Statistics for the Safety Professional

2015 ◽  
pp. 357-374
Keyword(s):  
Safety Professional

Quality of Graduate Health and Safety Education Programs: A General Model Illustrated with Examples of Nine (post)Graduate Courses in Europe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Van Wassenhove ◽  
Paul Swuste ◽  
Francisco J. Forteza ◽  
José M. Carretero-Gomez ◽  
Pedro Arezes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Safety Professional

Research into professionalization in health and safety has recently gained in interest. Graduate training is one of the factors that determines or conditions the role of the safety professional, thus intervene in the professionalization process. This article is the result of a workshop and the discussions of nine academic directors of safety education programs about quality evaluation. This article introduces the issue with a historic overview of safety education, presents a synthesis of nine selected education programs, discusses quality evaluation of health and safety education programs, propose a quality evaluation frame and finally, proposes a process for designing a quality safety education program with an associated model of the learning objectives. The outcomes are interesting for everyone who is interested in health and safety education and quality evaluation and will give insights into how safety professionals are educated.

scholarly journals Health and safety professional roles and competencies to promove company-level integration of preventive actions. A Delphy study

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Clara Gual Llorens ◽  
José Mª Velarde Collado ◽  
Mariona Portell Vidal ◽  
Pere Boix Ferrando
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Safety Professional

Injury Prevention by Design: Measuring Greenhouse Worker Social Sustainability for Redesigned Equipment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Klesmith ◽  
Abigail R. Clarke-Sather ◽  
Katherine Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exertion ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Baseline Risk ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Excessive Strain ◽  
Midwest Region ◽  
Greenhouse Workers ◽  
Safety Professional ◽  
Professional Tool

Abstract The greenhouse industry is a multibillion-dollar sector of U.S. agricultural production. Greenhouse workers often experience hazardous working conditions placing them at risk for injury. These injuries include but are not limited to mechanized operations causing machine and tool related injuries, on-site shipping and loading practices placing excessive strain on a worker’s body, working from height leading to slips and falls, and a strenuous indoor working environment exceeding workers’ physical capabilities. This project focused on identifying greenhouse worker injury trends using workers’ compensation data from the Midwest region and observing and interviewing workers at one specific greenhouse company host site. Physical exertion, lifting and handling, and falls were all high value workers’ compensation problems for Midwestern regional greenhouses. A new piece of equipment and process was designed to prevent worker injury identified within the host site. The baseline risk from the original equipment was compared to the new equipment using a newly proposed indicator of social sustainability based on a validated safety professional tool, the risk assessment matrix (RAM), was utilized. The RAM found a reduction in risk between the original and new equipment. The new equipment design and process exhibited improvement in six out of the eleven hazards identified in the RAM. These improvements addressed lifting and handling concerns. Combining workers’ compensation data analysis, on-site observation, and worker interviews together was an effective method to rapidly deploy and design safer and thus more socially sustainable equipment for greenhouse workers.

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