Introduction Occupational Safety and Health is a practical field which is concerned with the safety, health and welfare of people in their workplaces. OSH not only protects workers, but also co-workers, workers' family members, employers, customers and anyone who is expected to be affected by the workplace or experience and accident or injury there. One of the most important aspects of OSH is emergency exits and fire protection systems. I have chosen this topic because fires can break out anytime
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Community Teaching Plan: Teaching Experience Paper Gayatri Gajaria NRS 427V Grand Canyon University December 22, 2014 Community Teaching Plan: Teaching Experience Paper For this assignment, I chose my community in city of Montclair, CA. The teaching was done at Montclair Christian Church. The target audience for this teaching plan was parents of infants, pregnant women, and the topic I addressed was Fall Prevention. Falls occurs most frequently in infants when they are trying to explore
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deadliest in US history. No one knew that the tiny spark of a cigarette would cause 146 deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The negligence of proper fire safety equipment, poor building design, absence of an appropriate fire escape, and substandard evacuation routine caused innocent lives to wither in the inferno. Disregarding proper safety measures had a resounding effect in the tragedy. As Abramowitz was taking his coat and hat from a nearby peg, he noticed the fire. The fire that would ultimately
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As a lifeguard, I have learned that it’s important to be alert to prevent injuries like slipping on the pool deck or hitting one’s head in the shallow end. On two separate occasions within one week, I conducted two rescues: one involving an eight-year-old girl; and the other, a little boy. Both times, when I saw signs of each swimmer struggle under water, I blew my whistle to clear the pool, jumped in, and performed the proper rescue. As a senior guard at the Robin Road Pool in Hillsborough, I
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Truck tarps protect your load from the weather and prevent it from falling or blowing out on to the road where it can damage the vehicles behind and possibly cause an accident. Depending on the load, securing the tarp can be difficult. For example, sometimes the air flow may cause the tarp to do a lot of flapping and allow rain water underneath. Proper securement may require a different method from the one you're using now. Below are three ways of securing truck tarps. Cord and Grommets This is
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Raymond Kilgore was always big on safety of others. He worked in construction on most theme parks in Florida. Grandpa Ray and his coworkers turned friends always got the job done. He always made sure his coworkers were safe and secure when on construction sites. On this particular day the sun was bright and everything was going right. During this time they were working on Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Grandpa Ray and John was working on putting bricks on a restaurant being built on the strip of the theme
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Child safety seats are designed to protect children from injury or death during the car accidents. Each year, thousands of children are killed or injured because of the car accidents and safety seats help to protect children (Car Seats); however, the child safety seats did not appear until 1962. There were two inventors who invented the child safety seats: one was Briton Jean Ames, who invented the featured a Y-strap, which was similar than the modern one. The other designer was American Len Rivkin
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“Triangle Fire of 1911” is a documentary based on the fire that occurred in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911, in which 145 workers of various ages died. The shirtwaist factory fire was the deadliest workplace accident in history, although shirtwaist factory workers had gone on strike for better working conditions before the fire it was not until after the tragedy that several laws were passed to improve working conditions. “The Triangle Fire of 1911” also talks about how the women
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that occurred in 1911 was a huge tragedy and led to discussion of why safety regulations are important. The girls couldn’t escape because the made assumptions about the moral character of the works and locked the doors that led to the fabric so the workers didn’t steal any. The fire killed 148 people because there was no escape route; so most of the people either jumped out the window or burned in the fire. If there had been safety regulations in the factory then there would have been fire escape doors
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a rule but it's there to provide fast ways in order to get things done efficiently but in a safe manner. During the industrial revolution this policy of safety wasn't followed through deeming it as a curse. There were multiple violations such as the door blockage so if there were to be a fire there would be many casualties because of the safety hazard. An incessant that represents this is "The Triangle Shirt Factory Fire" which had 114 casualties"". Since factories were requiring employees people
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