Health and safety manager in a company that has a manufacturing facility with multiple occupational hazards.
In this SLP, you will be a health and safety manager in a company that has a manufacturing facility with multiple occupational hazards. This setting could be a place where you currently work, one that you may be familiar with, or one that you just find interesting.
In the facility there have been many workers compensation claims for back injury and chronic back pain. Also, there has recently been concern for exposure to biological hazards when accidents occur and there is potential for exposure to blood or body fluid. For this SLP, and in the context of your SLP project:
Identify ergonomic hazards to which workers may be exposed, particularly the ones leading to back injury, and design a plan to address this concern and prevent future injuries.
Design a plan to prevent exposure to biological hazards in your workforce.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your paper.
Required Reading
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Foodborne germs and illnesses. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019). Division of vector-borne diseases (DVBD). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019). Preparing the nation to address vector-borne diseases threats. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/about/prepare-nation.html
Keyserling, W. M. (2011). Section IV.27: Occupational ergonomics: Promoting safety and health through work design. In Levy, B. S., Wegman, D. H., Baron, S. L., &Sokas, R. K. (Eds.). In Occupational and environmental health: Recognizing and preventing disease and injury (6th ed., pp. 591-603). New York: Oxford University Press.
Montano, D. (2014). Chemical and biological work-related risks across occupations in Europe: A review. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 9: 28-41.
Painter, J. A., Hoekstra, R. M., Ayers, T., Tauxe, R. V., Braden, C. R., Angulo F. J., et al. (2013). Attribution of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths to food commodities by using outbreak data, United States, 1998–2008. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(3): 407-415.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2019). About pesticides. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/index.htm
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