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Small Business Safety Officer.

PB2003102264

Publication Date	2001
Personal Author	Fraser, M. E.
Page Count	152
Abstract	The vision of 'Small Business Safety Officer' is to provide a cost-savings portal for small businesses to integrate pollution prevention, cheaper and safer process alternatives and worker health and safety compliance into their business process. The specific goal of the Phase I program was to develop and evaluate a prototype containing a web-based expert-assisted system to generate an Intranet site to perform the following functions: determine applicable OSHA regulations; generate chemical hygiene and other safety plans; formulate policies such as chemical purchase, storage and disposal; perform medical recordkeeping; develop an accident and event reporting archive; create and operate a safety committee and emergency response team; provide ergonomics advice; generate forms; and host several advisor capabilities to provider safer and cheaper process alternatives. The prototype was to also create a general access safety web page to provide all employees with important safety information.
Keywords	Safety officers Small businesses Occupational safety and health Pollution prevention Business processes Compliance Intranet Cost savings Prototypes Regulations Web pages Safety information
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Corporate Authors	Mission Research Corp., Nashua, NH.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Rockville, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Rockville, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	200311

Small Business Safety Officer.

Small Business Safety Officer.
PB2003102264

Publication Date	2001
Personal Author	Fraser, M. E.
Page Count	152
Abstract	The vision of 'Small Business Safety Officer' is to provide a cost-savings portal for small businesses to integrate pollution prevention, cheaper and safer process alternatives and worker health and safety compliance into their business process. The specific goal of the Phase I program was to develop and evaluate a prototype containing a web-based expert-assisted system to generate an Intranet site to perform the following functions: determine applicable OSHA regulations; generate chemical hygiene and other safety plans; formulate policies such as chemical purchase, storage and disposal; perform medical recordkeeping; develop an accident and event reporting archive; create and operate a safety committee and emergency response team; provide ergonomics advice; generate forms; and host several advisor capabilities to provider safer and cheaper process alternatives. The prototype was to also create a general access safety web page to provide all employees with important safety information.
Keywords	Safety officers Small businesses Occupational safety and health Pollution prevention Business processes Compliance Intranet Cost savings Prototypes Regulations Web pages Safety information
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Corporate Authors	Mission Research Corp., Nashua, NH.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Rockville, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Rockville, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	200311