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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