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OSHA requires construction areas to be lighted to not less than specified minimum illumination intensities. For example, general construction area lighting is required to be at least 5 foot-candles. What construction area(s) is/are required to have 30 foot-candles of illumination intensity?
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Consider these four response options:
A. Indoors, warehouses, corridors
B. Tunnels, shafts and general underground work areas
C. First aid stations, infirmaries and offices
D. General construction plant and shops
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Vol 12, Issue 9
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October 2012
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Greetings!
In the Points to Ponder corner this month, Bob Lapidus discusses placing unreasonable pressures or demands on employees and its aftermath.
What do you think? Do Risk Management and Safety Management correlate? Ann Richey, ARM-P, Risk Management Director with the City of Ontario, CA, shares her take on the subject.
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Loss Causes: Placing Unreasonable Pressures or Demands on Employees
By Bob Lapidus, CSP, CSMS
In previous Points to Ponder articles, reasons for making wrong and potentially unsafe decisions were discussed to include:
- Improperly evaluating a problem
- Not creating expectations, policies, procedures or rules
- Creating improper expectations, policies, procedures or rules
- Not giving employees authority to take preventive action
We make thousands of decisions in any given day. We know that not all our decisions are correct. That's the way it is.
Nevertheless, when it comes to safety, being right is the only way to go.
Being wrong can lead to injury, accident or other catastrophic consequences.
In addition to the previously discussed reasons for making wrong and unsafe decisions, sometimes we do so because of unreasonable pressures or demands. Those pressures or demands can be so powerful that we take unacceptable risks to get the job done as quickly as possible, disregarding what we know to be the safe and correct way of working.
Such pressures or demands may come from those people to whom we report. Pressure has been put on them to get the job done regardless of what it takes. That means short cuts must be taken to gain speed rather than to maintain caution to prevent employee injuries and property and equipment damage.
Such pressures may come from our peers. Someone has a game or a concert to go to after work and needs to get the job done faster than the safe rate of speed.
Such pressures may come from ourselves. Something urgent in our own lives is pressing upon us to get the job done quickly so we can get to whatever else is putting demands on us.
No matter from where the pressure emanates, pressure pushes us to work at an unsafe pace and/or in a way that stops us from working safely, using the correct equipment, following the established safety procedures or even working through an unsafe situation that needs corrective action to be taken now rather than waiting until an accident happens.
Have you ever heard an organization proclaim Safety First?
Such a proclamation sounds good, but often does not play out in real life. Safety First occurs when nothing else is present to take its place. When something is present to take its pace, like getting the job done faster due to pressures and demands, then safety is no longer priority #1. It is priority nothing.
Safety needs to be part of the mission of the organization, part of its values, rather than given a superficial priority that only exists when everything is perfectly right. Safety is not just for the ideal situation. Not even unreasonable pressures or demands should permit anyone to do the work in an unsafe manner. Working safely is all the time.
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The ideas for Points to Ponder articles come from Safety Center's 12-day Safety Management Specialist Certificate (CSMS) program, and from Safety Center's short course entitled Safety Management for Employees Who Supervise. Check out these course descriptions-- Professional Safety Management or contact Quen Cach in the Northern California office at 800-825-7262 or Gayleen Grigoreas in the Southern California office at 909-625-9650.
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Risk Management and Safety Management - How Do They Correlate?
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By Ann Richey, ARM-P
Risk Management Director
City of Ontario, CA
Risk Management (according to Wikipedia) is defined as the identification, assessment and prioritization of risks, followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events. Safety Management is the identification and mitigation of hazards, through proper training, correct equipment and engineering controls. In other words, Risk Management assumes bad things will happen so it puts appropriate responses in place, and Safety Management strives for the elimination of accidents altogether.
So, which approach is correct? The answer is they both are correct. As a former Safety Manager from 1991 to 2002, and a Risk Manager from 2002 to present, I have found there are a vast variety of unanticipated events with unfortunate repercussions, and there truly is no way to prevent or even predict all of them. Having said that, I still hold firmly to the belief that employees can work injury-free and accident-free if provided the correct equipment, training and working conditions. The Risk Management approach is very different from Safety Management, and depending on the size of the organization, it may take two people to maximize their effectiveness.
Risk Management looks at situations from a dispassionate, objective, global viewpoint. Safety is just one of many components of Risk Management. Risks, or losses, will happen - so you need to decide whether you will transfer that risk, insure it, or mitigate the cost. An effective Risk Manager works closely with department heads to develop contracts requiring a Certificate of Insurance so that if something does go wrong, you have the ability to successfully reject or transfer the claim over to the contractor. For losses where it is not possible to transfer the risk, then the necessary insurance coverage must be in place. An effective Risk Manager always looks for better ways to insure, from reviewing limits and deductibles, to purchasing coverage as part of a pooled program. When things go terribly awry and you are handling a lawsuit, Risk Managers strategize with legal counsel whether to pursue mediation, arbitration or try the case and weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each.
Safety management, on the other hand, is more intimate. Effective safety management means getting involved with the using departments, so you are able to view the workplace through their eyes. Then you apply your knowledge to their work environment and come up with ways to work more effectively and with far fewer accidents. Creating a working safety program that is meaningful and practical is just one of the ways good safety managers make their mark on using departments. Another is being a resource for employees who might have safety concerns and do not feel comfortable reporting their concerns to their supervisor. Providing training, monitoring the working environment and equipment to give intelligent feedback to management is crucial to achieving lower injury rates without spending money unnecessarily. Safety management requires constant involvement, physical presence and ongoing feedback.
If you are responsible for both safety and risk management tasks, it is vital that you dedicate time to anticipating risk as well as being the safety person. Enlist representatives from various departments to assist in the distribution of materials and provide insight into what is going on in their area. Remember, you chose safety as a career because you are passionate about it. Nobody else will stay committed to safety if you are not - you must lead by example.
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Hi Bob,
As the IVES Certified Trainer at my company, do I keep the original documentation (theory test, practical evaluation forms and record sheet) or do I give them to Human Resources and keep copies for myself?
Thanks, Eric.
Hi Eric,
You should give the original documentation to the employer (Human Resources) and keep copies in your personal file. Remember that your personal file is for your eyes only. If anyone wants to see those records, they will have to get them from HR as they are the only ones who can grant or deny them permission.
Thanks, Bob.
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