The work environment in the garment industries is unhealthy and unsafe for the workers resulting in several health problems. A healthy and motivated workforce is the key ingredient for productivity and economic prosperity. Complicated and hazardous technologies are believed to raise health risks along with safety requirements for workers, resulting in high rates of accidents, occupational disease and unhealthy working environment. Garments industry constitutes about 7% of total industrial production
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Assignment No. 5 “As a Building / Facility Manager, your client requires your expert advise on the following matters listed below. Discuss the issues below using relevant legislation:” i. The key requirement of the Occupational safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994 applicable to the management of a building/facility. The concept of management is to be effective in reducing incidents and injury. To be an effective management frame work, the organization as a whole need to understand it roles
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Legal, safety and regulatory requirements on HR process Name Course Instructor Institution Date Safety, legal and regulatory matters have an enormous effect on the human resource because common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigations. In the society today, litigation seems to be an increasing greatly and administrators try to create human resource processes that avoid any possible litigation on them and their organizations (Dimond, 2010). I completely agree
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renovation area. They will also be required to decontaminate with proper hygiene practices in a separate location away from the renovation area. The workers at the site will be adequately trained about asbestos exposure and hazards(Occupational Safety & Health Administration,n.d.). I would handle the rest of the departments in the following order: chemistry department, automotive department, physics department, biology department, math department, English department. 3. Asbestos exposure
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Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements Celletta Tate HCS/341 Human Resources in Health Care 2/11/13 Gina Drake The safety, legal, and regulatory is the most important law an organization because the department involves employing, developing, utilizing, managing and understanding the staff in an organization. Legal concerns can play an important role in staffing, particularly in selection (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy, 2010). Many legal restraints, particularly federal legislation
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School of Health Sciences, NewYork, NY, USA Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA b Received 5 January 2004; received in revised form 25 May 2004; accepted 26 May 2004 Available online 11 August 2004 Abstract This research was conducted to examine the biomechanical features of currently used cash register designs in New York State. Comparisons and conclusions about the designs are based on the current Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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frequency and providing systems to prevent falls from heights) 2. ensure that the use, handling, storage and transport of chemicals (such as dangerous goods and other harmful materials) is safe and without risks to health 3. ensure that the workplace is safe and without risks to health (such as fire exits are not blocked, emergency equipment is serviceable, and the worksite is generally tidy) 4. provide workers and contractors with adequate facilities (such as first aid, clean toilets, clean
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MGT2396 - Occupational Health & Safety Assignment #4 - Find the Hazards Hazard #1 Describe the Hazard: There are various electrical wires hanging from the ceiling, one being an electrical outlet. These hanging wires are near various metal and wood beams, we can assume that these wires are live carrying an electrical current. What type of Hazard: Electrical safety. Possible outcome if left unaddressed: If the employees whom work for this company need to use the electrical outlets, they
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Health and Safety Management Systems - An Analysis of System Types and Effectiveness EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION 2. HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 3. TYPES OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PART ONE: LITERATURE AND FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT 3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 LITERATURE ON TYPES OF HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PART TWO: CASE EVIDENCE 3.3 SYSTEM TYPES - CASE STUDY FINDINGS 3.4 SUMMARY 4. ASSESSING HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS PART ONE: LITERATURE
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Environment: Employee Health and Safety Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Title Date Introduction In this paper ethical issue or situation, which will be discussed in regard to current, previous, or potential future work environment is "Employee Health & Safety", which in present had been the essential issue of government of every nation. In current unstable culture employers, unions, employees as well as government agencies interest in the health along with the safety associated problems
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