Category: Management

Health Hazards Associated with the Production Line in a Manufacturing Facility

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You have been tasked with identifying health hazards associated with a production line at a manufacturing facility.
Employees at the beginning of the line use a solvent to clean the surface of medium-size auto parts, and then they place the parts on a moving line. As the parts move along the line, an employee sprays them with a powder coating, and the parts move through an oven. Another employee removes the parts from the line and places them in slots in a cart for transporting to shipping.
You have been provided safety data sheets for the solvent used for cleaning the parts and the powder coating that is used. Use the Basic Job Hazard Analysis form to identify the potential health hazards associated with the process. You will use the Basic Job Hazard Analysis form to enter your responses and to answer the four questions listed below. Please upload this completed document to your instructor for grading.
Prepare a two-page homework assignment summarizing your health hazard analysis and answer these questions from the Basic Job Hazard Analysis form.
What are the health hazards associated with the operation?
What are the primary exposure routes associated with each health hazard?
Are there any potential acute or chronic health effects for any of the health hazards you identified?
Are special hazards associated with any of the health hazards?
You may use the safety data sheets provided above, information from the OSHA or NIOSH websites, or academic references from the Internet to answer the questions. Citations are not required for this homework assignment; however you may want to use them in order to answer the questions.

Evaluating Employee Exposures to Methyl n-Amyl Ketone during a Painting Operation

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You are asked to evaluate employees’ exposures to methyl n-amyl ketone during a painting operation. After careful consideration, you choose NIOSH Method 2553 for the sampling. You can access the method by clicking the link below:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. (2003). Ketones II: Method 2553. In P. M. Eiler & M. E. Cassinelli (Eds.), NIOSH manual of analytical methods (4th ed.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-154/pdfs/2553.pdf
Your pre-sampling and post-sampling pump calibrations using a primary standard are both 0.05 L/min. You collect personal samples on two employees working in the operation. The samples are collected for 430 minutes (Sample 1) and 440 minutes (Sample 2).
Calculate the sample volumes for each of the samples. The laboratory reports that the front section of Sample 1 contains 5,000 µg of methyl n-amyl ketone and the back section contains 200 µg of methyl n-amyl ketone. The front section of Sample 2 contains 4,000 µg of methyl n-amyl ketone and the back section contains 50 µg of methyl n-amyl ketone. Neither the front nor back sections of the field blank you supplied contain any detectable levels of methyl n-amyl ketone.
Calculate the concentrations of the two personal samples in µg/L and mg/m³.
Convert the result to ppm (MW for methyl n-amyl ketone = 114.2). Note: Use the ideal gas constant of 24.45.
Show all the steps for your calculations.
You then reference OSHA’s Table Z-1 and find that the 8-hour TWA PEL for methyl n-amyl ketone is 100 ppm.
Discuss how the results of the two personal samples you collected compare to the OSHA PEL and describe the sampling method you implemented.
You also look up the ACGIH TLV for methyl n-amyl ketone and find that the TLV is 50 ppm as an 8-hour TWA exposure.
Discuss how the results for the two personal samples compare to the ACGIH TLV.
Discuss whether you would recommend comparing the results of your sampling to the OSHA PEL or the ACGIH TLV. Include your rationale for the choice.
Explain how you believe using stricter OELs, like the TLV, could affect other OSH programs at the facility.
Discuss the regulatory background of industrial hygiene. Describe how the major industrial hygiene organizations influence the practice of industrial hygiene, and relate it to this case.
The case study should be at least three pages in length, and you should cite the NIOSH document using APA Style.

 

 

 

Interagency Emergency Management: NIMS and NRF

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Overview: The NRF is the Nation’s blueprint for responding to all-hazards events. It explains how responders, at all levels, effectively manage and conduct all-hazards response consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s national security objectives. NIMS, the companion document to the NRF, takes a comprehensive, consistent national approach to incident management. It gives first responders at all levels the common structure, concepts, principles, and language to effectively prepare for, prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of any incident, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity. Analyze and apply the assigned weekly reading and conduct additional research for to complete this discussion

Assignment: Discuss the following: (1) Purpose and scope of NIMS; (2) NIMS three major components and explain which you feel is most important to interagency emergency management; (3) NIMS three guiding principles and explain which you feel is most important to interagency emergency management; (4) Purpose and scope of NRF; (5) NRF guiding principles and explain which you feel is most important to interagency emergency management; (6) List three Federal Government roles you feel is most important to interagency EM; (7) Discuss obstacles that might inhibit interagency cooperation at the Federal level, and what are the consequences of the lack of interagency cooperation on emergency management. Remember if you use sources, you must cite them.