Essays on Workplace Safety

Introduction

The management of the health, risks, and the occupational hazards form a crucial component of the organizational operations depending on the nature of the business. Every organization has systems to minimize the rates of adverse events and disasters within the company premises. It is the obligation of the human resources management to ensure that the systems are in place to observe precautions and hence prevent disastrous events which could cause injuries or lead to the loss of human lives. The activities and the functions of any organizations determine the precautionary measures employed to eradicate or minimize the probability of ...

Negotiating and the Collective Bargaining Process

Part 1 Leadership Management Partnership (LMP) The purpose of Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions (LMP)’s was to develop a joint strategy to develop organizational change and environment of continuous learning and improvement. In addition, it is linked to the involvement of employees in decision making. It is considered the largest and longest-operating partnership in the U.S. (Labor Management Partnership, 2017).

Union Name and Type of Union

One of the 28 unions in the partnership was United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 7, Professional and Health Care Division. As described earlier, the union was a local union just like other 27 ...

Implement and Monitor Work Health and Safety Practices

Written Assessment Learning Outline Within this resource, you will be covering the following key topics: Monitor and improve workplace operations. Plan and organise workflow. Monitor and support team members. Solve problems and make decisions. Using these key topics as a guide, you will work with your trainer/assessor to develop your skills and knowledge. The role of your trainer/assessor is to assist and guide you through your learning journey to achieve your goals.

Short answer written questions.

Projects As part of this written assessment you will need to access the following resources to support you in this assessment: E-Coach learning content Computer with internet ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety are associated with the safety, health, and welfare of employees who are engaged in work. It plays an important role in managing the company’s operations. The report addresses workplace hazards and provides information about the accidents and injuries occurred in the engineering industry. One of the main aims of the report is to indicate ways of mitigating the risk of loss. The purpose of this technical report is to demonstrate that the author has engineering knowledge, professional competence, and technical ability to carry out the essential research in detail about the health and safety ...

Statistics show that a large number of workers employed in office settings resort to taking time off work some time in their career owing to their schedules which tend to have damaging effects on their physique. A number of studies have highlighted the negative impacts of jobs which limit movement and also reduce the chance of exercise leading to a number of skeletal and muscular symptoms in office workers. Studies show that with furniture that has been designed to impart a higher level of comfort and also through programs that guide employees to have correct posture, muscular and skeletal ...

Fantasy Organization

Workplace safety is paramount in every organization, and OSHA requires that there should be OSH standards that have to be complied to ensure that the work environment is safe for the employees. Companies lose millions of dollars every year due to work-related injuries and penalties due to lack of compliance with this standard (Safety and Health Add Value, 2016). The US Department of Labor formulates safety policies, requires that every company comply with those regulations. Employee safety is often a priority for every company, and it is the role of the management to ensure that attaining the safety goals ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human Resource Management is responsible for attracting, selecting, recruiting, placing, recognizing, engaging, retaining and rewarding people while developing anticipated organizational culture and leadership, as well as, ensuring compliance with national and international labor and employment laws. Mostly, small to medium organizations manage their HRM activities by outsourcing their human resource functions to specialized HRM firms. Other hires few HR professionals. However, larger business corporations uphold an all-inclusive HRM functional division that is characteristically dedicated to the specialized tasks such as strategic recruitment and selection, employee engagement, and development of functional leadership across the business undertakings (Bratton & Gold, 2011, ...

Approximately 8 million healthcare workers in the U.S. are working in environments that place them at risk of exposure to hazardous drugs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). The risk to healthcare workers increases yearly as new non-antineoplastic pharmaceuticals are added to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s alert list of hazardous drugs (Connor, MacKenzie, DeBord, Trout & O’Callaghan, 2014). The addition of new hazardous drugs requires continually updating of procedures to prevent an increasing diverse range of potential exposures (Connor, et al., 2014). The purpose of this paper is to examine the study of ...

Part A: Personal Safety

Question 1 Hazard The personal safety hazard in scenario A is the unlocked front door and the open windows while the client is asleep. In scenario B is the client banging the seat on the train platform. In scenario C, the community member who yells abusive things to the support worker and his client and follows them around the shopping mall. In scenario D, the personal safety hazard is the uneven path that exists in the complex where the client lives. In scenario E, the arrival of all customers at once causing much commotion is the personal safety hazard. ...

Difference between Six Sigma and Lean

Six Sigma can be explained as the philosophy of management that is highly focused on the achievement of organization's objective, data collection, and examination of the outcome of the entire process to ensure the quality service and decrease in product imperfection. Sigma is a Greek word that is rarely used to indicate the difference from a standard but in the philosophy of management, Six Sigma is used as a methodology to eradicate faults from the manufacturing process to ensure the best quality of products. Six Sigma is classified into two parts namely, Six Sigma DMAIC and Six Sigma DMADV. ...

Following the guidelines of the course ID guidelinesStudent’s NameUniversity

Occupational health and safety strategies can be identified as one of the primary objectives to be maintained at the human resources management level. In order to define workplace safety, it would be the responsibility of the management to deploy effective strategic safety program so that the employees attached to the organization can work safely. Primarily, the safety programs have been developed to deal with unsafe employee actions and unsafe working condition. In the case of designing a proper strategic safety program, the organization must make it sure that the safety planning must fulfill all the requirement of overall employee ...

Executive Summary

Nearly all workplace accidents are caused by human error. Some of the most disastrous workplace accidents in recorded history, such as Chernobyl disaster, the Piper Alpha, and Texas City Refinery Plant explosion were all attributed to human error. Every worker is prone to error regardless of the level of training, experience, and knowledge. Errors can be caused by slips and lapses of judgment, violation of existing procedures, and inadvertent mistakes. Also, errors can be caused by an unfavorable work environment and conditions that places undue stress on the worker. Measures can be taken to reduce the probability of human ...

Triangle Factory Fire was the most disastrous accident at workplace in the history of New York City. A deadly fire broke out on 25th March, 1911, in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that is located in New York's Greenwich Village. 146 people were dead by the time the fire consumed itself out, 146 people were dead (The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire 2011). The main reasons given were that the main door to the stairwell was locked, those who tried to escape by jumping off the building were not saved because fire nets failed to catch them. Many did not know ...

Following the guidelines of the course ID guidelinesStudent’s NameUniversity

1. What questions should her SPHR friend ask Betty Smith? In the beginning, the SPHR friend will ask Betty to calm down and ask her the problems that are faced by the organization. The SPHR friend will ask Betty to explain the situations that are described by the CEO. The SPHR friend will then ask Betty about her knowledge of the Second Amendment Law and what she knows about workplace violence. It is important for an HR executive to understand the problems faced by the organization regards to its workplace and understand the concerned issues of workplace violence. Along ...

Introduction

Business ethics is a set of principles or values that regulate the actions and conduct of employees in an organization (Marcoux, 2008). These principles apply to all aspects of a business and determine the interaction of profit-making and non-profit issues. This paper contains an ethics program that Company X will include in the new workers handbook.

Elements of acceptable behavior in code of ethics

The new employees should practice respect and communication, honesty, time management and adhere to the set dress code (Duggan, 2016). These practices will ensure that the company achieves its goals and mission.

Respect and Communication

A good communication structure exists where employees respect each other as ...

‘Health and Safety legislation imposes an unnecessary financial burden on business’

Employment sectors in the United Kingdom have been subjected to numerous rules in recent times that seek to decrease the occurrence of grievous injuries in the work environment. The implementation of proper health and safety regulations has been made mandatory in order to secure the wellbeing and safety of the workers. Sensible rules that ensure workplace safety are always welcomed by the employers. But the present safety and health legislation has begun to ...

Introduction

Occupational hazards can affect all workers not withstanding gender, age or type of occupation. It is one of the major problems faced by workers and their employers especially those who are engaged in occupation that require the operation of machineries or exposure to hazardous environments. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), 270 million workers every year suffer from occupational injuries while 160 million have contacted work-related diseases. It is only logical to think that work related accidents happen due to factors such as poor working conditions, insufficient training, lack of protective gears and of course, machine and human ...

Introduction

Sharon Terry (2012) explained that a person’s Family health history can be gathered from a number of resources. These include observing choices one makes on a daily basis; legends and stories shared by older family members as well as the culture of one’s community. Precisely she advocates that everyone should endeavor to collect data pertaining to their family history because it can prolong as well as save lives (Terry, 2012).

In this module I will outline the family history of my co-worker, Sandra. Specific features that would be addressed pertain towards medical, social and common life expectancy indicators referencing the ...

The Ham Commission

The Royal Commission was established in the year 1974 as a response to the strike staged by the Uranium miners in Elliot Lake. Owing to the increasing alarm regarding the prevalence of lung cancer and silicosis, the miners decided to express their heightened concern regarding the issue involving their health and safety conditions relative to their employment. The government appointed Dr. James M. Ham as the chairman of the commission, hence the commission was widely known as the Ham Commission. The committee was tasked to investigate the safety and health conditions in mines. In the year 1976, the Ham Commission ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of bullying in the workplace. It was established that Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Healthy Workplace Bill regulate interpersonal relationship and prohibit bullying in the workplace. The types of bullies and their activities are the focal points of the research paper. Since workplace assault poses a tremendous threat to physical and psychological well-being of victims, mental, emotional and physical consequences of bullying were given a particular focus in the concluding part of the project. Keywords: bullying, workplace, victim, physical, mental, abuse It so happens that people are split into two ...

The world’s population is tremendously growing especially in the developing countries and, as a result, such countries experience enormous problems due to the expanding needs of the people. The growth of population has affected the government’s ability to predict and generate policies that would serve the various needs of its population. Numerous problems arise as the government budgeted expenditure is stretched, and the level of poverty continues to increase. In fact, majority of persons in the developed countries live under deplorable conditions as a result of poverty, and this increases the vulnerability to diseases and other infections (Bader 212). ...

Introduction

A safety and health management system is very important in the workplace. It is the responsibility of an employer to ensure that his employees have a safe working environment. Many companies and organizations have a safety management system in place. There are different levels of safety systems out there. These are influenced by the safety culture of the organization. In many small organizations, the safety culture is usually limited. Such companies focus on production and there is no safety staff. The company may be lucky not to have suffered injuries but many such organizations score poorly. On the extreme end of ...

<<Please complete ALL the spaces marked with blue and answer ALL the questions on this assignment. Save your work regularly on your own PC (or flash drive) and upload the file once it has been completed>> - Consider either your present or previous workplace. Name two (2) safety procedures that are in place. How do you ensure you follow these procedures or instructions? - In my work place we have, following safety procures that are practised. One of them is completing of documentation process. It helps in keeping records of past and present accidents ...

Introduction

In the current business world, many companies hire experts from the international scene to lead their local teams. Undertaking work in a foreign country demonstrates mobility, flexibility and cultural acumen, and these are the qualities employers are constantly in search for. Working away from the national country can be risky and daunting and it needs careful consideration. Accountants, auditors and finance experts make international moves all over and gain an advantageous edge towards employment opportunity. This paper provides an empirical discussion on the factors that might influence considering a move to Oracle Corporations in Singapore. The paper evaluates the business environment, ...

Introduction

The construction industry is termed as high hazard industry and comprises a lot of activities which involves alteration, repairs, construction. Examples of activities in this important industry include residential construction, bridge erection, roadway paving, demolitions, excavations and so forth ("Construction Industry”).The construction industry is one of the fatal four industries; others include transportation & warehousing, agriculture, fishing, forestry & hunting and mining/quarrying/oil & gas exploration. However, studies show that the construction industry has the highest incidence of work fatalities. (“McGraw-Hill Construction.” 2013). However, safety is an investment that provides real benefits especially to a high-risk industry like construction industry. Implementing safety not ...

Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike. An effective ethics program helps an organization establish a culture that has concern for their employees well being (Mullan 2010). The organization will consider employees as an important part of their business and strive to ensure that they are working in safe conditions. In the case of Nike a more effective ethics program would have ensured that they do not hire children to work for them in their factories. It is not ethical to hire children, Nike would have ...

Introduction

Occupational health safety is a concept that cannot escape the attention of any workplace safety and the welfare of the employee in the work environment. There are several causes and things that can be attributed to be the main contributors of incident causation at the workstations of human beings. Empirical data and research studies have shown and established some of the major lines of actions of actions and thought that might lead to the happening of accidents in workplaces. In principle, there are models and/or perspectives which inform this line of thought and reasoning. There are two major models which ...

Abstract

Improving labor inspection services and OHS concerns in UAE and for small business is a growing concern. The paper looks into the growth of small business in Qatar and the need for strong OHS laws for workers and owners. There is a need to educate business about the worker’s rights and responsibilities as well as the responsibilities of the employers. The paper also looks into the demographics of the employee in UAE and the challenges faced by the state for occupational health and safety improvement in Qatar. The rate of industrialization has significantly increased over the past decades in Qatar and ...

Introduction

Safety has always been a major concern within the labor department. In the case of employee and employer labor issues have gone on throughout history. After the abolishment of slavery, and the passing of the Equal Rights and Discrimination legislations, issues involved within the workplace have dealt with safety and health. In 1893 Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act that became the first federal statutes that required safety equipment, although applied only to the railroad equipment, within the workplace. Soon later in 1910 Congress passed the federal Bureau of Mines after there were highly publicized deadly mine explosions and collapses. ...

INTRODUCTION

The aim of this study is to identify the ethical issues in the workplace. In order to do so, the study has taken all the factors associated with ethics within an organization into consideration. This signifies that the study tends to inform its readers regarding the importance and benefits of the workplace ethics along with the consequences of inappropriate workplace ethical standards. Personnel being the greatest strength in corporate world are in constant need of safe and well-protected working environment. As the organizations’ reliance on personnel is increasing day by day, the study has taken the concentration of workplace/personnel ...

Ethics constitutes the heart of organizations’ human resource management function (MacDonald, 2013). Human resource managers strive to address ethical issues in order to enhance smooth flow of organizational operations. Ethics refers to the branch of moral philosophy that deals with separating the right from the wrong to avoid organizational misunderstandings. Human resource management concentrates on business ethics to examine ethical principles and moral problems that arise in business environments (Simpson, 2013). Managers apply ethics to all aspects of the business operation to control the conduct of organizational publics and lead the business towards the right direction. Business ethics comprises ...

Abstract

Growth is supplemented by development, and development in turn, is supplemented by external factors. Today, most corporations use external sources to enhance their productivity and growth. At times it could be at the expense of their workforce, or at times it could be at the expense of the environment in which they work, or as in most cases, it could be because of the combination of both. This has a direct impact on the ecosystem which has by then become highly volatile due to continuous ‘exploitation’ of it. While the imbalance of the ecosystem has brought about climatic changes, the ...

Reflective Nursing

Reflection in the Nursing Process Role of Reflection In the nursing process, reflection is necessary for improving the standards of practice. For reflective practice, specific areas are identified by the Johns model (Somerville & Keeling, 2004, p. 42). These include the description of an experience that is important to the learner, identification of personal issues that emerge from the experience, focus on personal goals, having empathy for others involved in the experience, and becoming aware of personal beliefs and values. Reflection then goes through the phase of linking the experience with earlier experiences, creating alternatives for future ...

Workplace Safety

This paper discusses the behavior-based approach in promoting workplace safety. It discusses how this approach largely involves the employees and how an organization’s management team must provide a supportive environment in order to facilitate the implementation of the various components that the approach entails. The behaviorism theory is also discussed as the basis for this approach where it is proposed that people behave in response to antecedents and that their behaviors are either repeated or avoided based on the consequences. Moreover, this paper discusses some of the advantages to using this approach as supported by empirical evidence that is ...

The level of concern an organization gives to its Occupational Health and Safety matters determines its productivity rates. Internal strengths and weaknesses help in bridging the gap that exists between the current status of the organization and its future. The strengths within the organization is determined by its employees, the venue, skills and expertise, the events that take place within the organization and the manner in which it cares for its staff including training and development (Robinson, 2009). The weaknesses within are determined by lack of adequate funds for expansion, low manpower, poorly laid down structures of governance and ...