Managing Business Activities Health and Safety in the Workplace Introduction Health and safety at work are important for several reasons. a) Employees should be protected from pain and suffering. (Obvious - we hope!) b) An employer has legal obligations for the health and safety of employees. c) Accidents and illness cost the employer money. d) The company's image in the market-place (to which it sells goods and services, and from which it recruits labour and buys in other resources)
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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
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to assure that the injured worker gets all material compensation necessary, or, instead, to oppose false insurance claims. Thus, inadequate safety program is reflected in the lack of workers training, necessary inspections of the equipment and so on. Inadequate safety program standards are evident when workers do not understand the peculiarity of the safety program and how to apply it, that is why insufficient compliance to standards occurs. Before a loss occurs (Injury, illness, damage, loss in
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Question 1 1. Penalty: - Company should regular inspect the workers uniform and if the someone is not in full safety uniform he/she should be charged fine or penalty and send back to home. 2. Proper training: - proper guidance should be given to every worker regarding proper protection equipment (how to wear, which equipment prevent which part of body). 3. Identifying hazards: - employer should inspect the workplace so that they could find out the hazards and take the appropriate
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* The ministry of labour has introduced an occupational health an safety awareness program on November 15th 2013. This program provides fundamental information on rights and duties under the occupational health and safety act. Organizations must ensure that all workers and supervisors receive entry-level workplace health and safety training including rights and responsivities and the role of the joint health and safety committee. * The IRS (internal responsibility system), initiates that
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and Well Kept Campus. Physical wellness, safety concerns and proper organization in buildings and its environment especially in campuses constitutes fundamental considerations in the checklist among students waiting to join higher learning institutions. A manager or a university administrator’s role in relation to health and safety is to tighten its health policies and precautionary concerns for its students, teachers, and even visitors. Among the health safety measures include emergency services, emergency
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children are not safe in the school. One recommendation I would suggest would be for every pupil on the school trip to wear a bright colured safety jackets, this would mean that it is easier for all staff to be able to identify every pupil. This would prevent the hazard because if a child was to get lost, they would easily be spotted due to their brightly coloured safety jacket. this would make the rating of the hazard a 1 (unlikely) as every child is easily visible. another way of reducing the hazard would
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and at the right temperatures as well | * Health and safety manager * Staff and managers | ------------- | Collage (cutting and sticking –scissors and glue) | * Cutting him/herself or others * Eat or get glue in the eyes | * Service users * Members of staff and volunteers might be at risk | High | Supervision | Items used must be stored in a place safe | * Members of staff * Day centre manager * Health and safety officer | ------------- | Wheelchairs blocking fire
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Tasks: 1 a) The roles and responsibilities for health, safety and welfare on a construction site The employer Employers have a general duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASAWA) 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, your health, safety and welfare at work’. Specific responsibilities Specific responsibilities are listed in the HASAWA 1974 under the general duties to employees and are as follows: The provision of such information, instruction, training and
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Oil Spill Jose Roberto Dominguez Dr. Ken Rossi MGMT 6000 A (CRN: 1535) September 20, 2015 Table of Contents Case Introduction and Background 3 BP or Industry Failure 4 Most Significant Flawed Decisions 5 Did BP lack the appropriate safety culture? 8 References 12 BP and The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Case Introduction and Background This particular case study created an abundance of unanswered questions for me to consider and made me realize how poorly we are at regulating industries
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