SHEM Reflection: Safety, Health, and Environmental Management

This report provides a reflection on safety, health, and environmental management (SHEM) within hazardous industries. It covers legal aspects, government regulations, and gender-specific challenges in these sectors. The report includes insights and learning reflections from guest speaker lectures on topics such as hazards in construction, product safety, safety training, gender challenges in hazardous industries, and occupational hygiene. Key learnings encompass managing safety systems in industries like oil and gas and construction, integrating safety and health into business practices, understanding different types of product hazards, and prioritizing safety training. The reflection concludes with the importance of proactive actions, communication, training, and rewarding employees for fostering a safe and healthy work environment. It emphasizes the value of the session in enhancing the author's knowledge and professional growth in health and safety management.

Reflection on Hazardous Industries
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Safety, Health and Environmental
Management

Introduction
• Hazardous industry nowadays are emphasized more on the
legal aspects like consumer protection, products certifications,
auditing and system certification
• Government agencies also that are concerned more towards
these standards
• Gender specific challenges in hazardous industries like a small
proportion of female are recruited in this industry are there

Expectations from the module
• Presently working as professional occupational health and
safety coordinator
• My work is to ensure the compliance of all the health and
safety regulations
• However, want to learn knowledge on handling the employee
management practices
• Thus, expectation is to implement these training needs in my
organizations for better outcomes

Insights and learning reflection about the 5 guest speaker lectures
• I liked that this session is that it started with statistical data
• Come to know that one has to take care of some severe health
hazards like industrial dermatitis
• Become more knowledgeable regarding the fact that in
constructions site ignorance leads to accidents during
excavations, grinding, cutting, welding
Hazards in Construction

Insights and learning reflection about the 5 guest speaker lectures
• I have learned in-depth overview about the significance of maintaining
product safety for environmental and technological progress
• I have observed that product safety is constituted with five major steps
• The research and development team has to test the product regarding its
authenticity
Product Safety
• Based on the certificate the business authority tends to make
a systematic inspection for verifying the product certification
• After auditing if the authority tends to provide confirmation
certificate the entire process of product delivery is confirmed

Insights and learning reflection about the 5 guest speaker lectures
• I have received an in-depth knowledge on how to reduce workplace hazards by receiving effective
safety training
• I have learned knowledge regarding detailed understanding about the frequent reasons due to which
workplace hazards take place
• I have learnt that injuries and medical emergency is the most significant workplace hazard that the
employees have to face very frequently
• I have gone through from this module that along with providing effective training and development
session the business experts needs to implement health and safety act at the workplace strictly.
Safety Training In Hazardous Industries

Insights and learning reflection about the 5 guest speaker lectures
• I have learnt deep insight on how oil and gas industry becomes gender specific for avoiding
workplace hazards
• I have observed that every oil and gas sector intends to implement effective survival
training within business process for avoiding any kind of workplace hazards
• I have learnt from the module that hostile environment awareness training is highly
significant with the help of which the employees can gather professional skills for avoiding
geographic challenges
• I have received a lesson on how effective training and development session is helpful in
enabling female employees within services.
Gender specific challenges in hazardous industries

Insights and learning reflection about the 5 guest speaker lectures
• I have learned that workers, who are recruited for maintaining the workplace hygiene, have to segregate the
total job roles in several days.
• I have also learn that the person needs to monitor the equipments at regular interval of time and the time
interval can vary between 30 minutes to 2 hours.
• I have also learnt that professionals need to collect the sample if they find any discrepancies, properly label
the collected samples, sometimes clean the equipment and pack necessary tool needed for further
investigation
• I will also be able to make report on equipment investigation for ensuring the health and safety of the
employees.
Occupational Hygiene

Reflection summary
• I have learnt more specific knowledge for managing the handling safety system in
hazardous industry like oil and gas sector and construction industry
• I have also acquired the knowledge for obtaining safety and health aspects as an integral
part of the business through the measures of proactive actions, communication, training
and rewarding employees.
• I have learned that organization nowadays focused more on consumer protection,
sustainable development and digital transformation.
• I have also learned about the different type of hazards occurred from products which
includes electrical hazard, radiation hazard, thermal hazard, chemical hazard and
mechanical hazard.
• I have learned the order of the training according to the priority.
• I will now ensure all the necessary aspects suggested in this session will be followed while
preparing maintenance reports.

Conclusion
• I can conclude that the overall experience of this session is an
exciting and promising for me.
• This session helped me to assess what is required and what I
have followed in my occupation regarding health and safety
management.
• I can say that the knowledge I possessed earlier and the
knowledge that I gather through this session combined together
will help me to prosper in my career.

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