The SLP for this course is based on a manufacturing company of your choice. The facility employs at least 75 workers. You are the Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Manager for this company. Your task is to develop aspects of a health and safety program that addresses worker injury and illness prevention, as well as environmental health and safety protection.

For this SLP, you will address sustainability practices in the company:

1. Design 2 strategies that you will utilize to contrast the value of preventing occupational risks over the value of compliance with occupational standards; give specific examples that you would use to illustrate your point to management.
2. Identify one way in which the company leaves an environmental impact (such as air pollution, water pollution, waste generation, soil contamination).
3. Compare 2 current ways by which the company addresses these environmental impacts, to 2 alternative strategies you propose to reduce the environmental footprint of this company’s operations.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

Length: The SLP assignment should be 3-5 pages long (double-spaced).

References: At least three references must be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). Required Reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)

Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

Format: APA format is recommended for this assignment.

Required Reading

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 4: Environmentalism, social sciences, economics, and environmental management. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Cunningham, T. R., Galloway-Williams, N., & Geller, E. S. (2010). Protecting the planet and its people: How do interventions to promote environmental sustainability and occupational safety and health overlap? Journal of Safety Research, 41(5), 407-416.

Gaussin, M., Hu, G., Abolghasem, S., Basu, S., Shankar, M. R., & Bidanda, B. (2013). Assessing the environmental footprint of manufactured products: A survey of current literature. International Journal of Production Economics, 146(2), 515-523.

Healey, B. J., & Walker, K. T. (2009). Chapter 5: Compliance versus prevention. In Introduction to occupational health in public health practice. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass.

Kiddee, P., Naidu, R., & Wong, M. H. (2013). Electronic waste management approaches: An overview. Electronic Waste Management, 33(5), 1237-1250.

Wei, L., & Liu, Y. (2012). Present status of e-waste disposal and recycling in China. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 16, 506-514.

Optional Reading

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 5: Environmental management, business and law. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 3: Environmental management and science. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 12: Pollution and waste management. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Claudio L. (2007). Waste couture: Environmental impact of the clothing industry. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(9), A449-454.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2013). Sustainability. Retrieved December 2, 2016, from http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/