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Introduction. Safety of High Hazard Occupations. Safe 4900 D. Barber Summer 2008. Safety 4900. Introductions Background What is this course?. Introduction. Name Where you work Background Interest. Background. Safety Aspects of High Risk Activities

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  1. Introduction Safety of High Hazard Occupations Safe 4900 D. Barber Summer 2008

  2. Safety 4900 • Introductions • Background • What is this course?

  3. Introduction • Name • Where you work • Background • Interest

  4. Background • Safety Aspects of High Risk Activities • What is a belief? • Personality and Safety • Types of High Risk Activities

  5. Course Expectations • Participate • Treat each other with respect • Class Work on time • Draft work returned with comments • Complete work, don’t copy Safety 4900

  6. High Risk Jobs

  7. 80 fatalities per year

  8. Dangerous Jobs…

  9. Nanotechnology Hype or Hazard? Source: Synergist Magazine, April 2008

  10. Assignments • 2 Papers • In-Class Exercises • Safety Behavior Model (due on 6 July 08) • Final on content.

  11. Papers: • 1 – High Risk Technology, hazards and analysis. Length: 5-7 pages. • 2 – New Hazards – Regulations: adequate? inadequate. 5-7 pages

  12. Example Topics • Nanotechnology • Combustible dust • OSHA and Airlines • Teens and Summer Jobs • New Confined Space requirements

  13. Behavior Model Behavior Model, Your own design, explain, show application and usage. 5-7 pages

  14. The Obvious? High Risk Jobs…

  15. Fatality Rate: • 100 Per year Behaviors?

  16. Course Textbook: • Human Safety and • Risk Management 2nd ED. • Dr. Ian Glendon • CRC Press Safety 4900

  17. Chapters: • Chapter 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 • Please read these chapters

  18. What is Risk?

  19. Risk? • Public Risk vrs Personal Risk • Actual Risk and residual risk

  20. Behaviors and Risk • Is there a link?

  21. Psychology’s Role in Safety • Understanding the behaviors • Modeling the behaviors

  22. Questions? • Assignments? • Due Dates? • Tests • Class Work

  23. Unit 1, High Risk Technologies What is high Risk?

  24. Basis For Risk… • Rousseau: 1755 • Lisbon Earthquake >100,000 deaths 20,000 houses built in known Seismic location

  25. Risk • They recognized the risk of building the homes. Safety 4900 Unit 1

  26. Projects Risks

  27. High Reliability Organization • Organizations with fewer than normal accidents (organizations with fewer accidents) • Why does this happen? • Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents

  28. Characteristics… • Researchers have found that successful organizations in high-risk industries continually reinvent themselves • There are 5 characteristics of High Reliability Organizations: • Preoccupation with failure • Reluctance to simplify interpretations • Sensitivity to operations • Commitment to resilience • Deference to expertise

  29. Psychology’s Role • Worker Behavior • Criticism: Overly focused on blame • Model Accuracy • Training Effectiveness • Management Behavior? Safe 4900 Unit 1

  30. Management Behavior

  31. Influencing Management • Safety Culture • Safety Climate Safety 4900 Unit 1

  32. Human Error

  33. Changing world of Work • Less Social • Fragmentation of Work • Isolation of Workers • Less worker participation • Reduced Union representatives • Greater Management control Safety 4900 Unit 1

  34. Effect? • Greater Stress on Workers • More Accidents/Incidents Safety 4900 Unit 1

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