Safe Systems education

Previously, in this chapter, I have described how cumulative job tenure can help develop realistic safety expectations. Clearly, the school leaver applicant has not had the opportunity to adjust their safe expectations based on previous work experience. However, educators and parents can play an important role in safety-specific expectation setting. Parents and educators can deliver key messages about workplace safety either informally as part of parenting or formally as part of the school curriculum activities. While parents may not have a legal responsibility to ensure their child s safety at work, as parents they do have a moral responsibility. School system education in occupational health and safety has been called for by a number of authors (e.g., American Public Health Association 1995 Bush and Baker... 

Within the United Kingdom, the application of industrial occupational hygiene principles and the operation of defined safe systems of work in museums are both recent developments. Before the commencement of the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act (HASAWA) in 1974, few museums were required to take notice of workplace safety legislation under either the Factories Act, 1964 or the Offices Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 and, in common with most types of educational establishment, the last decade has come as something of a shock. The past decade, especially the last few years, has seen some attempts directed at a rapid, and on occasion over-hasty, adoption of safer practices across a range of activities in museums, including research, conservation, visitor welfare and fieldwork—all areas in which health and safety should be prime considerations. 

The Safe System approach assumes that road users will enter the system competent and will take measures to ensure that they remain compliant and alert. Licensing, training, education, enforcement and commimication campaigns are essential tools for improving riding safety. It is also important, in a complementarily way, to enhance the road environment and the vehicles toward this safety objective. 

Thanks to the Swedes and the Dutch, we have arrived at Safe System thinking. The simplicity of early heuristics such as the 3Es, education, engineering, and enforcement, has been discarded as we have come to understand that we need truly complementary—not competitive or narrowly focussed or single professional function-based— intervention strategies. Effective intervention implies proactive innovation. 

If the Safe System is to be implemented effectively, it needs to be understood and accepted by frontline staff, not just their managers. Such staff comprise traffic engineers, infrastructure engineers, police, town planners, transport planners, vehicle engineers, educators, and many others across the full range of agencies whose work directly impacts upon traffic safety performance. 

Designs should be based on knowledge of what the human body (and human nature) will do. Include educated operators in design reviews. The HAZOP methodology for process hazard analysis offers an excellent opportunity to identify design and procedural opportunities for inherently safer systems. After all, the OP in HAZOP stands for operability (COPS, 1992). For example, a safe start-up procedure that requires the operator to walk up and down the stairs three times to manipulate valves in the correct sequence can be made inherently safer by locating the valves so that operator has to walk up the stairs only once during the start-up. 

Transportation in general is not a value on its own, but serves primary economic, social or private interests. Transport provides access to markets and production sites and thus helps to foster productivity and economic development of production, retail and service industries. Providing the possibility for people to move quickly and safely, modern transport systems furthermore help to use human capital more effectively and to create and develop cultural surroundings. Additionally, efficient transport networks and systems give all people access to high-level education facilities and to the health system. By that, transport helps to increase the quality of life. 

A large hurdle to expanded use of hydrogen is public perception. Widespread hydrogen use represents an extraordinary educational challenge, as well as the absolute requirement that safety be intrinsic to all processes and systems. The development of reliable, low-cost hydrogen sensors is an important aspect of the Program, as is the development of codes and standards for the safe use of hydrogen. 

This is a multistate collaborative effort funded by the US Department of Agriculture Extension Service as a repository of residue avoidance information and educational materials. FARAD has evolved into an expert-mediated residue avoidance decision support system, and its focus is the production of safe food of animal origin (5). 

Security has become a greater issue in recent years, and web-based educational systems must operate in a safe, secure environment so that data are protected and immediately retrievable when needed. Many highly regulated firms are turning to outside organizations that offer hosted services able to meet extremely high security standards. 

Many people cannot use the wheelchairs as they come from the manufacturer. Specialized seating is required to help persons to remain in a comfortable and functional seated posture for activities that enable them to access work and attend educational and recreational activities. Orthotic supports, seating systems in wheelchairs, chairs that promote dynamic posture in the workplace, and chairs for the elderly that fit properly, are safe, and encourage movement all fit into the broad category of sitting technology. 

With the establishment of modem enterprise system and its huge benefits, the establishment of a modern enterprise has become the only way for coal enterprise to make sustainable development. Nationally, many coal enterprises carry out the safe production work, and the worker s safety production overall qualities has become the core of the safe production work. Only the improvement of worker s safety comprehensive quality, can it make great progress in the level of enterprise safety production, which can truly establish a kind of modern safe company guided by the scientific concept of development. Therefore, it s very important to strengthen the safety education and training to coal enterprise s worker. 

In the safety production management system construction and implementation stage, through various forms of publicity and education, formed advanced safety production management philosophy, enhanced employee safety ideology, improved the safety production management personnel perform their duties sense of responsibility, developed a staff safe and civilized behavior, effectively reduced the person s unsafe behavior. 

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