Oregon OSHA Online Course 100

Safety and Health Management Basics

Assignments

Important Tip! Writing drafts first, either offline or online, before submitting coursework, will help improve the quality of your work. On a sheet of paper, write your first draft responses for the following assignments. When finished, return to the online assignments page, enter your final coursework, and complete the course evaluation and certificate information.

See Appendix B for help in answering the extended response assignments.

Assignment 1:

I'm a tough CEO who just rejected the recommendation below because it does not provide enough information. Rewrite the recommendation to better "sell" me on taking corrective action. Be sure to emphasize the monetary cost vs benefits.

• Statement of the problem: Describe the hazardous condition, unsafe behaviors.
• History of the problem: Have similar accidents occurred previously? What were the associated insured and uninsured accident costs.
• Risk: Discuss the probability and severity of the potential injury. List frequency, duration, # of employees exposed, stress factors, and most likely severity of potential injury.
• Recommendations: (Engineering controls, management controls, with options).
• Cost vs Benefits: (Use information provided in the course to estimate risk probability and severity, ROI, payback, etc.)

Assignment 2:

For this assignment, reference the accident scenario below and do the following:

1. Conduct surface cause analysis: Describe at least two hazardous conditions, and/or unsafe behaviors/actions that directly caused or contributed to the accident.

2. Conduct root cause analysis: From the information gained in the surface cause analysis, describe at least two possible system design weaknesses and/or system performance failures that may have contributed to the surface causes.

Jack's hurt bad...

A call comes in from the worksite supervisor. Jack's been hurt. As an accident investigator, you immediately swing into action. You grab your investigator's kit and hurry to the worksite accident scene. By the time you get there, the EMTs are administering first aid. From initial statements, it appears that the scaffold was very unstable and caused Jack to lose his balance and fall. The scaffold was erected on muddy ground and one of the legs sunk into the ground. Jack was in a hurry while climbing the leg to get to the top of the scaffold. It's a serious accident so he will be transported to the hospital.

Assignment 3:

Describe your organization's safety incentive/recognition program. Discuss why you believe the program is effective or ineffective. Is it proactive or reactive? What can be done to improve the program?