ASSE Academic Forum

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Exploring the evolving relationships between
safety and security.

• ASSE Academic Forum
• June 15, 2011
• Chicago, IL
• Jim Ramsay, PhD, CSP
• Mike OToole, PhD

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Overview

• Characteristics of safety and health.
• What are the accreditation requirements for
  safety, health and environmental programs
  according to ABET?
• Characteristics of security.
• What are the learning outcomes forhomeland
  security.
• Is there a way to tie the two fields together?

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How to define Safety?as a profession

• They use qualitative and quantitative analysis
  of simple and complex products, systems,
  operations, and activities to identify hazards.
  They evaluate the hazards to identify what events
  can occur and the likelihood of occurrence,
  severity of results, risk (a combination of
  probability and severity), and cost.
• Besides knowledge of a wide range of hazards,
  controls, and safety assessment methods, safety
  professionals must have knowledge of physical,
  chemical, biological and behavioral sciences,
  mathematics, business, training and educational
  techniques, engineering concepts, and particular
  kinds of operations (construction, manufacturing,
  transportation, and other like industries).
• From BCSP.org (Dec 5, 2010)

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ABET ASAC SHE Standards

• Anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and develop
  control strategies for hazardous conditions and
  work practices.
• Demonstrate the application of business and risk
  management concepts.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental
  aspects of safety, industrial hygiene,
  environmental science, fire science, hazardous
  materials, emergency management, ergonomics
  and/or human factors.
• Design and evaluate safety, health, and/or
  environmental programs.

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ABET ASAC SHE Standards

1. Apply adult learning theory to safety training
   methodology.
2. Identify and apply applicable standards,
   regulations, codes.
3. Conduct accident investigations and analyses.
4. Apply principles of safety and health in a
   non-academic setting through an intern,
   cooperative, or supervised experience.

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Safety Summarized

• Safety is a social science profession that
  applies risk management tools and concepts to
  protect people, property and the environment from
  hazards risks.

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Homeland Security

• The assessment and management of risk underlies
  the full spectrum of our homeland security
  activities We must apply a risk-based framework
  across all homeland security efforts in order to
  identify and assess potential hazards (including
  their downstream effects), determine what levels
  of relative risk are acceptable, and prioritize
  and allocate resources among all homeland
  security partners We as a Nation must organize
  and help mature the profession of risk management
  by adopting common risk analysis principles and
  standards
• pg 41 of the US National Strategy for Homeland
  Security.

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HS Education Standards

1. Intelligence - A systematic process of
   collection, analysis, and dissemination of
   information in support of national, state, and/or
   local policy or strategy.
2. Law Policy - Legal and policy formulations that
   provide the basic direction of HS means and
   objectives and establish a context for homeland
   security within the broader purview of national
   security.
3. Risk Analysis - A systematic method of
   identifying the infrastructures, and key
   resources (e.g., CI/KR) of the US, the threats
   (i.e., strategic, political, economic,
   technological, or cultural) to those CI/KR, and
   the vulnerability of the US to those threats in
   such a way as to be able to quantify threats and
   their consequences to the US for the purpose of
   developing appropriate countermeasures.

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HS Education Standards

• Emergency Management - The process of
  coordinating available resources to deal with
  emergencies effectively, thereby saving lives,
  avoiding injury or illness, and minimizing
  economic losses. This protection process
  involves four phases that are reinforcing and
  mutually dependent preparedness, response,
  mitigation, and recovery.
• Critical Infrastructure - Systems and resources,
  whether physical or virtual, so vital to the US
  that the incapacity or destruction of such
  systems and resources would have a debilitating
  impact on security, national economic security,
  national public health or safety, or any
  combination of these.

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HS Education Standards

• Strategic Planning - The process of defining an
  organizations strategy (a long term plan of
  action designed to achieve a particular goal or
  objective) or direction and making decisions on
  allocating its resources to pursue this strategy,
  including its capital, its technology and its
  human resources.
• Terrorism - The threat of violence, individual
  acts of violence, or a campaign of violence
  designed primarily to instill fear. Terrorism is
  violence for effect not only and sometimes not
  at all for the effect on the actualvictims of
  the terrorists cause. Fear is the
  intendedeffect, not the by-product of terrorism.
  

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HS Education Standards

1. Strategic Communication An effects-based
   approach of synchronized themes and messages
   designed to enable the implementation of the
   national elements of power to include but
   limited to diplomatic, intelligence, military,
   economic, financial, information and law
   enforcement, toward the accomplishment of
   national and homeland security objectives.
2. Environmental Security - A process for
   effectively responding to changing environmental
   conditions that have the potential to destabilize
   the political economyor governmental
   infrastructure of a nation or regionwhich
   reduces peace and stability and thereby
   affectsUS national security.

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Differences?

1. Whereas SHE typically operates at the worksite,
   HS typically operates at the national level..
   But
2. OSHA / NIOSH / CDC support community health and
   safety programs.
3. DHS believes that like all emergencies, community
   preparedness is the key to national security.
4. Tho safety has an LE component thru compliance,
   its rather different than the CT/COIN and LE
   components of HS.

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Shared Principles

1. Both use risk management principles and concepts
   pre-emptive andanticipatory.
2. Both target protection of people property the
   environment to man-made and natural threats,
   risks, hazards.
3. Both work with the field of emergency management
   and preparedness.

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Shared Principles

1. Both are broad field, applied social sciences.
2. Both are central to thesmooth functioning of
   theU.S. economy.
3. Both are central to the ongoingstability of
   critical infrastructure.
4. Both require ongoing CQI and exercises to be
   good.

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Operationally, Safety Security

• Both are human centered activities that use
  technology and systems thinking to obtain
  objectives.
• And. both run the risk of complacency and
  ineffectiveness due to a poor culture/human
  performance.

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Professional Areas of Overlap(Risk Management
CQI)
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Professional Areas of Overlap(EM)
Public Sector
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Professional Areas of Overlap(Public
Health/Pandemic)
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Professional Areas of Overlap(Chem/Bio/Rad/Nuc
WMD)
WMD
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Professional Areas of Overlap(Links to US
Economic Health)
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Thank you!