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A. Provides professional
guidance and management skills specializing in the fields of Construction
Safety and General Industry Safety to clients while promoting the philosophy
of the company.
A. Anticipate, identify and
evaluate hazardous conditions and practices. This function involves:
- 1. Developing methods for:
a. Anticipating and predicting hazards from experience, historical data
and other information sources.
b. Identifying and recognizing hazards in existing or future systems,
equipment, products, software, facilities, processes, operations and
procedures during their expected life.
c. Evaluating and assessing the probability and severity of loss events
and accidents which may result from actual or potential hazards.
- 2.
Applying these methods and conducting hazard analyses and interpreting
results.
- 3.
Reviewing, with the assistance of specialists where needed, entire
systems, processes, and operations for failure modes, causes and effects
of the entire system, process or operation and any subsystem or
components due to:
a. System, subsystem, or component failures.
b. Human error.
c. Incomplete or faulty decision making, judgments or administrative
actions.
d. Weaknesses in proposed or existing policies, directives, objectives
or practices.
- 4.
Reviewing, compiling, analyzing and interpreting data from accident and
loss event reports and other sources regarding injuries, illnesses,
property damage, environmental effects or public impacts to:
a. Identify causes, trends and relationships.
b. Ensure completeness, accuracy and validity of required information.
c. Evaluate the effectiveness of classification schemes and data
collection methods.
d. Initiate investigations.
- 5.
Providing advice and counsel about compliance with safety, health and
environmental laws, codes, regulations and standards.
- 6.
Conducting research studies of existing or potential safety and health
problems and issues.
- 7.
Determining the need for surveys and appraisals that help identify
conditions or practices affecting safety and health, including those
which require the services of specialists, such as physicians, health
physicists, industrial hygienists, fire protection engineers, design and
process engineers, ergonomists, risk managers,
environmental professionals, psychologists and others.
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Assessing environments, tasks and other elements to ensure that
physiological and psychological capabilities, capacities and limits of
humans are not exceeded.
B. Develop hazard control designs, methods, procedures and
programs. This function involves:
- 1.Formulating and prescribing engineering or
administrative controls, preferably before exposures, accidents, and
loss events occur, to:
a.eliminate hazards and causes of exposures,
accidents and loss events.
a. reduce the probability or severity of
injuries, illnesses, losses or environmental damage from potential
exposures, accidents, andloss events when
hazards cannot be eliminated.
- 2.
Developing methods which integrate safety performance into the goals,
operations and productivity of organizations and their management and
into systems, processes, operations or their components.
- 3.
Developing safety, health and environmental policies, procedures, codes
and standards for integration into operational
policies of organizations, unit operations, purchasing and contracting.
- 4.
Consulting with and advising individual and participating on teams
a. engaged in planning, design, development and installation or
implementation of systems or programs involving hazard controls.
b. engaged in planning, design, development,
fabrication, testing, packaging and distribution of products or services
regarding safety requirements and application of safety principles which
will maximize product safety.
- 5.
Advising and assisting human resources specialists when applying hazard
analysis results or dealing with the capabilities and limitations of
personnel.
- 6.
Staying current with technological developments, laws, regulations,
standards, codes, products, methods and practices related to hazard
controls.
C. Implement, administer and advise others on hazard control programs. This
function involves:
- 1. Preparing
reports which communicate valid and comprehensive for hazard controls
which are based on analysis and interpretation of accident exposure,
loss event and other data.
- 2.
Using written and graphic materials, presentations and other
communication media to recommend hazard controls and hazard control
policies, procedures and programs to decision making personnel.
- 3.
Directing or assisting in planning and developing educational and
training materials or courses. Conducting or assisting with courses related
to designs, policies, procedures and programs involving hazard
recognition and control.
- 4.
Advising others about hazards, hazard controls, relative risk and
related safety matters when they are communicating with the media,
community and public.
- 5.
Managing and implementing hazard controls and hazard control programs
which are within the duties of the individual's professional safety
position.
D. Measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of hazard control programs
.This function involves:
- 1. Establishing
and implementing techniques, which involve risk analysis, cost,
cost-benefit analysis, work sampling, loss rate and similar
methodologies, for periodic and systematic evaluation of hazard control
and hazard control program effectiveness.
- 2. Developing
methods to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of hazard controls and
programs and measure the contribution of components of systems,
organizations, processes and operations toward the overall
effectiveness.
- 3.
Providing results of evaluation assessments, including recommended
adjustments and changes to hazard controls or hazard control programs,
to individuals or organizations responsible for their management and
implementation.
- 4.
Directing, developing, or helping to develop management accountability
and audit programs which assess safety performance of entire systems,
organizations, processes and operations or their components and involve
both deterrents and incentives.
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