Unit I Journal
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Some
organizations assign Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hazardous waste
compliance responsibilities to the occupational safety and health manager. Do
you think this is a good idea? Why, or why not? If you were in charge, how
would you handle this?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 10%
of course grade
You may
open this assessment multiple times, but you may only submit it once. You are
encouraged to print the assessment and prepare your answers offline.
Alternatively, you may enter and save your answers for a portion of the
assessment and continue the assessment at a later time. Once all questions have
been answered, click the "Save and Submit" button. The "Save and
Submit" button is located at the bottom of the exam.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Find out
if the community in which you live has a Local Emergency Planning Committee
(LEPC), and discuss what you find. If there is an LEPC, what types of
organizations do the members come from? Do you think the committee is
effective? Why? If there is no LEPC in your area, reflect on what would be
needed to start one.
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 10%
of course grade
You may
open this assessment multiple times, but you may only submit it once. You are
encouraged to print the assessment and prepare your answers offline.
Alternatively, you may enter and save your answers for a portion of the
assessment and continue the assessment at a later time. Once all questions have
been answered, click the "Save and Submit" button. The "Save and
Submit" button is located at the bottom of the exam.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Reflect
on any involvement you have had with a hazardous material spill response or
cleanup operation. What was your role? How would you rate the plans that were
used? If you have never been involved in spill response or cleanup, what role,
if any, do you think you should have in your current position or a previous
position?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 11%
of course grade
Instructions
You have
been hired as a consultant by your town’s emergency management coordinator to
help develop emergency action plans. Your first task is to assess the hazardous
material risks at a local gas station. The station has one 30,000-gallon
underground storage tank compartmentalized to hold 10,000 gallons each for
three gasoline grades and one 10,000-gallon tank for diesel fuel. The station
has four pumps, and each one can deliver all four products. Also on site is a
2,500-square-foot concrete block building used for the cashier and retail sales
of service station and convenience store items.
The
station is located at a busy intersection near the center of town. It is
adjacent to several other local businesses that do brisk business during the
day. Across the street from the station is a large housing development with an
elementary school. Behind the station is a city park with playgrounds, baseball
fields, and a large wooded area.
To
complete the assignment, address the components below.
Describe
three scenarios related to the fuel in the tanks that would require emergency
response. The General Behavior Model (GEBMO) is a good tool to assist in hazard
identification. Consider physical, chemical, and natural hazards that may be
contributing factors as well as the potential for environmental releases in
nearby workplaces.
For each
scenario, complete the actions below.
Identify
ways to eliminate or reduce the risks through engineering or administrative
controls.
Discuss
emergency response requirements, such as who responds and what equipment is
needed, and establish the level of emergency response required for the incident.
Recommend
the level of personal protective equipment required for responders.
Summarize
the HAZWOPER training required for the gas station employees. This should be
based on your response to 2b.
Support
your discussion with at least three appropriate references with in-text
citations. Your submission must be a minimum of three pages in length and a
maximum of five pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages.
APA style is required.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Does your
current organization (or one you used to work for) have a written hazard
communication (HazCom) program? Have you been or were you provided a copy of
the various program elements, or did you receive any training on it? What
changes would you recommend for improving Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA)
compliance? If the organization does not have a HazCom program, do you feel one
is needed? Why, or why not? If your organization is exempt from OSHA, do you
think some application of the standards would be beneficial? Why, or why not?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 10%
of course grade
You may
open this assessment multiple times, but you may only submit it once. You are
encouraged to print the assessment and prepare your answers offline.
Alternatively, you may enter and save your answers for a portion of the
assessment and continue the assessment at a later time. Once all questions have
been answered, click the "Save and Submit" button. The "Save and
Submit" button is located at the bottom of the exam.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
The OSHA
Hazard Communication Standard does allow for labeled hazardous materials that
meet the requirements of the 1994 standard to remain in place if it provides
employees with the information they need. What labeling system does your
current organization or one you are familiar with use? If it is not Globally
Harmonized System (GHS) compliant, do you think it is easier or more difficult
to understand than the GHS system? Do you have any recommendations for
improvement?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 10%
of course grade
You may
open this assessment multiple times, but you may only submit it once. You are
encouraged to print the assessment and prepare your answers offline.
Alternatively, you may enter and save your answers for a portion of the
assessment and continue the assessment at a later time. Once all questions have
been answered, click the "Save and Submit" button. The "Save and
Submit" button is located at the bottom of the exam.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Reflect
on your past experiences in receiving HazCom training from an employer. Was it
effective? How could it have been improved? If you have never received HazCom
training, provide some ideas on how you would design such training. What would
consider the most important aspect of HazCom training?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 11%
of course grade
Instructions
Read the
following scenario, and answer the questions following each section.
The Dosit
Corporation is a chemical manufacturer, and its products are sold to other
manufacturers and used in household cleaning products. The company has 290
employees with about 220 involved in the production process, 30 working as
maintenance personnel, and the remainder in clerical, sales, engineering, and
senior management positions.
The
company has never had a safety manager before recently hiring you. The company
president instructed you to find out what is wrong regarding safety and health
and then to fix it. Several binders and files have been given to you with the
explanation that they are the existing safety policies and records. Looking
through one folder, you find a chemical inventory list from 2 years ago that
included 780 chemicals. You find no records of hazard communication training,
and the existing written program is very minimal and inadequate. You also look
at the safety data sheet (SDS) files and find considerably fewer than 780 SDSs.
Question 1. What
steps should you take to bring the company into compliance with the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) HazCom Standard?
You went
on a tour of your company’s chemical processing area with the production
foreman. As with any such operations, there are pipes going everywhere and
numerous tanks. You noticed that few of the pipes and none of the tanks have
visible labels indicating what is in the tanks or pipes.
Question
2a. Is this a problem from a safety or regulatory point of
view? Why, or why not?
Question
2b. What would be your recommendation on labeling?
During
the inventory, you come across an unlabeled 5-gallon container of a chemical on
which someone has written a chemical name.
Question
3. What should you do, if anything, about this container?
During
the inventory, you find in the maintenance shop a quart can of a chemical
without a label. You find out that shop personnel only use it occasionally for
unfreezing rusted bolts. They do not seem to know anything about the chemical’s
potential hazards, and the wording on the container is not very legible, so you
are not sure what the hazards are either.
Question
4a. How would find out about the proper use, storage, and disposal
of this chemical?
Question
4b. How would you identify the chemical as hazardous or as not
hazardous?
You have
just finished training the entire workforce about chemical hazards. The
training was not well received by the workforce, and they generally appeared to
be bored; end-of-class quizzes indicated that they did not really grasp the
essential information. You do not understand how this could be because you
carefully went over the SDS for each chemical that a given group of workers
were potentially exposed to and explained in detail the precautions they needed
to take.
Question
5a. What most likely went wrong in this training?
Question
5b. How could future training be improved, including the
explanation of chemical hazards, without specifically addressing each chemical?
Use
complete sentences when formulating your responses. Create a heading from each
question, and provide your response below each heading in a single document.
Use APA style when writing your responses. Your paper must be a minimum of two
pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Provide examples
in your discussions, and support your answers with at least two appropriate
references and in-text citations. You may use the textbook as one reference.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Some
employers are not willing to go beyond basic compliance with the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration HazCom Standard and apply additional best
practices. Does your current organization, or one with which you are familiar,
go beyond the standard? Why, or why not? What best practices do you think would
provide the greatest benefit?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 10%
of course grade
You may
open this assessment multiple times, but you may only submit it once. You are
encouraged to print the assessment and prepare your answers offline.
Alternatively, you may enter and save your answers for a portion of the
assessment and continue the assessment at a later time. Once all questions have
been answered, click the "Save and Submit" button. The "Save and
Submit" button is located at the bottom of the exam.
Weight: 2%
of course grade
Instructions
Think
about what you have learned throughout this course. How you would implement a
hazard communication program at your current organization or an organization
with which you are familiar if there was no program currently in place. Where
would you begin? What part of the program do you think would be the most
challenging, and why?
Your
journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are
necessary.
Weight: 12%
of course grade
Instructions
Congratulations!
You have just become the safety manager for Podunk University. Your position is
at the campus in Podunk, Colorado, and your predecessor left the job a year and
a half ago. There has been nobody in the position during that interval. The
commitment of the institution to safety is dubious at best, but, well, you
needed a job, so here you are.
After
introducing yourself to the secretary who also supports a half dozen more
senior people, you decide to focus on hazardous material and hazardous waste
issues since you just completed a great college course on those topics. You
tour the campus and discover that the following departments and programs are
your responsibility:
the
biology department, which has animal dissection, human dissection, a
microbiology lab, and a medical laboratory education program that uses small
quantities of chemicals; ·
the
chemistry department, which has uninventoried chemicals dating back to who
knows when and a new forensics program;
the
physics department, which has high-voltage equipment, lasers, and LEDs;
the
English department, which has a lot of books, papers, and
photocopiers;
the math
department, which has a lot of computers and
whiteboards;
the
automotive technology department, which has everything pertaining to auto
repair including solvents, asbestos brake linings, pneumatic tools, waste oil,
and cutting and grinding tools; and
the
Massive Arena, one of the original buildings on campus, which has a variety of
interesting problems, including asbestos insulation and a major ongoing
renovation.
With the
thought of developing a plan to ensure workplace compliance with hazard
material management standards and recommending actions needed to implement an
effective workplace hazardous materials management program, respond to each of
the questions below.
Where do
you start?
Where
should you focus your initial HazCom efforts? In what order do you tackle the
rest of the departments?
What are
the HazCom issues in the automotive technology
department?
What are
the hazardous waste issues in the automotive technology department?
What are
the HazCom issues in the chemistry department?
What are
the hazardous waste issues in the chemistry department?
With the
Massive Arena renovation, who are the people to whom you need to communicate
hazards?
What are
your main concerns with the physics department?
What are
the hazardous material/waste spill response issues for the university, and how
should you prepare for them?
Is any
HazCom training needed for the English and math departments?
What are
some resources for finding out how to solve the HazCom issues?
You must
choose technology or trainers to do the needed training. What are some issues
to consider when selecting these?
Due to
budget cuts, it turns out that you have to do the training yourself by using
PowerPoint. What are some considerations when developing your PowerPoint
presentation?
How can
you evaluate your training to ensure that it is accomplishing your goals?
One of
the chemistry professors working with some of the automotive technology faculty
members invents a new nonflammable compound that will render obsolete the need
for solvents to degrease auto parts. She wants to market the stuff. What needs
to be done before it can be marketed, and who should do it?
The
university decides to partner with the chemistry professor and market this new
compound. Due to the lack of flammability, it is a great hit nationwide. They
then decide to market it worldwide. What concerns need to be addressed?
It turns
out that this wonderful new compound, when used in conjunction with another
chemical, makes a really great explosion. As the university is manufacturing
the stuff in large quantities and storing it on the grounds, what concerns do
you now have? What experts should you consult?
The
biology department has been busy, too. The little microbiology lab is big now,
and they are working with stronger pathogens. How would you determine the new
hazard communication requirements and things that you should do beyond that
minimum?
After a
tough 5 years, you have the Podunk University campus running smoothly,
everybody is trained, and your successor will not have nearly as much of a
challenge as you did. Congratulations, and best wishes on your next challenge!
Your
submission must be a minimum of five pages in length, be double-spaced, and be
in compliance with APA style. Support your answers to the questions with
appropriate in-text citations, corresponding references, and a thorough
analysis with strong arguments. You must use at least two references, one of
which may be the textbook. The title and reference pages do not count toward
meeting the minimum page length requirement.
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