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Enterprise Risk
Management and
Occupational Safety
Many times when thinking about occupational safety, physical controls or personal
protective equipment (PPE) comes to mind. Control mechanisms and PPE are the
tools and equipment used to secure your assets or protect an employee, but is this
occupational safety management? For the purposes of this text, occupational safety
management is much larger than identifying a lockout–tagout procedure for your
energized equipment. Occupational safety management is a comprehensive manage-
ment process using critical thinking within an operational framework to implement
and operate a system of safety ...