Describe the role of leadership skills in managing health and safety in this workplace.

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The SLP for this course is based on a manufacturing company of your choice. The facility employs at least 75 workers. You are the Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Manager for this company. Your task is to develop aspects of a health and safety program that addresses worker injury and illness prevention, as well as environmental health and safety protection.

In this SLP, you will address the role of leadership skills and workplace teams in the improvement of health and safety in the workplace, in the occupational setting of your SLP. You will also address the role of partnerships in health and safety at your facility.

Your Tasks for This Assignment: In spite of your efforts, there has been recent increases in reported injuries, and many workers are losing work days, mostly due to ergonomic injuries, such as sprained backs:

  1. Describe the role of leadership skills in managing health and safety in this workplace.
  2. Apply concepts of transformational leadership to describe how you would manage health and safety in this company, at a time when change is needed.
  3. Describe the role that workplace teams can play in assessing and reducing hazards that are resulting in injuries.
  4. Examine 3 strategies you would use to motivate these teams.
  5. Examine the role of 2 community partners that you will include on an on-going basis to get involved in preventing health and safety risks to workers and risks to the surrounding community; illustrate with specific examples.
  6. Identify 2 community partners that you will keep informed of emergency situations; examine their role in protecting the community.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

Length: The SLP assignment should be 8-10 pages long (double-spaced).

References: At least six references must be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles), required readings excluded. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation.

Required Reading

Antweiler, W. (2014). Elements of environmental management. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Divison. Read: Chapter 4: Life cycle assessment (pp.103-115); and Chapter 6: Environmental impact assessment (pp. 163-180).

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 6: Participants in environmental management. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 7: Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Begun, L. & Malcolm, J. (2014). Leading public health: A competency framework. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. Read: Chapter 6: Engage diverse others in public health work (pp. 133-154); Chapter 7: Effectively wield power to increase the influence and impact of public health (pp. 155-182); and Chapter 10: Lifelong leadership development (pp. 233-252).

Gamboa-Maldonado, T., Marshak, H. H., Sinclair, R., Montgomery, S., & Dyjack, D. T. (2012). Building capacity for community disaster preparedness: A call for collaboration between public environmental health and emergency preparedness and response programs. Journal of Environmental Health, 75(2), 24-29.

Healey, B. J., & Walker, K. T. (2009). Chapter 16: Impacts of leadership and culture. In Public health/environmental health: Introduction to occupational health in public health practice. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass.

Hooke, W., & Rogers, P. G. (2005). Chapter 1: Linking hazards and public health: Communication and environmental health. In Public health risks of disasters: Communication, infrastructure, and preparedness. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press.

Tompa, E., Dolinschi, R., & Natale, J. (2013). Economic evaluation of a participatory ergonomics intervention in a textile plant. Applied Ergonomics, 44(3), 480-487.

Optional Reading

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 13: Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Hooke, W., & Rogers, P. G. (2005). Chapter 3: Preparedness and response: Systems, supplies, staff and space. In Public health risks of disasters: Communication, infrastructure, and preparedness. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press.

Karadzinska-Bislimovska, J., Minov, J., Stoleski, S., Mijakoski, D., Risteska-Kuc, S., & Milkovska, S. (2010). Environmental and occupational health risks among agricultural workers living in a rural community near petroleum refinery and motorway in Skopje region. Arhiv Za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju, 61(4), 415-424.

Lekka, C., & Sugden, C. (2011). The successes and challenges of implementing high reliability principles: A case study of a UK oil refinery. Process safety and environmental protection, 89(6), 443-45.

Makin, A. M., & Winder, C. (2008). A new conceptual framework to improve the application of occupational health and safety management systems. Safety Science, 46(6), 935-948.

Mol, J. J. W. (1999). An analysis of the remediation of oil contaminated refinery sites. Environmental Management and Health,10(1), 37-40.

 
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