Homework 4 The Global Impact of Safety Jonathan Shuty, Spenser Tripp, Caitlyn Hagarty, Yuliia Kapeliushna Part 1: In the modern Western style industrial setting, the culture has shifted from blind efficiency in production to putting major emphasis on safety and welfare of workers. The Industrial Revolution has long since passed. Manufacturing facilities have had plenty of time to stabilize their processes so that changing them to consider the safety of the worker would not cause an unacceptable
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How to Handle the Safety How to handle the situation Issues can arise in every organization where the HR team must react and make very important decisions taking in consideration the long term place of the organization. In this exercise we encounter with this. When an organization needs to lay off people, there is no perfect way for doing it. Every turn that the organization takes, will lead to a possible scenario where the organization will need to deal with litigation process and this case
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was triggered by an explosion on a Deepwater Horizon oil rig resulting “in the deaths of 11 workers and injuries to another 17 workers” (NIOSH, 2011). Millions of barrels of oil were believed to have leaked into the Gulf, damaging resources, causing health issues, and injuring wildlife. The primary law, in the U.S., for companies conducting deepwater drilling is outlined in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). The OPA “establishes a framework that addresses the liability of responsible parties in connection
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Scenario 1: Most employee handbooks come with rules and regulations and terms of contract of the employment that any reasonable person can qualify as an expressed and implied contract. This is so because procedures, policies, and promises are present in an employee personnel manual. For instance, once an employee receives a handbook from the employer, the interpretation of this action constitutes contract. Therefore, Grey has a case if he chooses to sue NewCorp for a breach of implies employment
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file with the SEC rate protection against retaliation when reporting mail, bank, wire, or securities fraud, regulation and rule violation of the SEC, or violations of other “Federal law relating to fraud against shareholders” (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2011). LEGAL ISSUE The article addresses how whistleblowers can defend themselves under SOX; something that has occurred several times over the decades in business. Whistleblowers uncover fraud and deception to the government
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Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements Legal, safety, and regulatory requirements impact the human resource department by establishing laws which not only protect the employee, but the employer as well. For example, The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is “responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older)
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Abstract The recruiting and hiring process can be extremely time consuming and resource intensive. In order to ensure the company is hiring the right people, it may take months to complete the process. When it comes to employing competent and capable staff, the stakes are high, therefore it is very important to know the steps involved in the process and adhere to them as strictly as possible (Shwiff, 2007). Human Resource Management: Recruiting The process of recruiting and hiring comprises
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of a chemical substance is a level to which it is believed a worker can be exposed day after day for a working lifetime without adverse health effects. Strictly speaking, TLV is a reserved term of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, it is sometimes loosely used to refer to other similar concepts used in occupational health and toxicology. TLVs, along with biological exposure indices (BEIs), are published annually by the ACGIH. The TLV is an estimate based
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of Phoenix Material Health Services and Systems Matrix Choose at least seven services or systems from the following list: • Hospice care • World Health Organization (WHO) • Public health • Rehabilitation center • Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) • Medicare • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) • Center for Disease Control (CDC) • Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) • Joint Commission on
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CASE STUDY OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is a body that was created so that it could implement the occupational safety and health act so that it can protect the employees of any company or business against health hazards, discrimination at work, and unlawful treatment at work. All the business are provided with guidelines that OSHA follows plus how to apply and comply. The act states that the employers have the ethical duty of providing safe working conditions for every employee
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