...illnesses claims for certain locations in the state of Ohio. This employer has been made aware of OSHA requirements for its industry and has been cited many times for similar infractions. OSHA regulators have imposed stiff penalty fines that have cost Lowe’s Companies Inc. thousands of dollars. The record-keeping violations at the southwest Ohio stores were willful and intentional because the company had failed to correct the problems after OSHA found similar violations at the stores in the southern part of Ohio (Lewis, 2011). | Problem Statement | There are record-keeping violations for failure to report employee injuries and illnesses within Lowe’s Companies, Inc. located 24 southern and southwest Ohio stores. Since 2008 to 2009 the Federal agency has issued citations with fines totaling $110,000. This is a problem because Lowe’s continually fail to document and report employee injuries and illnesses, and the number of repeated violations by OSHA standards and regulations continue to increase and costing Lowe’s money in penalty fees (Nolan, 2010). There were an estimated 13 alleged safety violations and 10 of them were repeated (Sheppard, 2011). | Purpose of the Practical Research Study | According to OSHA records the cost to Lowe’s for failure to maintain adequate records of their employees will cost Lowe’s $10,000 per citation or violation. The real problem is not the impact of the penalty fees and violation costs to Lowe’s but the failure to...
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... 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 the 1970’s was a major stepping...
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...USA. In 1970, the OSH act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. At the time, there was an estimated 14,000 worker deaths a year from job related accidents. As many as 2.5 million workers would become disabled that year and cases of occupational diseases totaled 300,000 (Phillips). It was evident that something had to be done about these grim statistics. To address worker deaths, disease and disabilities, the United States Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act), which led to the formation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Act covers all employers and employees in the United States and its territories. There are exceptions for self-employed people, farms that have only family members working, and situations where there is regulation in place by other federal agencies and fall under other federal statutes. There are also OSHA regulations that provide individual states with the capability of developing state safety and health standards. Peg Seminario, the AFL-CIO Director of Safety, singled out OSHA’s Asbestos, Lead and Benzene standards as one of the biggest contributions from the agency over...
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...Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements Paper HCS – 341 Human Resources in Healthcare Instructor John Hulsebus, MBA, SPHR We define compassion as an empathetic emotional response to another person’s pain or suffering that moves people to act in a way that will either ease the person’s condition or make it more bearable (Lilius, 2003). The legal, safety, and regulatory impact on the human resource department greatly vary by which type of business and which type of employees. The rights of both employer and employee are covered by several different entities such as the National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. These have been set in place by the United States so as to protect both employer and employee from unfair acts on either’s part. In the few following paragraphs the effect of legal, safety, and regulatory requirements on the human resource process, an insight into the statement “Common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigation”, and a brief look at the impact of the Department of Labor, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The American’s Disability Act of 1990 on the human resource processes. The individuals within the human resource department must be well versed in all the laws and regulations as set by the United States as they are expected to abide by these laws and rules. Once the potential employee has signed an employment contract...
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...corporate policy that specifies how training, performance management and reward systems might integrate career-planning considerations. What steps can a company take to align its compensation system with its general business strategy? Today's compensation approaches, like the rest of the business world, are changing rapidly. As a result, the bridge that connects compensation strategy to the overall business strategy may have been weakened by the frequent shifts that characterize business today. The pace of change in both business strategy and compensation design are leading many companies to consider and implement changes to one side of the bridge without making changes to align it with the other side of the bridge. As a result, the bridge becomes weaker and is more likely to undermine the overall success of the business. This process encompasses the following key steps such as articulating the company's long and short-term business strategies and making sure they are aligned with current compensation approaches; choosing the compensation approach that will best reward and reinforce the company's articulated strategic goals; and periodically evaluating the compensation approach against the business strategy to see if goals have been met and make necessary adjustments. To align compensation with the business strategy, a company must first be able to articulate what that business strategy is. While identifying and articulating the business strategy seems self evident, many...
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...ensure that their construction site and employees follow the strict OSHA guidelines OSHA. Due to the always changing environment of a construction site it has become more difficult to follow these guidelines than if it was a fixed manufacturing plant. A fixed manufacturing plant will have permanent guardrails, permanent stairways, and permanent ladders with safety devices such as cages. While a construction site does not have the luxury of having anything permanent. Construction sites will have temporary ladders, temporary guardrails or have no guiderails at all (Asfahl & Rieske, 2010). With the limitation of fall protection on a construction site, the employer must still mitigate the fall risk. Employees working on scaffolding are exposed to great heights, and will require fall protection on a construction sites. OSHA has a set of specified standards that directly pertain to construction fall safety. These standards require that all temporary guardrails have the ability to with stand aside load of 200lbs (Asfahl & Rieske, 2010). This is important due to the false sense of security the guardrails presents, and if not constructed to OSHA standards it may result in a tragic fall. The lanyard system is secured to a solid structure like a wall and then attaches to a workers body harness. This system is one of the most effective ways to mitigate the risk of an accidental fall. The lanyard system must also follow OSHA standards. The lanyard rope must have a minimum breaking strength...
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...Estate Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia 1 Email: zafirah.hjabmuin@gmail.com 2 Email: maimunahsapri@utm.my Abstract In Malaysia, ergonomics has been introduced on December 1, 1992 through the establishment of ergonomics division in the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); while its provision has been stated under Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994. Although ergonomics has been carrying out by the government almost centuries ago, but it is not widely implemented and practiced in Malaysia. Besides, occupational disease consists of human organs tends to happens mainly due to lack of ergonomics awareness among the people at the workplace. Ergonomics awareness is the first step to implement ergonomics effectively. Without ergonomics awareness, effort to endorse ergonomics practice can be tough and lead to injuries and illness; and directly affects the workers’ productivity, performance and cost. Therefore, this study was attempted to identify the level of organization awareness on the ergonomics provision under OSHA 1994 and to evaluate the level of organization awareness on the importance of ergonomics to health and safety at the workplace in University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). A quantitative and survey research design was used. 230 questionnaires was developed and distributed to obtain the data from the respondents at selected administrative office, which they are divided into two groups; management and support staff...
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...Employee Safety Joshua Ogles Mount Olive College Abstract Operational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is very important to employee safety and the safety of the companies involved. This paper talks about a few examples of how OSHA operates and how they interact with employees and the companies that they work for. There are many standards of OSHA that can be confusing or be misinterpreted and are a big impact on everyone involved. Every employee should be proactive and participate in the safety procedures and prevention of injuries and loss of life. What is employee safety? Employee safety Employee safety is described in many ways by different companies, organizations and of course, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). Everyone has rights and none of them are to be overlooked. Every employee should be treated equally among all types of inspections. The OSHA inspections are for the safety of the employees and the companies they work for on a daily basis. Employee rights under OSHA. The main prevision of OSHA states that each employer has a general duty to furnish each employee a place of employment free from recognized hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm. OSHA is set in place to protect employees, not to hurt them or get them in trouble with their employer. Some people view OSHA as a trap or a bad thing but it is only to protect the rights and safety of the employees of the company. Employees have the right to: ...
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...OCCUOPOTIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA) PRACTICES AND OSHA PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY GHANIM Mohmed Adeil University Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering, Malaysia Mohamedadil88@yahoo.com Keywords: OSHAP; OSHAPM; Safety Performances; Financial Performances; Malaysian Automotive Industry. Summary This paper review the issues of the occupational safety and health administration practices (OSHAP) and occupational safety and health administration performances (OSHAPM) that affect the practices in Malaysian Automotive Industry. In addition, this paper discusses the OSHAP which are safety, culture, employee involvement, employee attitude, leadership style, safety and health training and last the effective communication. Not only that but to examine its impact on OSHAPM which are safety and financial performance in the automotive industry. However, this paper explores prior literatures and findings that were found by other researchers in the Malaysian automotive industry regarding these issues. Introduction Actually, the history of automotive industry in Malaysia has started at the early age of the second half of the 20th century. Several factors had played a main role in the reason behind this industry rise or in fact birth. The main reason was to strengthen this industry and decrease dependency on the agriculture sector. Not to say that agriculture is not profitable or important, but this industry will pull up the whole economic together...
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...the RFP. Copies of any documents not included with this proposal as an Attachment, Appendix or Exhibit will be provided immediately upon request. 6.1 Required Safety Forms and Data and Experience Modification Rate (EMR): XXXXX’ and its significant subcontractors’ Safety Forms and Data are included in this section as required by the RFP. 6.1.1 XXXXX Experience Modification Rate (EMR) (Insert Form Here) 6.1.2 OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Reports (Insert Form Here) 6.1.3 OSHA Total Recordable Cases Incidence Rate (TCIR) (Insert Form Here) 6.1.4 Days Away from Work, Job Transfer, or Restriction (DART) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.1.5 Data and Trends Narrative (Need whatever explanation SME’s are going to use to explain away our “High Risk” to “Extremely High Risk” rating in these categories) 6.2 Significant Subcontractors’ Experience Modification Rate (EMR) (Insert Form Here) 6.2.1 Significant Subcontractors’ OSHA Form 300A (Insert Form Here) 6.2.3 Significant Subcontractors’ OSHA (TCIR) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.2.4 Significant Subcontractors’ (DART) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.2.5 Significant Subcontractors’ Data and Trends Narrative (Insert Form Here) 6.3 Safety Program and Procedures XXXXX approach to Safety on all worksites includes adherence to contract-specific safety requirements. For Kings Bay, this includes but is not limited to the following documents: * OPNAVINST...
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...on-the-job illnesses and safety. You may use components of existing plans from your research; however, your plan must be customized and specific to your selected business. Provide any supplemental materials and guidelines that might be used as part of the plan. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Health and Safety Practices Plan Part Three HRM/554 University of Phoenix April 15, 2012 Dr. Brian Frank Health and Safety Practices Plan Part Three There are more than 21 million workers in the auto manufacturing industry, and the perception of this industry is a high risk of occupation injury and illnesses. However, Together, with members of the manufacturing industry and the National Safety Council (NSC), OSHA works to provide employers and airline industry workers with information and assistance to help create a healthy and safe working environment. Employees at General Motors engage in a number of activities that expose them to on the job related injury and illnesses such as cuts or lacerations, sprains, and strains. These types of...
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...Name:__________________________ 1. Herbert Hoover assumes that engineers are accountable for whether the products they make actually work according to expectations. But suppose, as is typical, that an engineer works on only a small part of a building or computer. Is Hoover mistaken in saying that the engineer shares responsibility for the project in its entirety? Does what he says apply only to the project engineer responsible for overseeing the entire project? Distinguish the applicable senses of ‘responsibility.’ CBS News had an article online regarding the court case involving the Army Corps of Engineers and their accountability with the levee failure during Hurricane Katrina. CBS News reports that the ruling could impact northern Texas. Congress made the decision that if something happened, the Army Corps of Engineers would not be held accountable. So when something happens, who is responsible? The city that the levee protects? The Federal Government is one thing, but what about all of the other engineering companies large, small, and everywhere in between? Obviously, one company can’t ever say “We cannot be held accountable if one of our products fails and injures people”. That’s wrong. So, how where would the accountability be pinned? If one of those smaller companies produced a product that ended up hurting or killing people, the entire company should be accountable. According to the Encyclopedia of Business, “businesses can be held liable for any...
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...Ergonomics Nov 29, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss ergonomics. How important proper ergonomics can be to both the employer and the employee. To talk about some of the education and training options available to companies for its employees. Some employer responsibilities and how OSHA enforces them. And finally, a look at a few organizations created to influence ergonomics. Introduction Ergonomics is basically the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities. Throughout this paper I will go over the importance of proper ergonomics, along with a certain medical disorder that can result from ergonomic hazards. Then discuss different types of ergonomic education and training, as well as the delivery options available. Look at some basic employer responsibilities as well as OSHA Enforcement. And briefly go over two organizations that influence human factors and ergonomics around the world. Importance of Proper Ergonomics The science of fitting workplace conditions and demands of the job to the capabilities of the working population is Ergonomics. Ensuring effective and successful ergonomic practices will help generate higher productivity, greater avoidance of illness and injury, and even a possible increase in job satisfaction among the workforce. The avoidance of illness and injury is extremely important in today’s workplace as many companies are dealing...
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...jobsite. For example, many mechanical contractors, depending on system design and specifications still must account for strict adherence to management policy for many jobsites. Factors considered, particularly for welding processes performed by a mechanical subcontractor alludes to several concerns. Such things as space, accessibility, ventilation, quantity and quality of welds, duration of toxic fumes and proximity of hazardous chemicals are a few. Also consideration for direct welder safety prevention equipment and long term effects are chief factors. Also in this paper I will attempt to present cost-effective innovations in on-jobsite methods and processes. But it is important to note from the article written by Alistair Mutch (1998) “The Impact of Information Technology on Traditional Occupations: The Case of Welding, welding is an example of a manual craft occupation that, whilst subject to some change, has not been as dramatically affected by information technology as some analyst suggest.” For this reason, changes in welding safety may be limited. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT INTENT ON SAFETY As described in the text, Construction Operations Manual Policy and Procedures, Safety has become a real buzz word around the construction industry today and in the future. It certain has been used correctly in many circles. Unfortunately, it can become a...
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...conclude that health is the most important thing in terms of physical, mental and social well-being to employees in order to ensure that the employees can perform well in their job. The employers should take the responsibilities to ensure protection of employees’ health and safety. The health status of the workforce in every country has an immediate and direct impact on national and world economies. Total economies losses due to occupational illnesses and injuries are enormous (WHO, 1999). Azimah and Goh Teng Huat (2014) defined occupational safety and health as a disciplines related to protecting and caring for human and facility resources in the workplace. The disciplines refer to dealing with the prevention of work related injuries and disease and the protection and promotion of the health of workers. While, The International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) generally defines occupational health and safety (OHS) as the science of anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards arising in or from the workplace that could impair the health and well-being of workers, taking into account the possible impact on the surrounding communities and the general environment (ILO, 2009). Occupation health entails the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations (ILO/WHO, 1995). The occupation or the nature of work performed by an employees are exposes him or her to health hazards associated with...
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