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Unit VIII Course Project

1. Conduct an audit of the following safety management system
elements at your organization, or an organization with which you are familiar
and have access to the required information:

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS	ANSI/AIHA Z10 SECTIONS	COURSE TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS
1. Occupational Health and Safety Management System	3.1.1	8
2. Occupational Health and Safety Policy	3.1.2	8
3. Responsibility and Authority	3.1.3	8
4. Employee Participation	3.2	8
5. Review Process, Assessment, and Prioritization	4.1, 4.2	9
6. Risk Assessment	5.1.1	11
7. Hierarchy of Controls	5.1.2	14
8. Design Review	5.1.3	15
9. Management of Change	5.1.3	19
10. Procurement	5.1.4	20
11. Monitoring and Measurement	6.1	21
12. Incident Investigation	6.2	22
13. Audits	6.3	23
14. Corrective and Preventive Actions	6.4	23
15. Feedback to the Planning Process	6.5	23
16. Management Review	7.1, 7.2	24

Documents:Organizational safety
manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses

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Records:
E-mails
or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs,
audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and
training records.

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Interviews:
Management
personnel, supervisors, and employees

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Observation:
Walk
through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.

2.
For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found
(or were unable to find). Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s
implementation of each element against available reference sources and best
practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate
each element:

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World
Class:OHS
performance

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Strong:
Conforming/complete,
may have minor gaps with action plans

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Moderate:
Scattered
non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place

·
Significant
Non-Conformances Exist:Still
needs focus

·
Major
Effort Required:Major
or systemic non-conformances exist

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Appropriate references include the course textbook,
textbooks from other college-level courses, ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012, other published
consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and voluntary
guidelines, and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia,
About.com, Ask.com and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered
scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if
you have any questions about the appropriateness of a reference source.

3.
If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for
improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support
your recommendations.

4.
Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the
organization’s safety management system.

The
Course Project must be a minimum of seven
pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of
five professional references sources must be used.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading
Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

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