Major Chemical Accidents: A Case Study

My current place of work provides policies and procedures about the use of protective equipment and how/when you must use them as PPE is essential when working within hazardous activities such as disposing of hazardous waste, preparing/handling meals, cleaning etc.

Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations

The provision and use of personal protective equipment could include using gloves, glasses, earmuffs, aprons, safety footwear, dust masks.

It is often recommended for (HCO)’s to have a corporate compliance plan to be more efficient, reduce errors, and not have small errors turn into large errors. As (OIG) it’s a necessary and fundamental need to incorporate a corporate compliance plan to have for staff and management to stay organized and lessen the chance of fraud, waste, and abuse in the company. Stated by, (Cleverly, Song, & Cleverly, 2011), it is effective only if it includes management support, effective communication, continuous monitoring, and individual accountability. All these aspects are a continual monitoring requirement as long the corporate compliance is in place for the duration.

Criteria 1.4: State why and when health and safety control equipment, identified by the principles of protection, should be used relating to types, purpose and limitations of each type, the work situation, occupational use and the general work environment, in relation to:

To adhere with policies and procedures of organisation and health and safety legislation; emergency first aid tasks carried out incorrectly can be dangerous/ increase risks to the individual.

Potential health and safety risks must be reported immediately to ones supervisor. It is up to the supervisor to use the chain of command and as needed it will even be reported to government offices.

The ANSI, or American National Standards Institute, is a non-profit that is designed specifically to oversee development of voluntary standards regarding everything from programs to products to personnel throughout the US (ANSI, 2012). The Z10 standard is focused on environmental health and safety, and provides requirements for management systems, along with guidelines that help improve EHS. The Z10 standards encompass many areas of EHS, including financial performance, health and safety, productivity, quality, and similar objectives in business (ANSI, 2012). There are seven section topics in the Z10, and also information for risk assessments that have not been included previously (ANSI,

Summarise the literature on Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems OHSAS 18001 and AZ/NZS 4801.

There are many events that have shaped the world we live in that are not commemorated or remembered. Memory is an event or thing that you remember from the past. Memory effects our everyday life because we need to remember simple things like going to school or wearing shoes. Evertown is a very nice community and there is the 185th anniversary and that there are a lot of people, places, and events in the community would like to be commemorated. The Evertown ET Chemical Company Spill 1976 should be commemorated for Evertown’s 185th anniversary.

The HSE demanded a statistical report and analysis of the laboratory data, which could be used as evidence of particular sectors of chemical industry causing potential health hazards for their employees. For the purpose of this analysis a sample of people coming from four different sectors of chemical industry had their blood tested for LDH-1 and LDH-5 levels (Intercellular enzyme that determines cell damage in various organs). The degree of organ damage, in this case liver damage, can be simply assessed by looking at the values of the ratio of those two enzymes: the higher the ratio of LDH-1 and LDH-5 is, the worse the degree of liver damage is (nurseslearning.com). This is how we can compare worker’s health state and

It is important it have a written work Health and Safety Policy for the organizations and businesses which have management systems. The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 addresses Major Hazard Facilities in Regulation 558 and Schedule 17(1.2) and requires that the Safety Management System includes a Safety Policy, including the operator’s broad aims in relation to the safe operation of the major hazard facility, and that the safety policy must include and express commitment to ongoing improvement of all aspects of the safety management system. A Work Health and Safety Policy is an explicit statement of business commitment to work health and safety. It will include a statement outlining the importance which is placed on work health and safety and how it is to be implemented.

3 pillars of effective internal audit services- independence and objectivitiy, proficiency, and due professional care.

Soren Chemical produces industrial strength chemicals, cleaning solutions, and chemical solutions for treating water. Since it’s founding in 1942, Soren has operated as a business-to-business company. They have recently introduced Coracle, a pool clarifier aimed at the consumer market. The goal for first year sales is $1.5 million. At 6 months, sales of Coracle are just $111,000.

Paying dividends will reduce the available funds of the company but is a way to increase shareholder value. Increasing or decreasing of DPR spells out the standing of the company to its shareholders. Reduction or not giving dividends for a period will reduce AFN but will mean that the company is struggling to provide enough profit. Shareholders may see this as a signal that further investments for the company are riskier.