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Ethics in Industrial Hygiene & Safety By Maharshi Mehta, ISS

Ethics in Industrial Hygiene & Safety AIHCE, Round Table 246 June 5, 2014

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Ethics in Industrial Hygiene & Safety By Maharshi Mehta, ISS

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  1. Ethics in Industrial Hygiene and Safety AIHCE, Round Table 246 June 5, 2014 Maharshi Mehta, CSP, CIH International Safety Systems, Inc., Washingtonville New York, USA www.issehs.com

  2. Agenda • Case Studies • Introduction to Ethics in Industrial Hygiene and Safety • Current Situation • The need • Professional • Personal • Attempt to bring ethical values in organization • Benefits - Case Studies • Conclusions www.issehs.com

  3. Case Study • First Construction Safety Job • “we don’t need you as safety officer, we are hiring you as client needs” • Laboratory analyzing samples • post weighing was less than pre-weighing

  4. Introduction • Most critical compared to all professions • Life of people depends on decisions we make • Considerable challenges where violations are likely • Code of ethics in IH and Safety is fairly clear and not ambiguous • Benefits are enormous – individual, employee, family, society and nation

  5. Current situation • Exposure control decisions seem to be made based on erroneous data at 50%+ workplaces • One or more of reproducible, representative and reliable data missing • Issues with sampling and analytical methods • Greed has no lid • Results are delivered what company or client is looking at some of the workplaces • Financial gains at the cost of integrity • Tangible and intangible losses are massive

  6. Issues with sampling and analytical methods • Collect more samples in limited time • Exposure numbers, no indication on what is contributing to exposure and what are recommendations • Reproducibility • 1 sample • Reliability • Calibration • Laboratories analyzing samples • Representativeness • Sampling durations • Focus on monitoring and not on exposure controls

  7. The Need-Professional • Impact on Stakeholders • Employee • Reputation • ABC Environmental company appeared in news when biological monitoring results were not communicated • Trust and integrity also travels in professional community at lighting speed • Financial and standard of living • Business Growth – word of mouth

  8. The Need-Other • Impact on family, society and nation • Family • Values in children and other family members • Bonding and benefits of bonding • Friends • Ever widening virtuous circle • Nation • Erosion of values • Economical impact • Impact on individual • Effective utilization of latent ability • Peace of mind • Growth

  9. What Brings Ethical Values in us • Parenting • Environment • Reading • The Ultimate Gift • To Kill a Mocking Bird • Audio-visual messages – TV Movies Media • Schools, teachers • Can we then apply same model at workplace? • At workplaces, completing ethics course wont be enough – aggressive efforts

  10. Business Ethics: Codes with our company • Premise • Business integrity earns respect and brings peace in our lives • Transparency and ethics have positive impact on generations to come • Codes • Do not give, receive bribe in any form cash, favor, kind, gift, % commission • Do not compromise on identified risk in reporting, among other things • Ensure sound basis

  11. Confidentiality Codes • Significance • Most Sensitive information • Client’s trust on us • Do not communicate verbally or in writing what you saw at site especially process details and findings with any one out side ISS and in ISS with affected persons only • Data protection: Password when you are not around in your laptop, no one should have access to your hard disk, place relevant information in centralized storage and delete from file • Digital images: • Obtain permission • Do not take if it does not serve purpose • Avoid taking entire process large area, take what you want • Do not show images to ANYONE. Delete them once purpose is served • Keep only good images and provide to Manager or centralized storage and then delete all images

  12. Team building Chill Trip • 3 days • Fun • Video and books reading • To Kill a Mocking Bird • Several books from Simple Truth • Discussions on near misses on business ethics

  13. Ethics by understanding workers and family are also Gods

  14. Ethics by understanding places of worships are workplaces and homes

  15. One can make decent living by following business ethicsThen – 1955 to 1980 ©International Safety Systems, Inc. www.issehs.com

  16. Now

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