AN UNANNOUNCED INSPECTIONTHE SITUATION: AN OSHA INSPECTOR ARRIVES AT YOUR WORKSITE REQUESTING TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT AN INSPECTION BASED ON THE HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPLAINTS
Unit VIII Case Study ScenariosSCENARIO # 1: An Unannounced InspectionThe Situation: An OSHA inspector arrives at your worksite requesting to talk with you about an inspection based on the health and safety complaints of a worker. You are in your office and the OSHA inspector is at the reception office. You know this worker to be a highly disgruntledindividual who is constantly questioning all aspects of his job and the work environment. Thearea he works in is currently undergoing a major renovation for a process change for theproduct in the line but it is still trying to produce the older version of the product at a lowervolume than before. Your area supervisor is a competent individual but they are working undera lot of stress with the changeover; therefore you are only 80% sure that the claims listed in thecomplaint are groundless and without merit. The worker is also heavily involved in an effort tounionize the plant employees. In addition your plant manager is in another state at corporateheadquarters for some important meetings.The Questions: How would you act what actions should you take and what would you do? Should you challenge the validity of the OSHA inspector’s request or their right to enter the workplace? Or should you request a warrant to enter the workplace and thereby gain sometime to make sure everything is in order back in the plant? Can you gain any time to check withyour in-area safety supervisor first? Or should you immediately comply with the request for theinspection? Explain your answers.SCENARIO # 2: Serious Near-Miss Crane IncidentThe Situation: You are the EH&S professional at your company’s shipyard. You have justreceived a call from a production supervisor that there has been a very serious near missaccident out in the assembly area. Your company is manufacturing the second Littoral CombatShip (LCS) for the US Navy. This new generation high speed trimaran design warship has been designed to carry out a wide range of tactical combat and support operations in the near-shore(littoral) environment. The project is severally over budget and has received a considerableamount of criticism for it. Successful completion of the project at this phase will be a primedeterminant in your companies securing the very lucrative follow-up contracts for more LCS’s.Everyone in the shipyard feels the pressure to complete this project ASAP.Apparently a very large 20 ton overhead crane had some cables snap and has partiallycollapsed while trying to hoist a large section of the vessel into place for its final weldingoperation. When you arrive on scene you see the section wedged overhead between somesupport beams and walkways. About a dozen hourly workers are scattered about as they leapedto safety after hearing the cables snap. There are many bumps bruises and scratches on theworkers but they all are able to be treated internally at your nurse’s office. In this initialassessment there appears to be no need for or request on the part of the employees to go toany outside medical consultant or hospital emergency room.Almost immediately you can hear the men complaining that the first attempt to lift the unit didnot work and then the production engineer’s decided to jury rig some extra cables to lift theunit in place. In addition one individual said that they were trying to hoist about 28-30 tons andthat was just too much for the old crane. Another offered that the cables themselves had notbeen changed out in a couple of years and that was against OSHA regulations. Everyone saidthat they could hear the unit groan and screech before the cables snapped and the cranepartially collapsed.Before you walk off with the supervisors to inspect the damage one of the workers offers theopinion that this is an imminent danger situation.
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