Hazard analysis

a. I am a member of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety’s (SCDPS) Emergency Management Unit. The main issue I have as a team leader is developing emergency plans for “Hurricane Operations” while integrating multiple agencies and functions to effectively evacuate the coast. I need to develop a team who can serve multiple purposes and capabilities. Specifically, the ability to supply personnel to support more than 1200 traffic control points off of the coast and inland 90 miles. This…

D & H Mining, Inc. employed me for two months as an off side (return side) roof bolter at the No. 3 mine. Danny Tucker owns and operates the No. 3 mine and Gerald Ball is the section foreman. No. 3 mine produces coal with a continuous miner. The day shift worked from 7 am to 5 p.m., 10 hour shifts Monday through Thursday and eight hours on Fridays and every other Saturday. I carried the Personal Dust Monitor (PDM), when the company conducted dust surveys to measure the respirable dust…

Unexpected events that involved a significant amount of casualties are very stressful and require everybody's effort. For this reason, hospitals have in place a plan that will help the employees in these situations. My facility emergency response plan can be found online with all the policies and procedures. Accessing it is very easy. It is required that all employees know where to find this valuable information. Randomly the clinical coordinator will come on the floor and make sure that…

Additionally, the Response and Recovery go hand in hand. However, the Response portion of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Model refers to any activities that help to stop the spread of a disaster or emergency that is currently taking place (United States Department of Veterans Affairs, 2015). To better explain, Response is enacted at the same time the incident is taking place (Ryan, 309). There are three goals associated with an emergency response, the first is to protect the public, the…

importance of preparing for future adversity and these cultural qualities may translate an implicit fatalism into a degree of preparedness. The relationship between human beings and nature may also be viewed differently within different cultures. Natural hazards and disasters highlight, often graphically, our social dependence on one another. Yet we have to start somewhere, to find some thread to pull that may disentangle part of the knot. One such thread is how we, as individuals and as members…

skin. Figure 8:Biohazard symbol Biohazard Living organisms that may cause infection. Figure 9:Environmental hazard symbol Environmental Hazard These substances pollute the environment. Figure 10:Radiation symbol Radiation Radioactive substance. It may damage cells and can cause…

strongly recommended to use child-proof lighters and a deep ashtray to prevent the outbreak of a possible fire. 6. Should there be children, smokers should not have numerous lighters in the house. 7. During winter, children can be protected from a fire hazard by simply putting on night clothes labeled ‘ Low Fire Danger’. Taking safety precaution with the elderly As people age, they tend to be less observant, more forgetful and less agile than in their younger days. Older people require more…

Training procedures should be regularly reviewed and spot checks completed by management to ensure rules are being complied with. Workplace training should be a formal process and records kept. “Warnings concerning the hazard and training their employees to work with the hazard will help the employer to show that they have done their upmost to ensure a safe working environment.” (CII study text on Liability insurances, 2016). They will demonstrate successfully that they are using best practise…

Three theories of accident causation can be used to explain possible safety problems. Human factor theory is commonly used to explain accident causal by examining chain of events that can be traced to human error. Human factor theory focusses on three areas: overload, wrong activities, and wrong response. Human factor theory thus states that human error is the ultimate cause of safety problems. First, human error can happen because of overload. Overload is the imbalance between capacity and time…

Captain Bruemmer is assigned responsibility for the ship and her crew 24/7 when assigned to a ship. He is expected to meet all operatoinal commitments, changes to those commitments, Unit SITREPS, Medical UNFITS, training, TWIC/CAC card maintenance, physicals, attend meetings (mission, operational, grievance processing, EEO complaint processing, etc.) on and off the ship at all hours of the day, etc. All the while, he is still responsible for performing his official duties of Master; and in this…