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1. Why are some safety and health standards cited more frequently than others?

Are the ones that need more priority attention, since indicate the areas where the
industry is having difficulties to comply, or the areas in which the inspection agencies
are giving a significant attention over the rest.
2. What else, besides the frequency of sites, does a health and safety
administrator need to know about the rules in this area?
Risk analysis, the comply of rules and planning of investment over the capital

3. Should health and safety managers try to eliminate all hazards in the
workplace? Why?
No, besides trying to eliminate is a irreal practice and ingenue

4. Identify three categories of risks with respect to the feasibility of correction.


Risk which correction is physically is non-viable
Risk which correction is physically viable, but economically is not
Risk which correction is physically and economically viable

5. Describe at least two disadvantages of over-reacting to minor hazards in the


workplace.
Affect credibility of the security manager with the higher charges

6. How does a safety risk differ from a health risk?


Safety is about severe effects or risks, while safety is about the chronic effect of the
same

7. Name three security risks and three health risks.


The guards of a machine (safety risk)
Asbestos in the air (health risk)
Industrial noise (both)
Constant chemical exposure (both)
8. List three chemicals that pose health risks and safety hazards

Mercury compounds
Carbon monoxide
Germanium dioxide
9. Name three physical agents that constitute health risks and safety risks

Vibrations
Noise
Radiation

10. Why does an industrial hygienist need more scientific instruments to assess
the risks than a safety specialist?
Due to the little effects that need to measure to determine if there exist a chronic
risk.

11. What type of risk seems to be more serious: safety or health?


Safety are more serious that health
12. What aspects of the health and safety manager's work are related to the
personnel department?
Some are personnel managers
13. What disadvantage is associated with the placement of the health and safety
manager within the personnel department?
Has low interaction with engineering and is not his area of expertise
14. What disadvantage can be seen in placing the health and safety manager
within the legal department of a company?
This arrangement emphasizes a confrontational function, and is not recommended
because it tends to detract from both safety and health at the site of work as well as
constructive relations with inspection agencies
15. Compare the missions of the following two federal agencies in the United
States: OSHA and CPSC.
Although both fields consider the security of the machines and equipment, CPSC
concentrates on the responsibility of product manufacturers, while OSHA
concentrates on the responsibility of the employer who places products on the
market use in the workplace.

16. What is ANSI, and what relationship does it have with the field of safety and
health?
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a national organization that
produces standards for the field of safety and health.

17. Compare the missions of OSHA and EPA. Why would the same person within
an industrial plant have the responsibility of dealing with both agencies?
OSHA's duty is to create standards, mandatory to protect the safety and health of
workers, EPA on the contrary was created to enforce standards where the worker
can develop in a controlled environment without risks to health or safety. the same
person can develop this position because it is responsible for verifying and ensuring
that there are no minimum failures in the machinery, which would present an
environmental risk, he can realize, as would be responsible for ensuring that the
laws established by OSHA are complied with.

18. What event occurred in 1970 that highlighted the authority of the security
director in a characteristic industrial company?
In 1970 the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed. which was created by
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). and Health
Administration).
19. Compare attitudes before and after the approval of OSHA's law regarding
occupational health and the work of the plant nurse.
Reductions in energy consumption, for example, can lower a firm’s bottom line
energy cost while decreasing its impact on the environment
20. Describe the tragedy of 1984 that changed public awareness and public policy
for environmental and public health and safety.
In 1984, in a shocking disaster in Bhopal, India, 2,500 civilians were killed in a single
release. industrial accident of the deadly methylisocyanate gas. Undoubtedly, this
incident impacted public policy on United States. Due to its close relationship with
the safety and health of workers, with frequency, responsibility for complying with
the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, Environmental
Protection Agency) is part of the duties of the safety and security administrator.
health
21. Discuss cases where environmental protection can have a positive impact on
a company's balance sheet.
Global warming
Smoking tobacco
The use of fossil fuels and their contribution to the problem of global warming
Supply of oil and other carbon energy sources

22. Identify four environmental issues that have received a greater public
emphasis in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Global warming
Smoking tobacco
The use of fossil fuels and their contribution to the problem of global warming
Supply of oil and other carbon energy sources
23. Explain the relationship between "green engineering" and global warming.
Green engineering is focused on minimize the amount of pollution that is generated
by a construction or operation of a facility, for example the reduction of carbon fuels,
which in turn directly impact global warming and this while occurs a minimization of
the human population exposure to potential hazards.

24. Identify some industries where "system security" has been recognized as
critical. Explain why?
These industries in which failure of a system can be catastrophic and a small failure
can affect irremediably or even take on human lives, in addition to this kind of sites
it is of essential necessity in today's society and therefore it is widely attended.
25. In the 1960s, a movement began in the field of security to recognize the
benefits of life cycle planning and design. What name has been used to
identify this movement? What society has been recognized as dedicated to
this movement?
In the mid-1950s, it started a movement in the California aerospace industry to
consider security as a system to be planned and considered at each step of the
process. Then, in 1964, the System Safety Society was formed in California and the
concept spread rapidly in the United States and other countries.

NAME: DAVID ENRIQUE MAY MOLINA

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