Martin, my 30+ years experience in Product Safety leads me to believe that the advantages of a common group/management would outweigh the disadvantages. First, a H&S department deals with many more issues than you listed including all worker safety regulations, standards and practices. On top of that, training of employees is required. Being a manager of Product Safety, I cannot imagine trying to keep up to date with all of the H&S regulations. standards, practices and employee training as well as all of the regulations and standards for Product Safety. Or course, a common grouping might make sense in a very small company, but not for one like ours where we have hundreds of employees in diverse area such as engineering and manufacturing.
Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International -----Original Message----- From: marti...@appliedbiosystems.com [mailto:marti...@appliedbiosystems.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:14 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Combining of Compliance Engineering and Environmental Health and Safety Greetings, Our company is considering merging Compliance Engineering with Environmental Health and Safety. Compliance engineering is responsible for product safety and EMC as well as handling product liability issues. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) develops and implements chemical regulations. They focus on toxic substances and chemical regulations. Does anyone have any experience with a similar organizational set-up? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? How could this structure benefit the company as opposed to leaving them as two separate departments? Currently, the EHS Department reports to Quality. Would it make better sense for EHS Department to report to Compliance versus Quality? All responses are greatly appreciated. Regards Joe Martin EMC/Product Safety Engineer ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
