ABSTRACT
The safety professional is the member of organizational management responsible for the prevention of losses associated with employee safety and health. Through the implementation of various management and engineering principles, safety professionals anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control those hazards in the workplace that affect the health and well-being of employees (1). Over the past several decades safety professionals have taken great strides at eliminating unsafe conditions in the workplace. The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and engineering controls have steadily improved the safety professional’s ability to reduce injuries associated with these hazards. People-related hazards or unsafe acts, on the other hand, have posed a far more difficult challenge for the safety practitioner (2 and 3). This becomes especially apparent when examining the ever increasing number of ergonomic-related injuries and illnesses (4).
