...National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search NIOSH logo The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the U.S. federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIOSH is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with research laboratories and offices in Cincinnati, Ohio; Morgantown, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado; Anchorage, Alaska; Spokane, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia.[1] NIOSH is a professionally diverse organization with a staff of 1,400 people representing a wide range of disciplines including epidemiology, medicine, industrial hygiene, safety, psychology, engineering, chemistry, and statistics. The director of NIOSH is John Howard. The Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed by President Richard M. Nixon, on December 29, 1970, created both NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). NIOSH was established to help ensure safe and healthful working conditions by providing research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health. NIOSH provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by gathering information, conducting scientific...
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...OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY The areas covered under this study are as follows: - Existing policies/directives for Industrial Occupational Health and Safety Management in India and abroad. - The norms/directives as being followed in India and abroad. - Existing infrastructural/institutional mechanism in the country and abroad. - The socio-techno-economic aspects related to the subject. - The compensation for the loss of life and injury as practiced in the country and abroad. - Inherent class differences (based on the earning capacity of the individual) reflected in differential compensation being offered for the same injury. - The issues related to organized and unorganized sectors. The sectors where the Industrial Occupational Health and Safety Acts do not apply. - The workman compensation acts. - The safety standards for machinery, plant and equipment etc. “Safe fail design” (Not fail-safe) aspect to minimize the industrial occupational health and safety hazards. - Role being played by infrastructure and institutional mechanisms. - Identification of factors to enhance the implementation and the impact of Industrial occupational health & safety management directives/ policies. - At management level. - At workman level. - At institutional mechanism level - The recommended action plan towards “Self-Enforcing Environment” identifying the agencies involved. Indian Legislative Measures A large number of labour legislations have been enacted for the promotion...
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...An Accident is the term given to “any unplanned event that causes injury, illness, property damage or harmful disruption of work process.” (Dan Hartshorn, 2003 ‘Solving Accident Investigation Problems’). There are two types of accident investigations; the first being an Accident report. This report is completed when the accident in question represents only a minor incident. It often answers the questions of ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘when’ the incident occurred. The other form of Accident Investigation is and Accident-Analysis report. This is completed when the accident in question is serious and also addresses the concerns of the previously four ‘W’s’ with the addition of asking ‘why’ the incident took place. During his opening speech at the National Symposium, which was hosted by the Occupational Safety and Health Authority and Agency, Minister of Labour and Small Micro Enterprise Development Errol McLeod stated that inadequate risk assessments and failure to implement safe systems of work were contributors in more than seventy percent of the accidents that involved persons employed in the Manufacturing Sector. Upon inspections carried out by the OSH Agency, the Minister also revealed that there were under-reporting of accidents, deficiencies in contractor management and non-conformance to the requirements of the OSH Act in respect of the establishing and functioning of Safety and Health Committees. According to the OSH Act 2004, Amended and Updated, it mentions in Section...
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...disease and injury while promoting and protecting the health of populations. Public health is the science and art of promoting health, prolonging life, and preventing disease as a result of organized community efforts. Public health by way of systematic effort, identify the health needs of the community and then organize ample health service for the defined population (Association of Schools of Public Health, n.d.). The interdisciplinary approach of health services, biostatistics, and epidemiology are incorporated in public health. The purpose of this paper is to describe Center of disease control and prevention (CDC) as a public health agency and how it contributes to the core functions of public health. This paper will also examine the specific ways CDC influences the health care organizations and provider and will also discuss the roles of the agency workers including specific responsibilities, competencies, and skills. CDC as an agency and its contribution to the core functions of public health. CDC is the lead federal government public health agency and a key operational element of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC manages a variety of programs intended to control and prevent specific disability risks, injury, and disease on a national level through dissemination activities, program development, research, epidemiologic surveillance, and investigation. “CDC employs more than 15,000 employees in more than 50 countries and in 168 occupational categories”...
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...[pic] FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND LANGUAGES SEMESTER SEPTEMBER 2012 OUMH 2203 ENGLISH FOR WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION MATRICULATION NO : 811029015900002 IDENTITY CARD NO. : 811029-01-5900 TELEPHONE NO. : 012-7410614 E-MAIL : cute_pirate81@yahoo.com LEARNING CENTRE : IPTHO / OUM BATU PAHAT REPORT ON THE PROBLEMS TO THE HEALTH AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVED SAFETY STANDARD OF AM CONSTRUCTION & HARDWARE SDN BHD Prepared for Hamzah bin Kahar ( Managing Director ) AM Construction & Hardware Sdn Bhd 28-30 , Jalan Pt Jalil 83000 Batu Pahat , Johor By Suhaily bt Heait ( Occupational Health Director ) AM Construction & Hardware Sdn bhd 28-30 , Jalan Pt Jalil 83000 Batu Pahat , Johor 16th October 2012 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL The Managing Director , AM Construction & Hardware Sdn Bhd , 28-30 , Jalan Pt Jalil , 83000 Batu Pahat , Johor . Dear Mr Hamzah bin Kahar , Enclosed is the report you requested in September on the problems related to the health and safety standards in AM Construction & Hardware Sdn Bhd . After the recent tour of the company , it was discovered that the operators were blatantly ignoring the safety standards of the company . The problems are stated as follow : 1. Manual handling of hand tools 2. Sharp objects and rubbish: syringes, broken glass and rusty metal 3. tripping...
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...industrial nation, ranks high in the world in terms of competitiveness and safety. The purpose of this study is to present an investigation and inquiry into Japan’s measures on Health and Safety for their workers; including their policies, implementing government agencies, and results; as compared with the measures taken in our country. It also aims to identify areas where we can gain knowledge of Japan’s measures to keep their workers safe and healthy. This study also seeks to see where Japan is and how far it is from our country in this matter, what their strengths are and where we can improve on. The significance of this study is that it tackles an issue where our country continues to lag behind industrialized nations like Japan. The continued number of work-related accidents in our country affects millions of workers who continue to be at risk due to poor working conditions. The study aims to draw recommendations that will help our government policy makers in strengthening areas that we need to improve on. Contents Health and Safety Measures for Workers in Japan i Introduction ii Study 1 Background 1 Policy and Legislation 1 Industrial Accident Prevention Organization Law (enacted 1964) 1 Industrial Safety and Health Law 1 Working Environment Measurement Law 1 Pneumoconiosis Law 2 Ordinances 2 11th Industrial Accident Prevention Plan 2 The Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (JISHA ) 3 JISHA OSHMS Standards Certification 4 Statistics...
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...“Safety, Accidents, and Investigations: Be Prepared for the Unexpected,” by Robert A. Battles. 2011. Critic by Idy Kool Columbia Southern University MOS 5101, Safety and Accident Prevention. The main focus of the author in this article was about accident prevention. In the article, the author describes how to establish and maintain an accident prevention plan, responds to accidents in the workplace, and how to handle potential external investigations. The authors intended audience is the employer and its employees. Every employer that does work in the United States is subject to the safety and health laws issued by the Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) or the equivalent state programs. (Battles 2011). This article clearly emphasizes on the need of any organization to be readily prepared in an event of an incident and future investigations. A lot is involved when analyzing potential hazards and developing an accident prevention plan that will prevent and reduce the cost of an accidents. The author explains how developing this plan can play a vital role in accident prevention and how important it is to adhere to the plan. As stated, Accident prevention plan is the core of any safety program, it will define potential safety issue in the workplace and outline how to reduce or eliminate those issues. (Battles 2011, page 1). Every organization must ensure it workplace and surrounding environment are free from anything that could potentially lead to an accident...
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...Running Head: ARTICLE REVIEW Article Review: Safety, Accidents, and Investigations: Be Prepared for the Unexpected Article Summary In this article, the author has explained the importance of health and safety programs in the companies. Through this article, people can be able to identify the potential job hazards in the organizations and development plan for its safety. Apart from this, he has also explained the methods of effectively responding to the accidents. With the help of this, different strategies for conducting the investigation of the company is also identified by the author. Answer 1: Author’s Main Point In this, the author is mainly focused towards the importance of health and safety programs in companies. He has also explained the accident development plan, which is useful in reducing the job hazards and strategically handle the external accidents investigations (Battles, 2011). Apart from this, the author’s main point is to generate the awareness among different countries and reveals the disadvantages of not having health and safety plan such as increases in health care cost, penalties, lost productivity and fines. Answer 2: Author’s Intended Audience In this paper, the author’s intended audience is organizations in different companies. It is because organizations cover a large number of people and health and safety program also improves the personal life of the employees. At the same time, the author has also generated awareness among...
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...are committed to providing a safe workplace for its employees and improving their health through better diets, work practices and lifestyles. A Health and Safety Management system is a complete process of hazard identification, risk assessment and control, employee training, record keeping, program assessment and management involvement throughout, designed to effectively manage and ensure continued employee health and safety in the workplace. Safety and health management system can be important for moral, legal, and financial reasons. All organizations have a duty of care to ensure that employees and any other person who may be affected by the companies undertaking remain safe at all times Relevance of the topic in HRM Occupational Health and Safety has become a highly specialized area with important legal responsibilities and implications. The function is not always part of the human resource management role, but is intricately related to human resource functions, and particularly to the area of risk management. The areas of employee health and wellness and employee assistance programs are newer areas of human resource management, having developed over the last few decades. Particularly in challenging modern environments where it is difficult to find skilled personnel, paying attention to retaining well-functioning employees and reducing risk becomes a strategic human resource issue. Overview This paper presents the value of Health and safety measures in an organization...
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...The aims and benefits of Occupational Health and Safety Management As known to all, there are always such-and-such potential hazards in people's work activities or work environment, which may cause property damage, be harmful to environment, affect human’s health and even cause injury or accident. People call the possibility of one or some danger causing incidents and its possible consequence as risk. The object of contemporary occupational health and safety management is the occupational safety and health risks. These hazards may be chemical, physical, biological, related to human work efficiency and others, the factors of which include personal factor, equipment factor, environmental factor and organizational and management factor. Occupational health and safety is a series of measures and the corresponding activities adloyee’s income, prevent employee from injury and create less stress from employee, thus employee may obtain more physical and psychological satisfaction. Occupational health and safety management includes accident investigation and recording, work system designing, examination of workplace, training, complete incentives, supervision and employee aids plan. What is a hazard? The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 defines a hazard as ‘anything (including work practices or procedures) that has the potential to harm the health or safety of a person’. Hazards can be grouped into five broad areas: o physical eg. noise, radiation, light...
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...Findings and Recommendations of the John Craftsman Workplace Injury Case Study Rebecca K. Decker University of Maryland University College TurnItIn Originality Score: 3% INTRODUCTION A recent workplace injury in the International Building Materials Company’s truss construction production shop has raised concerns among employees regarding shop safety and the integrity of the equipment used in daily work activities. At the request of Executive Management, an investigation of the accident was conducted to determine what is known and not know about the incident. The goal of this investigation was to ascertain the root cause of the accident and to identify the appropriate course of action by the Company going forward that will ensure future worksite accidents are prevented. This case study will provide a discussion of the case background and will analyze the facts and opinions provided by individuals directly and indirectly involved. The discussion will provide a critical analysis of the information presented as facts to determine its relevance and impact. BACKGROUND FACTS OF THE CASE John Craftsman sustained a serious hand injury using a table saw located in the truss construction production shop. He sustained this injury while using equipment owned and maintained by company and in the performance of his job. John claims he followed all the company’s safety procedures. John’s manager, David Waffler, contends that the machine was in safe working condition...
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...Strategic HR Approach The well-being of their employees is a primary concern for a company because they are the one that make the company alive. Hence, it’s vital for the company to ascertain that the needs of the employees are provided. The following circumstances are means into how the employee’s need occur and the procedures to guide the employees. Often, companies need to deviate from the norms to guide an employee. Medical Bills An employee who already stayed in the company for many years and who’s been confined in the hospital for two months had requested the company for the assistance in its medical bills. Meanwhile, the company is already adhering to the state law policies with regards to ensuring health insurance and disability. Except if the employee presents some evidence, the employee was uninjured at work causing the cancer; the company is not liable from any financial assistance from the employee. Nevertheless, the company should give some effort to help and seek means to assist the employee particularly because the employee has been with the company for almost 25 years. The company can try to implement fundraising activities, asking donations for the employee from its co-employees or give some of its funds as donations to cover the medical bills. The company’s decision to help the employee, aside from the health insurance would boost employee relations and illustrate to the employees that the company really does care for its employees. New Management and Accidents ...
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...2015 All of us individuals must be obliged to be aware why accidents do happen in construction. Generally it is because of physical hazards which includes excessive noise and vibration, inadequate lighting, exposure to radiation, slippery surfaces, etc., environmental hazards is another reason such pollution, storm, earthquakes, etc., as well as human factors, even no safety regulations and lastly poor communication within, between, and among various trades working on a job site. An accident is defined as an unintended and unplanned occurrence that results in a negative effect. Accident causation theories have been developed in an attempt to predict accidents and thus prevent their occurrence. So far there has not been an accident prevention theory that has been universally accepted. They have however served in some preventative measures in some cases. For the record, an accident is technically anything that happens by chance or misfortune. This definition provides two important points. First, accidents are unavoidable as a whole; the chance of one occurring will virtually always be present. Second, the chance of an accident occurring is a variable that can be changed. While it is impossible to prevent all accidents, it is possible to decrease their rate of occurrence. Accident causation theories are mainly categorized into seven kinds. We have the domino theory, human factors theory, accident / incident theory, epidemiological theory, systems theory, combination theory...
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...contains 150 objective items. The 150 test items will have the following weighted breakdown. Management and Leadership Principles and Methods (21% of test/32 questions) Risk Identification, Management and Control (35% of test/52 questions) EHS Operations, Programs and Applications (28% of test/42 questions) Incident Investigation and Performance Evaluation (16% of test/24 questions) Exams administered outside the United States will be in US English. Exam questions for candidates in this category will contain fewer questions that pertain only to the United States (i.e. OSHA, NIOSH, etc.) None of these practice items will be found on the actual CSHM certification examination. These practice items are only meant to be representative of the type of items found on the certification examination. Following the practice items is a quick scoring key and the rationales for the answers. Remember to select the BEST answer. Good luck! I. GENERAL AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 1. A hazard analysis can be used to evaluate a potential hazard; what other information should be considered? a. b. c. d. Injury reports Statistical data Risk assessment Fatality investigations 2. Which leadership style will have the most positive effect on subordinate satisfaction for employees who work on stressful, frustrating or dissatisfying tasks? a. b. c. d. Supportive Achievement-Oriented Participative Contingency 3. Which leadership style will help employees to strive for higher standards of performance...
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...Paper on private security against government personnel University of Phoenix The paper of private security against government personnel The various roles of the government versus, the private security personnel compare, as they are both. Trying to protect employees and keep them safe, from harm’s way within a work environment and policy and guidelines done correctly. The contrast with private security personnel and various roles, of government is that some of them do not follow their policy and make their rules and regulations that are different from the government. In this paper, it will be discussed A comparison of the legal, ethical, managerial, and economic issues of public and private agencies, An evaluation of public and private company daily also practices A discussion of the future merging of government and private security firms also the conclusion on both of them as well. It helps to understand comparison and contrasts the differing roles of government versus private security employees within this paper. Compare parts and goals of government workers versus private security The public and private agencies have the same functions doing their daily task, which include writing reports, the task that has to do with investigating, also patrol areas as well. The different roles that they do are public agencies, will...
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