Occupational Health and Safety: Lockout, Ergonomics, Health and Safety Committee, Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management

This document discusses the importance of Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) programs in providing a safe and healthy work environment. It covers topics such as lockout, ergonomics, health and safety committee, and emergency preparedness and crisis management. The document also includes a discussion on achieving a positive safety culture in organizations.

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Contents
Assignment 3...................................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Part A: Lockout or Ergonomics...................................................................................................4
Part B: Health and Safety Committee and Inspection and Auditing Plan...................................5
Part C: Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management..........................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................6
Assessment 5...................................................................................................................................7
Introduction..................................................................................................................................7
Part A: Achieving a Positive Safety Culture...............................................................................7
Part B: Reflective Summary........................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Assignment 3
Introduction
Occupational Health and Safety (OSH), in a likely manner, is typically identified with a world
related prosperity and providing a safe working environment that is concerned with the
wellbeing, and welfare of employees at work. These announcements likewise identify with the
finishes of the territory, so their motivation in the significance of the piece was in starting a
shortened form of world related security and programs for wellbeing and so all. The goals of
Occupational Health and Safety programs is to permit in advance to provide a sheltered and
sound business condition. Occupational Health and Safety is always concerned for the
employees working for any organization. It doesn’t want any employee to choose anything one
between his life and his job. OSH may likewise help collaborators, relatives, bosses, customers,
and other persons who may get affected by this kind of working environment and circumstances.
OSH is devoted to singular security and welfare to carry with it to improve collaboration asset
instruments and assets, share information with laborers and bosses and giving instructions to
them for their rights and duties. OSHA supervises Susan B. Harwood awards to charitable
companies to prepare laborers and businesses to perceive, avert, and be careful and wellbeing
dangers at the work environment. Safety managers focus on small ventures, laborers and high-
risk enterprises.
The purpose of occupational safety and wellness programs allow promoting good and healthy
business environment. (www.ornl.gov.) OSH also assists workers, family persons, employers,
clients, and some others who may be impacted by this work environment. In US, this period
OHS is known as occupational well-being and activity and non-occupational safe and includes
safe for actions outside of a job. It built norms to provide safety to employees against any miss
happening.
Occupational health and security could be a multidisciplinary space involved the security,
health, and welfare of humans at work. The objectives of activity protection and fitness

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programs comprehend to provide a secure and healthful work atmosphere. the basic center
of attention in activity fitness is on 3 exclusive objectives: (i) the preservation and to
promote of laborers’ health operating and dealing} capacity; (ii) the advancement of
working atmosphere and work to grow to be more conducive for safety and fitness and (iii)
developing work agencies and dealing cultures during a path that helps health and safety at
work and in doing thus additionally promotes an advantageous social native weather
and swish operation and might also beautify fruitfulness of the corporate. Labor department
of US has prepared an administration to provide safe working environment to employees.
Occupational Health and Safety Plan of "Best Buy":
The "Best Buy" Occupational Health and Safety plan consists of different principles that serve as
guidelines for action. Senior administration will be dedicated to assure that this term is carried
out without any exceptions. The policy of health and safety will take the same value for the
different terms of the organization. Duty may be described as the individual's Responsibility to
be carried through given responsibilities. Authority manager will take all decisions and the
ability to address others. Duties and authorities will be assigned to employees, by giving them
the position to perform for superiors. It is very important to note that, while some duties maybe
assigned, the quality department will stay responsible for realizing that they are carried out.
Part A: Lockout or Ergonomics
Injury Prevention Plan
"Best Buy" OSHA encourages all employers to accept the accident and sickness Prevention
system. Trauma and sickness Prevention Programs, recognized by a variety of families, are
general treatments that will substantially reduce the amount and severity of workplace injuries
and relieve the related financial burdens of Best Buy. Best Buy has requirements or voluntary
guidelines for "Best Buy" trauma and sickness Prevention program. Most successful accident and
sickness Prevention Programs are from a common set of important components. These include:
Organization ability, individual involvement, risk recognition, risk prevention, and control,
education and training, and curriculum evaluation and transformation.
Lockouts
Lockouts are some programs that are prepared by employers at work place. In this, employers
don’t allow employees to enter at workplace if they don’t get agree to some conditions. These
conditions are set to provide life safety to employees. It is a tact of employer to stop labor
unions to ensure healthy work environment.
In 1981, in US, a union of Professional Air Traffic Controllers did a strike for better working
conditions. But because of their strike all workings got hindered. Then, this Lockout system
came. In this all employees who were on strike got replaced. This was done to maintain the
healthy working environment of the organization.

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Lockouts are helpful in case you find in your organization that employees union is taking
advantage of their unions. At work place, employees should be bound to follow some
predetermined guidelines. Each employee should be clear for his duties and responsibilities.
They should be well known to what the results will be if they hinder the working of organization
due to any union activity.
Ergonomics
If you're guessing that should take everyone's work, you're good. Everyone in the organization
oversees the ergonomics process and everyone takes the knowledge and tools to successfully
perform their part. In this process and fulfill their obligations. That starts for the CEO and leaders
squad the whole way down the organization to the team members out on the work floor. Training
aims for ergonomics awareness training for employees should make recognition of technology
issues at the workstation level. Employees are the actual workplace condition experts. The
attractive the ergonomics training session would inspire them to participate in the ergonomics
process and make their experience a bit easier regularly. The Team lead conducts meetings and
do assessments regular in the workplace. Engineers apply good ergonomic design in the
specification, selection, layout, and modification of equipment, tools, and workplaces to ensure
designs that they are at low MSD risk. And, Ergonomics Coordinators manages remedial care,
office claims, injuries, return to work, and injury reporting and also provides technical
assistance.
The device used for life isolating is able of being locked out if it gets the hasp or additional ways
of connection because of which, the mechanism may be affixed, or it has a mechanism to lock
automatically built into it.
These devices can be locked out if lockout will be accomplished without necessary removable
build, or without change of this life isolating device or permanently male any alterations in its
energy control capability... This device physically prevents the communication or action of life,
including but it is not limited to the following aspects:
The manually controlled electric circuit breaker;
the disconnect control;
the manually controlled switch by which the path conductors may be get disconnected from all
supply conductors that are passed underground, and, also, no end can be controlled
independently; a line device; a block; and any a related device is used to prevent it.

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Part B: Health and Safety Committee and Inspection and
Auditing Plan
Health and safety Committee always keep a check on the activities of the organizations to
provide protection to employees against any harm or accident. The federal government with the
help of these committees offers many profitable plans to business units. A work Opportunity Tax
Credit program came through which businesses can claim tax deduction if they hire employees
of some groups of employees created by health and safety committees. They include those
employees to these groups who are facing some issues in getting employment. The federation
makes a deal with the HR departments of organizations that tax credits will be provided if they
pay attention towards these groups for hiring.
These committees also ensure that the organizations are giving adequate training and education
to its employees to make them capable to complete in this world economy. These auditing plans
proposed under different programs helps giving employees an environment that increases their
capabilities and education. It ensures to provide jobs to the people who are jobless.
Part C: Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management
Crisis management and Emergency preparedness plans are formulated to provide safety to the
employees against any natural calamities. In the organizations, an Emergency Response Team is
formed to provide all necessary facilities in case any accident happens. These teams are so well
trained that if any unfavorable situation occurs, it immediately responds.
During Earthquake, Specific attention is given to items that are or are most likely to cause into
dangerous or bad conditions because of strain, wear, effect, movement, temperature, corrosion, a
chemical reaction or misuse.
Safety Committee will include regions such as where no job is done regularly, e.g., parking lots,
sleep areas, staff storage fields and locker rooms to ensure the evacuation of responders and all
workers. "Best Buy" has a kind of inspections at changing times.
There are formal monthly safety tour ensures the cost plan. After control of Crisis, weekly round
are conducted by the safety committee. Outside inspectors may show up just annually or twice
annually, dependent on the need of recovery from the crisis. In another crisis like Spill response,
all proper protective clothings, equipments for safety and cleaning up materials are available for
spill cleaning like gloves, respirators and all.

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Also, a complete explanation about how to use it properly; appropriate zones for evacuation are
made and process; disposal containers for spill cleaning materials; and the first aid processes
are done.
Every responders group is led by a leader who trains the responders how to make quick actions
in emergency situations. He guides his co-workers for every step and assigns duties and
responsibilities to each responder so that at the time of emergency each and every person is
aware of what he is supposed to do.
As this crisis management can take up billions of dollars. In order, to maintain the cost bearing
tax payments are done annually under the national business Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
systems. A business leader, partner with HR leaders in the organization to focus on new ways to
encourage value reduction through tax credits. (Stimpson, J., Nov. 2017).
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(Jul. 2018). Lockout. Britannica. Retrieved from www.britannica.com/topic/lockout
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Assessment 5
Introduction
This assignment is concerned with the development of different plans that provides
organizational safety culture. It ensures that the plan initiated is ethical from all point of views.
For this, having a clear mission, as what we want to achieve, is very important. There should be
pre-determined strategies as how we will achieve the vision.

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Part A: Achieving a Positive Safety Culture
Vision:
Occupational Safety and Health administration aims at ensuring a well-organized and healthy
work environment for employees in organizations. Aim to provide a safety work culture is to
give a feeling to our employees of being connected to organization. Different strategies can be
formulated to implement safety culture. These can be: time to time inspection at Best Buy,
getting employees feedback, making arrangement of all first aids facilities at workplace etc.
Lately, the term " workplace society " has become very fashionable. More than just the
buzzword, work culture relates to the way things are made in the work. Rather than relating to
the organization's preventive policy and system, the idea of safe attitude is encouraged by the
mindsets, attitudes and behaviors of employees, employers, leaders and management level of the
workplace.
The safety attitude in the workplace " Best Buy" is really a very important aspect of a successful
and efficient safety and health system. The goals of occupational safety and wellness programs
in " Best Buy "allow promoting a safe and a healthy business environment. OSH team also assist
workers working together, their family members, employers, clients, and some others also who
can be impacted by this workplace situation.
The committees of OSH also ensure that the organizations are giving adequate training and
education to its employees to make them capable to complete in this world economy.
These auditing plans proposed under different programs helps giving employees an environment
that increases their capabilities and education. It ensures to provide jobs to the people who are
jobless.
To assure a safety culture in organization, all employees, employers and other member of
company should work together to achieve safety objectives.
One of the main importance of OSH practitioner is to help the employees to be remain safe from
any kind of injury or illness. If any employee’s absence due to sickness does not affect work then
also OSH practitioner helps that employee to return to the work very soon and healthy. It creates
a sense of belongingness to the employee.
There are some helpful tips which can increase positive safety culture in the organization through
OSH:
1. Communication: Making talks periodically at work place increase a sense of safety.
Employers must communicate with their employees about all aspects of the company.
2. To Train Employees: An adequate training session should be given to employees to
make them aware of all technological or any other changes in business environment. It
helps in creating safety culture at workplace.

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3. A positive process to report: An employer must assure that all employees feel
comfortable while giving report. A positive safety culture will be very much easy if they
find reporting process positive.
4. Involvement Of employees: All employees of workplace should be involved in all
activities. They should be aware of what is going on at workplace. This creates a safety
environment and it is important for employee’s wellbeing.
Cultural Leadership Model:
For a positive Safety Culture in Best Buy, the leaders communicate effectively and politely with
all internal and external people coordinate well with each other and provides training to all.
These strategies are evaluated by the safety officer with the help of safety protocol checklist to
ensure the positivity of culture in Best Buy. Leadership model has its way to display a solid
responsibility to security, they get included and rouse others to have positive wellbeing practices.
On the off chance that security heads are reliable, they impact the wellbeing atmosphere and
after some time affect the wellbeing society
Part B: Reflective Summary
The "Best Buy" audit committee meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month starting at 9:00 am
at the Town Hall meeting assembly to discuss the plan of Inspection. The audit committee will
look on the Change or modify any rule or provision of the regulation about the usage, structure,
or modification of buildings or construction or the usage of earth, so that the spirit of the
ordinance is observed, Public safety and well-being guaranteed, and substantial justice made
during the crisis. The audit will be carried out with the help of database activities list. After one
audit is done, the buildings, structure, and usage of the earth will be re-audited by the senior
safety office to ensure the safety of the public during the crisis. The Safety manager will
overlook the performance of audit being carried out by the team and he will provide proper
training and knowledge about methods to utilize to ensure the audit is going good. Internal the
control system, like a support system, will encourage that audit is carrying out excellently. The
Safety manager will build- up positive relations with all to keep the positivity of the
environment.

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Lockout, the tactic of withholding work, typically employed by employers to hinder union
structure or to increase advantage in labor conflicts. It is much achieved by virtually locking
employees out of the work, but it may also be accomplished through job stoppage, layoffs, or the
hiring of nonunion substitute workers. (Britannica) The lockout procedure of gas cylinder at
"Best Buy "is planning for any chance of lockout by identification of energy sources, switches,
etc. It is used for the employee for making the eatable items. There can be a risk of fire is
misused or not used properly. In order, to ensure the safety of all where lockout is difficult, a
checklist in written sequence form is prepared for making equipment access, lockout, clearance,
release and start-up. Any external or employees can misuse the cylinders by locking out them
without proper protocol.
One of the abnormal use equipment in "Best Buy" is Pulling fuses are another option for
lockouts. Because a fuse is pulled doesn’t give guarantee that the circuit is completely dead.
Even if there any circuit is found dead then some another person could unintentionally use
different fuse. The employer can get shocked and can even cause fatal cause to them. In order, to
mitigate the risk, the equipments should be shut down normally by doing the switches turned off
and valves can be closed etc. Equipments are placed far from energy sources by disconnecting or
getting the sources of energy blocked.
The Lockout and energy preventing devices, by a padlock or any other device that is used for
locking that the worker is having control over as well as a tag that indicates that the equipments
have been shut down, will be implemented. All energy sources will be verified and all be
evacuated from a place. When all protocol is followed, the equipment is tested TEST IT! to
ensure the effectiveness of lockout.
Occupational Safety and Health takes every possible step to ensure that employees and working
environment at work place remains safe and healthy. Special acts have been prepared for
different states and areas who are far away from other employment facilities. The act of OSH
makes every federal agency responsible to provide safe and healthy workplace to workers.
Under OSH law, employers are held responsible if any employee feels any unsafe environment
at workplace. Following rules of OSH, employers-built crisis management and responders team
against any natural hazard. Special training is given to the responders of such groups so that they
can quickly take action against any unfavorable situation.
Education and training are provided to the employees for their welfare so that they can
understand their rights and also can get all important knowledge regarding work to compete
globally.
Occupational Safety and Health Act has fixed some standards for the protection of employees.
They are as such:
 It protects against deceases that can be infectious
 It prevents to use some harmful chemicals. These kinds of chemicals can be used under
specified conditions only.
 It imparts training to employees to understand different languages if necessary.

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 It ensures that machineries are used at workplace after a proper training and all tools are
properly guarded.
OSH ensures periodically inspections at work place to determine that all activities are done in
accordance to the act and standards. If they find employer to fail in achieving all these standards,
then a special inspection is done without giving any notice. For this, a special trained team is
formed who are highly educated. If OSH finds anything that is violating the rules, then corrective
action can be taken in form of fine or any other punishment.
Conclusion
Despite these challenges, the organization is poised to make substantial improvements at the
upcoming period at the life quality for all people who works there. Occupational safety and
welfare investigation have led to numerous alterations in workplaces and business procedures
that protects from any injury, illnesses, and deaths at work. Current investigation attempts to
determine new and greater ways to make better safety environment for workers. and to recognize
and address emerging risks. Additionally, scientists and partners have been working together to
understand and transmit research discoveries, technologies, and knowledge into extremely useful
treatments and products that can be readily incorporated into the workplace, resulting in more
direct improvements in the lives of workers.
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