OSHA and EPA are the only federal agencies protecting the safety and health of the U.S. public. While, OSHA concentrates on issues of workplace safety, EPA on the other hand, has a wider scope. The two have different legal authority: EPA applies to o Continue Reading...
Workplace Safety Employee health and safety management Most U.S. firms are offering disease management and health promotion programs to employees to address the increasing health care costs through improving employee lifestyle and overall health. N Continue Reading...
Safety Managers Program There was the new act of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, called OSHA in short introduced in 1970. This new act gave rise to a lot of growth in the development of Safety officers. At the same time it also led to Continue Reading...
Safety and Heath in it Environments Applied Business Research: The need for Safety and Health Standards in Hazardous Working Environments in the Information Technology Businesses including IT firms are flooded with IT tools like microcomputers, pho Continue Reading...
Safety Injury Prevention in the Home Injury Prevention Workplace Motor Vehicles and Natural Disasters Safety is concerned with preventing or minimizing injuries and fatalities that result from a variety of circumstances. Injury prevention is a pr Continue Reading...
Drug Testing in the Workplace Most employers in the United States are not required to do drug testing on either current or potential employees, although the majority have the right to do so (United States Department of Labor, 2010). Drug testing is Continue Reading...
Sexual Harassment Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Legal and Psychological Overview Workplace Sexual Harassment, as delineated in the text by Anne C. Levy, & Michele A. Paludi (2001) is a complex issue, marrying human psychology and human sexual Continue Reading...
Workplace Violence Violence in the workplace is an everyday event that affects employees throughout the nation. It must be addressed, clearly defined, and possible solutions presented that will eventually identify the potential aggressor and victim. Continue Reading...
Workplace violence (Bullying) Workplace violence can be defined as an action that manifests itself in threatening behavior, physical assault, aggression or any other violent form that may be displayed at work setting and may be directed towards cowo Continue Reading...
Some of these problems can cause dissatisfaction among coworkers. Because substance abuse is a problem affecting all persons regardless of gender, class, age, or race, employees and supervisors must learn how to recognize some of the signs of possib Continue Reading...
Workplace violence is a major threat to American companies, and costs billions of dollars each year is lost wages, health care, and legal fees. In light of current trends towards company downsizing and higher levels of job stress, these acts of viole Continue Reading...
The person no longer finds it possible to perform their job or manage their personal life. Withdrawal from others, anger, grief and rage are some of the emotions felt. There are often suicidal or homicidal thoughts and over-reaction to minor events, Continue Reading...
Workplace Poster for a Roland Retail Company Workplace Poster for a Sears Holdings Corporation Risk of staff theft poster The following is a typical illustration of the Sears Holdings Corporation poster that warns against theft and vandalism of th Continue Reading...
Men and women are valued for their role as workers -- workers not merely at a given company -- but workers who form part of a larger industrial/technological organism that is the national, and increasingly, the global economy. Rights of privacy give Continue Reading...
Workplace Monitoring As technology advances, employers worldwide are faced with the problem of employee's ill usage of the communication media. In order to reduce these risks, employers are now turning towards technology monitoring, which would enab Continue Reading...
They dropped back slightly to 1.5 million in 2002" (Mason-Dreffen 2003). Those increases occurred despite the fact that age discrimination can be difficult to prove, although the Supreme Court had eased the plaintiff's burden of proof (Ormsbee 2002) Continue Reading...
American Meat Packing Corp., 362F.3d 418 (7th Cir. 2004). On November 15, 2001, 350 workers at the American Meat Packing Corporation (AMPC) showed up for work and were told they had been terminated. Because they were not notified 60 days prior to te Continue Reading...
American With Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990 as Public Law 101-336. However, the law didn't become effective until January 26, 1992. The ADA is federal legislation that opened up servi Continue Reading...
Deontologically, people might take a stand for personal physical privacy as an innate moral good; yet, precisely what each deontologist might define privacy to be may vary. Consequently, some deontologists might think that workplace surveillance and Continue Reading...
American Presidency How Presidents can influence the policymaking process to suit their needs constitution has created the executive branch and the executive power vested in the hands of the president. In fact, the president cannot act in isolation Continue Reading...
The idea that work is not to be supposed to enjoy has unfortunately become engrained in American society and in the cultures of many organizations and this has contributed directly to the rise of stress related illnesses and disorders (Gardiner 2010 Continue Reading...
Workplace violence can be prevented by creating a workplace environment and organizational culture that prevents the problem, protects employees, and pursues strategies for change. The presence of official policies or codes of ethics in the workplace Continue Reading...
American business has grown over the past several decades, so have the number of laws, rules, and regulations governing the operation of such business. These laws and regulations are generally of types: 1) to promote market competition and to keep t Continue Reading...
Occupational Health and Safety in Catering Industry in Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health The incidence rate of workplace accidents in the catering industry in Hong Kong is higher than that of other sectors, even those associated with inheren Continue Reading...
Adoption of this practice will ensure that accidental energization of power lines from back feed electrical energy from generator. Hence this will help in safeguarding utility line workers from possible electrocution. The generators need to be turn Continue Reading...
It is interesting to note that most of the workers in the Chicago stockyards in 1906 were immigrants, just as today, and they had their rights trampled in much the same way many of the plants are accused of violating rights even today. Thus, the saf Continue Reading...
privacy in the workplace encourages contempt. Legitimate Limits Economic reasons for supervision. Reasons of inter-employee, and employee-customer safety. Reasons of performance. Definition of excessive supervision/invasion of privacy. Example Continue Reading...
The Association of Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers (AISEE) pushed for a "national conference on safety" and as a result the Cooperative Safety Congress (CSC) was held (in 1912) and out of that meeting the National Council of Industrial Safety (N Continue Reading...
Political Science OSHA The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHAct) of 1970 was passed by Congress in order to make sure that every working person in the country had safe and healthful working circumstances and to preserve human resources. Under Continue Reading...
Occ Safety Oil Offshore and Gas Installations: Safety Culture The offshore oil and gas installation industry is one of the most notoriously hazardous due to its extreme and remote conditions. Both acute and chronic health and safety issues plague o Continue Reading...
7. Fenn, P., & Ashby, S., 2004. Workplace risk, establishment size, and union density. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 42, 461 -- 480. 8. Griffin, M.A., & Neal, A., 2000. Perceptions of safety at work: A framework for linking safe Continue Reading...
Occupational Health and Safety As a result of the fact that there is by no means a real sense of equality when it comes to the two genders and discrimination in the American workplace today, it's important to acknowledge that we still have a lot of Continue Reading...
1) Background of OSHA and Objectives The US Department of Labor spearheaded the establishment of Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) in 1970 with the desire of creating as a safe workplace for American laborers. Having being ratified in 1971 Continue Reading...
Q1. The Gauley Bridge disaster took place in the 1920s, before appropriate health and safety requirements were imposed upon industries to protect workers. Workers were often forced to tolerate such conditions because they had no other options by whic Continue Reading...
Workplace Demands Influences Patient Safety PICOT Question PICOT Question: How can the implementation of accurate safety standards reduce errors that hamper patients' safety in healthcare facilities in the short and long run? P -- Patients in hea Continue Reading...
Thus, employees are discouraged from reporting abuses and safety issues because of fear of retaliation. As noted, if they are illegal immigrants, they fear deportation or reporting to INS, and they fear losing their jobs, and so, they do not report Continue Reading...
Workers who are assaulted can experience profound and long-lasting psychological trauma. If violence persists, they may seek to leave the profession, or areas of the profession where there is an especially acute need for care, such as ER work. The " Continue Reading...
The different types of harm that could happen are when the author is discussing specific effects that this will have on unborn baby. These include: unhealthy genetic material being passed to the embryo, this will have an impact on the development of Continue Reading...
