Safety

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Safety Health Professions

• IENG 331
• Safety Engineering

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Introduction

• SH is interdisciplinary
• No one person can be an expert in all aspects
• Team approach is needed

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Associated Fields

• Law
• Engineering
• Technical Equipment
• Mfg Processes
• Behavioral Sciences
• Management
• Health Sciences
• Finance
• Insurance
• 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
• PE

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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
• 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

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Safety Engineering

• Application of scientific and engineering
  principles and methods to
• identify,
• evaluate,
• control hazards
• Multidisciplinary
• CSP

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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

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Occupational Medicine

• Occupational Physicians
• board certification
• prevention treatment of occupational
• injuries, illnesses, diseases
• Occupational Health Nurses
• working in occup med at the plant or worksite
  level

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Industrial Hygiene

• Science and art of
• recognition, evaluation, control of
  environmental factors stresses
• air contaminants, noise, thermal, etc.
• CIH

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Health Physics

• Health Physicist
• medical physics concerned with protecting humans
  and the environment from radiation exposure
• CHP

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Certifications Registrations

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