Certified Safety Professional)

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Civil Engineering

• Structural Integrity
• buildings, bridges, etc.
• Environmental
• waste minimization, handling, disposal
• air, soil, water pollution
• Transportation Safety

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Industrial Engineering

• Make systems of people, machines, materials, and
  the environment
• safe
• optimal
• Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering (IENG 321)
• Biomechanics
• Training, Communications, Teaming Skills

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Mechanical Engineering

• Establish safety requirements
• machines
• boilers
• elevators
• mechanisms
• Need to incorporate safety at the design phase

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Electrical Engineering

• Electrical safety devices
• electrical interlocks
• ground fault circuit interrupters
• software safety

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Chemical Engineering

• Minimize hazards of chemicals and chemical
  systems
• Minimize hazardous waste streams
• Process Safety Engineering

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Safety Engineering

• Application of scientific and engineering
  principles and methods to
• identify,
• evaluate,
• control hazards
• Multidisciplinary
• CSP (Certified Safety Professional)

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Fire Protection Engineering

• Protect life and property against loss
• fires
• explosions
• Prevention, detection, extinguishment

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Risk Management

• Reduce all types of losses to an acceptable
  minimum at lowest possible cost
• accident prevention
• risk assessment
• insurance programs
• Loss Control Specialists
• ARM (Associate in Risk Management)

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Occupational Medicine

• Occupational Physicians
• board certification
• prevention treatment of occupational
• injuries, illnesses, diseases
• Occupational Health Nurses
• working in occupational medicine at the plant or
  worksite level
• Physical Occupational Therapists
• Masters degree from accredited program, state
  license, national/state exams
• Help patients restore function, mobility, relieve
  pain

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Industrial Hygiene

• Science and art of
• recognition, evaluation, control of
  environmental factors stresses
• air contaminants, noise, thermal, etc.
• IENG 431/531
• CIH (Certified Industrial Hygienist)

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Health Physics

• Health Physicist
• medical physics concerned with protecting humans
  and the environment from radiation exposure
• Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Submarines, Low
  level nuclear exposures (X-Rays and other medical
  and scientific applications)
• CHP (Certified Health Physicist)

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Certifications Registrations

• Registration - PE
• Certification
• CSP
• CPE
• CIH
• CHP
• ARM

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Assignment

• Read Chapter 2 Brauer
• HW2 Complete all the Review Questions
• Due To Be Determined