Life Safety

Life Safety
1. Define life safety as related to fire safety programs. Organizations provide comprehensive fire safety programs to mitigate hazards involving fire in the workplace. As a safety and health manager for your organization, how would you build and train a cross-functional fire and safety committee to train employees to respond to fire dangers? What components would you include in your program? How would you ensure commitment to employee safety through your training?

Your essay should be at least 500 words in length and include an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. You must also use one outside source. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Goetsch, D. L. (2011). Occupational safety and health for technologists, engineers, and managers (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

3. Is the purpose of the article made clear in the introduction?

4. Do you find errors of fact and interpretation? (This is a good one! You won’t believe how

often authors misinterpret or misrepresent the work of others. You can check on this by looking

up for yourself the references the author cites.)

5. Is all of the discussion relevant?

6. Has the author cited the pertinent, and only the pertinent, literature? If the author has included

inconsequential references, or references that are not pertinent, suggest deleting them.

7. Have any ideas been overemphasized or underemphasized? Suggest specific revisions.

8. Should some sections of the manuscript be expanded, condensed or omitted?

9. Are the author’s statements clear? Challenge ambiguous statements. Suggest by examples how

clarity can be achieved, but do not merely substitute your style for the author’s.

10. What underlying assumptions does the author have?

11. Has the author been objective in his or her discussion of the topic?

In addition, here are some questions that are more specific to empirical/research articles. (Again,

use your discretion.)

1. Is the objective of the experiment or of the observations important for the field?

2. Are the experimental methods described adequately?

3. Are the study design and methods appropriate for the purposes of the study?

4. Have the procedures been presented in enough detail to enable a reader to duplicate them?

(Another good one! You’d be surprised at the respectable researchers who cut corners in their

writing on this point.)
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5. Scan and spot-check calculations. Are the statistical methods appropriate?

6. Do you find any content repeated or duplicated? A common fault is repetition in the text of

data in tables or figures. Suggest that tabular data be interpreted of summarized, nor merely

repeated, in the text.

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