Chapter 8The Changing Roles of Safety Personnel.ppt

Occupational Safety Management and Engineering职业安全管理与工程 2011 年 4 月 Chapter 8 The Changing Roles of Safety Personnel 孙月峰 E-mail: sunyf915@163.com Sir Humphrey Davy’s miner’s lamp can be considered the first technical advance in accident prevention that was deliberately sought because a hazard urgently needed controlling. Unguarded belts and machines Unguarded rollers 8.1 Safety Laws and Safety Engineers 8.2 Safety Personnel 8.3 “Safety Man” 8.4 Safety Engineer 8.5 Production and Processing Losses 8.6 Growing Areas within Safety Chapter 8 The Changing Roles of Safety Personnel Introduction Learning Objective: The student should be able to identify current dynamics affecting the roles. Summary: The roles played by safety personnel continue to change with time, because of changes in laws and technology. Workers’ compensation, labor laws and safety codes were followed by the OSHAct. The changing priorities of safety engineers now includes not only protection of personnel, but also protection of the environment. Workers’ compensation supposedly would spur increased safety, but it did even less toward that end than did insurance companies and litigation of the times. The growth of the labor laws and safety codes after Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed office increased demands for safety personnel. This demand grew with the involvement of the United States in the Second World War. 8.1 Safety Laws and Safety Engineers 8.1 Safety Laws and Safety Engineers F·D·R: 1933年3月4日，富兰克林·德兰诺·罗斯福(1882-1945)就任美国总统(1933.3.4-1937.1.20)。以后他打破美国惯例，又连续3次蝉联总统。罗斯福第一次就任总统时，正值1929年资本主义世界爆发经济危机后全面萧条时期。罗斯福提出了一系列“新政”措施，其核心是3R：改革(Reform)、复兴(Recovery)和救济(Relief)，促进垄断资本和国家的联结。 He had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery. FDRs friend, Ray Moley, saying that there was nothing flabby about his charm: When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless. The next great advance took place with the passage of the OSHAct and of the OSHA standards. The standards required