...Health and Safety Who’s Who Cambridge regional college is governed by a corporation involving of 16 governors. These include two staff governors, two student governors and representatives of local businesses. These people are accountable for the finances in the college as well as management. Governors serve for a period of four years and are eligible for re-appointment. They are also recruited though public advertisement and through contacts the college has such as recorded by the corporation by the search and development committee. The governors have equal opportunities and they welcome interest from all sectors of the community and they are keen to ensure that the membership of the corporation reflects the community it serves. The staff governors are elected by members of the college staff and serve for four years whereas the student governors are elected by the students each year. The chairman is Vernice Key, the Vice Chair is Angela Rushford and the clerk governors is Emily Baldwin. If there is a serious issue then the governors turn to the chair executives. Principal/CEO The college principal holds blame for health and safety on a day to day basis. The principle has a very important role as she is basically in charge of the whole college, Principles are the high up officials who designate health and safety tasks, activities to senior members of staff and the health and safety officer. This includes co-ordinating safety checks, risk assessments, statutory inspections...
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...technique. In “The Neighborhood” community, there was an emergency, forest fires, which left the residents to experience unfortunate residual respiratory effects. The many that suffered include patients and staff in the hospital, senior center, school, and the Bley household. According to the community news in “The Neighborhood,” there have been forest fires “for over five days, while unable to contain.” The fire has been destroying the land for five days and is quite difficult to extinguish. There are many disadvantages to forest fires such as damaging the land, producing air pollution, and exacerbating respiratory distress in patients. “The smokey air conditions affect everyone but especially those with pre-existing lung problems such as chronic lung conditions.” The forest fires are creating stress on the hospital. There is an alarming increase in emergency room visits due to patients experiencing respiratory distress. The emergency department is requesting beds on the medical-surgical floor to admit patients, “but none are available, so there is pressure to get patients discharged.” It is distressing to the staff working on the medical-surgical floor because they are “kept very busy admitting new patients as soon as others are discharged.” Some nurses were even forced to work over-time to provide adequate staff coverage to meet the increasing client numbers. The problems produced from the forest fire continue in the senior center and the school. The individuals in the...
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...October 28, 2014 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has come a lengthy way to cut the death rates of firefighters in half. In 1970, they implemented a plan to help change working conditions for all Americans. OSHA was charged with the accountability of fulfilling health and safety standards, conducting inspections, issuing citations and penalties for noncompliance of regulations. OSHA created a division called National Institute Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This division, the NIOSH, conducted research on the causes and prevention of work-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths, then provide information on what new measures can be used to prevent this from occurring so often. The group was directly appointed by the president of the United States (Edwards, 2010). During my research, I discovered a book detailing the standards of OSHA. Accident Prevention and OSHA Compliance is a book that is said to contain information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. The book discusses some interventions OSHA and NIOSH have implemented. Here are just a few interventions, Occupational Health, Hazard communications, Respiratory Protection, Protective Equipment, Emergency Response Planning, Enforcing Safety, First Aid and Medical Personnel. OSHA also covered Inspections, Preventable Injuries, and the hardest one of all which is Tragic Accidents (Michaud, 1995). As we can see, OSHA, being enacted into law in...
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...Health and Safety Assignment. Health and safety can be described as the regulations and procedures intended to prevent accidents and injury in the workplace and public environment. Question 1: As the advisor to the management of the centre I would suggest using the four point method of Plan, Do, Check and Act as an effective way to implement the HSG65 to all the employees working within the company in each department. The advantages of using PDCA system is how its illustrations health and safety as an fundamental part of quality management rather than being seen as an unconnected part of it. When trying to engage employees in learning good health and safety practice it is important to express that doing so is not solely to protect the business from any legal action that may follow after an accident but also to protect themselves from potentially life threatening incidents and create a better working environment for all employees. When giving employees health and safety training and introducing practices and codes to follow it is vital to remember to begin with the basics and not assume that employees will just already be aware of certain actions they must take in the workplace, act as if all employees have no previous knowledge of health and safety practice. The use of visual tools (figure 1.0) to help employees learn the correct health and safety practices required by them can be very useful, as they can see exactly what is needed in a situation instead of just being told...
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...Homework 4 The Global Impact of Safety Jonathan Shuty, Spenser Tripp, Caitlyn Hagarty, Yuliia Kapeliushna Part 1: In the modern Western style industrial setting, the culture has shifted from blind efficiency in production to putting major emphasis on safety and welfare of workers. The Industrial Revolution has long since passed. Manufacturing facilities have had plenty of time to stabilize their processes so that changing them to consider the safety of the worker would not cause an unacceptable drop in profits. Social pressure from the working class also contributed to this shift, as unsafe working conditions were no longer a necessary reality of the industry. Unfortunately, this emphasis on safe work practices is not a worldwide standard. Countries that have more recently started to become industrialized are trying to catch up, and this puts emphasis on production above all else. As a result, this can often lead to work environments that would be utterly unacceptable in the west. A good example of this lack of concern for worker safety is the Kader Toy Factory fire in May 1993. The Kader Toy Factory, located outside Bangkok, Thailand, manufactured toys and dolls, mostly made from plastic (ILO, 2011). Before the tragedy in 1993, the company experienced multiple, usually small fires. One fire, in 1989, completely demolished the facility. It didn’t reopen until 1990. The company was still repairing a building from fire damage when the May 1993 fire took 188 workers’ lives (ILO...
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...high risk for wildfires and flooding. In 2011 Texas experienced the most devastating wildfire season the state has seen in years. The worst wildfire in the state's history "broke out in Bastrop County on Sept. 4, a hot, dry, windy Sunday afternoon. Before firefighters got it contained, the Bastrop County Complex Fire covered some 34,000 acres, claimed two lives and destroyed more than 1,600 homes" (Fountain & Nottingham, 2011, n.p.). Extreme drought conditions placed professional and volunteer firefighters on high alert; as red flag warnings posted, and threats of dangerous fire conditions continued. On Sunday, September 4, around 14:15 in the afternoon, Bastrop County dispatch received a call about a brush fire near U.S. 290 and Texas 21, in the Circle D neighborhood, sparked by what appeared to be a downed power line. By the time Bastrop County Deputy Sheriff Molly Davis responded to the call, the brush fire was out of control (Gandara, 2011, n.p.). Before fire trucks arrived, Davis began evacuating residents. Shortly after fire trucks arrived, a deep realization set in and efforts quickly turned from fighting the fire to evacuating the community. Fire fighters went door to door evacuating residents, as Davis used the intercom...
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... Employees are entitled to have superannuation contributions paid into a nominated superannuation fund by their employer. Employees have income tax deducted by their employer Employers are paid regularly (for example, weekly or fortnight or monthly) Employees are entitled to receive paid leave (for example, annual leave, personal or careers’ leave, long service leave) Legally prescribes wages and conditions Fair and consistent treatment A workplace that protects the health and safety of all employees Comply with the OHS policy. Conscientiously fulfill the duty Improve the ability of work Earnestly implement the responsibility 6. Responsibilities undertaken The scope of the duty at least requires employers to: 1) Provide and maintain a safe working environment 2) Provide and maintain plant that is safe and free from risk to health 3) Provide and maintain safe system of work 4) Provide and maintain a working environment that provides adequate facilities for the welfare of employees at work 5) Ensure the workplace under their control is safe for the employees...
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...June 18, 2007. On this day in history America lost 9 great “Fire Heroes” to a structure fire in Charleston, South Carolina. The fire started at approximately 7:00 p.m. in the locking dock area of a mattress showroom and warehouse. Charleston firefighters arrived on the scene just three minutes after the alarm, followed soon by firefighters from the St. Andrews Public Service District . From 1979 to 2002 there were over 180 fire fighter deaths from Structural collapse. In more recent times, between 1990 and Augusta 2010, 43 fire fighters deaths have been associated with structural collapses. In a scientific study conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) entitled Trends in Firefighter Fatalities Due to Structural Collapse, 1979-2002, it was found that firefighter deaths in residential buildings have more than tripled in the last decade compared to the previous decades (1994-2002: 33 deaths; 1983-1992: 9 deaths) (Brassal, Evans 2002). Are firefighters and other fire professionals missing the evidence needed to curve the potential for firefighter fatalities due to structural collapse? Structural collapses are not always the cause of death, but may have been contributing factors that lead to the cause of death. Can training, better building practices, pre-plans and changing structural building laws decrease the risk for fire fighters? Risk Analysis and concerns regarding the Sofa Super Store fire When the first arriving officer at scene arrives and performs...
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...A01 An investigation into the induction and training procedures used by a selected travel and tourism organisation. For this part of my assignment I will provide a detailed account of the induction training procedures carried out within Bromley Court Hotel. I will use both primary and secondary research to analyse how both induction and training procedures impact on the level of customer service provided. My sources includes: Bromley Court Hotel website, my visit to the hotel and interview as well as my own observations. I will also use secondary sources such as Bromley Court Hotel staff handbook, hand-outs, leaflets as well as business travel and tourism textbooks. Bromley court hotel is part of the Best Western group of hotels. It is located in South-east London, Bromley. The hotel opened in 1931 by the current owners, the Frenkel family. Bromley court hotel is owned by Richard Antony freckle who is the present company director, the family have owned the business since 1931. The business through has changed over the years. In 1801 Charles Long purchased the deeds, he rebuilt the property in 1969 and a major extension was added. From then on the hotel has been refurbished continually. It is currently a 3 star hotel but hopes to achieve 4 stars in the future. Bromley Court Hotels mission statement is to provide good, professional service to all customers with their highest standard at all times, another objective is to treat employees fairly and with respect. They aim to...
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...Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911? The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is one of the deadliest, horrific workplace accidents in the history of New York City. At the end of the half of terror, 146 people were dead. According to the documentary the fire which started on the eighth floor spread to the 9th floor where the Triangle Shirtwaist Workers were getting ready to leave for the day. The workers have no Idea there was a fire raging through the building until it was too late for most of them to evacuate the building. The owners, on the other hand, made it out the building alive through the rooftop. The triangle fire’s tragedy was compounded by the hazardous working environment in the factory and consequently lack of emergency preparedness. According to Berger (2011), Workers unraveled a hose from a stairwell fixture, but no water came out. The building had no sprinklers, nor had the factory ever held fire drills. More disheartening is that the doors in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory only opened inward, therefore when the...
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...Purpose The purpose of the Health and Medical section is to provide information which identifies the methods used in mobilizing and managing health and medical services in response to emergencies at Glover International Airport. These areas include treatment, transport and evocation of the injured, removal of deceased, disease control and prevention of contamination during emergencies. • Situation and Assumptions Glover International Airport provides basic emergency medical care response for the Airport and will request assistance from the city of Seattle and City or Tukwila Fire Departments as necessary. The Airport provides emergency medical services through ARFF personnel and on/off-site mutual aid emergency medical technicians. If mutual aid is not available, the use of triage will be utilized to ensure an efficient use of existing resources. The Airport strives to ensure its response is adequate to protect life and health for the first 12 to 24 hours without outside assistance. Large-scale incident will require outside agency support. The surrounding communities have a large contingent of Health and Medical resources to bring to bear. Many medical professionals will volunteer their services and Glover International Airport must be prepared to ensure their legitimacy. It should be noted that these resource might they be adversely affected by the emergency. All requests for additional health and medical support will be made though the on-site Law Enforcement and will...
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...response is the ability of the public health and health care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities. Preparedness involves a continuous process of planning and implementation that relies on measuring performance and taking corrective action. There are many different public agencies, from local to national, that are dedicated and devoted to this. The Neighborhood is a community that is nestled near Neighborhood River and along the Neighborhood Forest, with a population of 64,200. They are in the presence of a wildfire that is raging just west of the town border. The fire has been burning out of control for five days with the local fire departments battling to contain it. Initially, it was believed to be easily containable but with the early advent of the windy season, the fire continues to burn out of control. Community officials urge citizens that they are not in any immediate danger for evacuation but will issue alerts if they feel the fires may shift course towards the community. Public health officials are urging residents, especially those with chronic heart and lung disease, to remain inside unless absolutely necessary, due to the smoke, haze, and irritants. The local hospital is seeing an influx of patients to the emergency department as well as the units being filled with...
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...Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION Community Health and PopulationFocused Nursing (C228) June 29, 2016 1 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION A. Identification of Community 2 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION The community that I will be presenting a health assessment status of for this task is Collierville, TN. Collierville is a small active suburban community located in Shelby County, TN near the Memphis Metropolitan area. It is approximately 25 square miles large, located 89.39W longitude and 35.2N latitude with an elevation of 387ft (WorldAtlas.com, 2016). B. Assessment of Needs and Risks I will assess the health needs and risks of Collierville, TN by discussing various epidemiological and demographic data and providing some vital statistics that I found during my research. I will also provide a description of my visual assessment of the community and my own personal knowledge of this community. My experiences with the community of Collierville, TN include living here as a resident for the past 13 years and working as an EMT with EMS prior to living here. During my research, I was able to find the following data to describe the Population and Economic Status Assessment for Collierville, TN. The population is approximately 48,655 for the year 2014 census according to CityData...
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...overseeing all health and safety risks, which includes fire. We must take every measure to prevent such an event occurring and provide a fire emergency plan detailing evacuation procedures. Management is required to identify this type of hazard, assess the risk, perform risk control procedures to eliminate or reduce the risk, then review control procedures. Consult and update team members with this information. They also have a primary duty of care to ensure the health and safety of workers and associates. • Identify any publication, standards, and codes of practice that will assist you. Detailed information can be found in the WHS Act 2011 in sections 17 and 19. Section 17 A duty imposed on a person to ensure health and...
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...experiencing a forest fire that has lasted for the past five days while destroying huge acres of land and is nearing its town. The efforts to fight the fire are characterized by the battles of firefighters to control the forest fire, health care workers trying to keep patients breathing, and city officials asking citizens to stay indoors. The forest fire in Neighborhood Community is an example of the need for a community to effectively to prepare and respond to emergencies. Summary of the Events As a community located near a forest and along the river bank, Neighborhood community is hugely affected by the dangerous forest fire destroying several acres of land. The smoky condition of the air from the forest fire is affecting residents with pre-existing lung problems suffering the most. As health care professionals are doing all they can to help keep patients breathing, the firefighters are fighting to gain control of the forest fire. The residents are urged to stay indoors by the city officials unless it is associated with the winds blowing the smoke toward the town. Moreover, these officials have also notified the residents that they will inform them of a new plan if the fire advances toward the town. Some of the major areas that are affected by this incident in the community include: The Hospital The local hospital in Neighborhood community is filled with patients who are affected by the smoke’s fire. As a result, the hospital’s emergency department is in dire need of...
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