Industrial Accident Prevention

1. What is Safety Culture? 2. How does it impact the safety of a company/organization? 3. How do we change/improve a safety culture? Read Chapter 4 (Regulatory History) in Administations and Programs textbook 4. Who are the original authors of the OSH Act? 5. When, and by whom, was the OSH Act signed into law? 6. What date did the OSH Act (OSHA) take effect? 7. Who is charged with administering and enforcing the OSH Act? 8. What are the primary responsibilities for the following agencies? a) OSHA: b) OSHRC: c) NIOSH: d) BLS: e) NACOSH: 9. What are the major areas of authority for OSHA? (identify and briefly describe) 10. Who is NOT covered by OSHA (in other words, who is exempt), and why are they exempt? 11. What are the basic employer and employee duties/responsibilities under the OSH Act? 12. Both employers and employees are afforded rights under the OSH Act, identify two rights for each employers and employees (which ever you choose). 13. Where did the original set of OSHA standards come from? In other words, how did OSHA develop the very first standards in the first two years, before they were required to follow the rulemaking process. 14. Describe the process OSHA must go through to develop a new rule (standard). After looking at the PBS website, and after viewing the PBS Video on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in class 15. What was life like in New York City in 1911? 16. Describe the workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory? 17. What was management’s philosophy at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory? 18. How is it similar to the management philosophy at Mcwane? 19. What were the working conditions like at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory? 20. What caused the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911? 21. How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire change the public’s view of workplace safety in the U.S.? 22. How does the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire directly relate to the history of the federal US Department of Labor? (What later US DOL leaders witnessed the fire)?