Hazards In The Workplace

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    Project in Professional Roles and Values: Professional Mission Statement

    Project in Professional Roles and Values: Professional Mission Statement Professional Mission Statement 1 Abstract This paper is my personal professional mission statement and in the course of this paper I will showcase my professional development plan. During the course of my mission statement, I will explain the functional differences between regulatory agencies and professional nursing organizations as they pertain to my professional nursing practice. I will discuss examples of how provisions

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    Human Resource Management

    accordance to jurisdictions of higher governing bodies. EEO has implications for almost every activity in HRM. No other regulatory area affects HRM as does EEO. EEO programs are implemented by employers to prevent employment discrimination in the workplace or to take remedial action to offset employment discrimination (Ivancevich, 2010). Currently all organizations must produce in print that they are not discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

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    Barbara Fassbinder

    Barbara Fassbinder Barbara Fassbinder graduated from high school in 1971; she married Dave Fassbinder before earning a nursing degree from the University of Iowa in 1975. Barbara’s husband was a commercial bee raiser. Barbara and her husband had three children. They lived in a small Midwestern town, happily married. Barbara worked as a Registered Nurse at Memorial Hospital in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; she lived about 15 miles east of her home in Monona, Iowa. Hilchey, from New York Times

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    The Case for and Against Drug Testing

    The dilemma of whether or not to have a drug-testing policy in corporate America is a colossal subject. Alcohol and drug abuse are considered to be amongst the most common health hazards in the workplace. Drug use in the workplace is an increased liability to employers and can cost companies millions of dollars. In this case study, a company named Castulon Corporation, is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to implement a drug-testing policy. The cause for this dilemma is the fact that upper

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    Job Stress

    health and can also cause the organizations to face loses. The employees who face the problems of work-related stress can be more prone towards the low motivation, unhealthiness, less productiveness, lower satisfaction levels and less safety at workplace. This issue of work-related stress can also disturb the work-life balance and can assert the pressure on work as well as on their family life. In this case their organizations are least likely to gain required output from their workforce and consequently

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    Legal, Safety, and Regulaory Requirements

    improve the work environment to enhance employee performance. Regulatory practices to improve the work environment are base on works of scholars who spearheaded the scientific movement. Human resources law has taken center stage in dealing with workplace violations and excessive abuses. There are many challenges to effective performance measurement in how a human resources manager can ensure accurate measurement of a worker performance. Managers are confronted with five challenges, (1)

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    Employers Duty of Care

    injury. “With the adoption of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) the United States began to address the need to prevent, or minimize workplace accidents and health hazards. The OSH Act created a general duty on the part of every covered employer to maintain a work environment free from “recognized hazards causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees,” (Halbert, T. & Ingulli,

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    Stressssssss

    work-related stress Figure : The impact of workplace demands on physiological and psychological performance Figure 3: How stressful is your work environment? Figure 4: Overwork concern in organisations Figure 5: Self-reported Illness accentuated by work Figure 6: Estimated days lost due to self-reported work-related injury or illness Figure 7: Work-related mental ill-health Figure 8: Percentage of organisations where workers identify stress to be the leading hazard of concern by sector Figure 9: Percentage

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    Tether

    Many of today’s values are derived from respect and responsibility. It is the basis for civility and consideration towards others. We can’t get away with being rude our entire lives and never expect to pay the consequences. Our actions will always lead to some sort of punishment or reward. A disrespectful person will not be followed by good things. If a person is being treated with respect, they are being shown that you expect good things to precede you and them as well. A wise man shows regard

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    Shite

    awkwardly, for example by reaching, stooping or twisting. To best avoid injury when carrying out manual handling activities it is important for empolyers and employyes to follow these steps: Step 1 - Think about all the activities within the workplace which require staff to move materials and decide if the manual handling is actually necessary. For example could trolleys, hoists, chutes, roll cages, lift trucks or any other lifting aids be used to help. Step 2 - If the manual handling can not

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