Question 1 Rewriting Memo
Employee safety is a prime concern of ChemConcepts, and the company is following guidelines and legislation for this purpose. The company needs a well-defined policy for handling of chemicals and materials as well. The purpose of this policy is to ensure the safe handling and storage of chemicals that are flammable or volatile. In the past, no clear policy has been drawn. In last meeting on November, 3rd, it was decided to draw clear procedures for the handling of materials. Now another meeting in sequence of the issue has been called on November, 28 from 1:00-5:00. In this meeting issue of chemical safety will be discussed. The meeting will be attended by VP of Research and Development, as well as other safety officers. Everyone is required to draft a safety policy and bring 15 copies of the draft to distribute to other members at the meeting. Reviewing these drafts, a comprehensive policy will be drafted which will be applicable to all the other laboratories.
Question 2 OSHA Fact Sheet
Floods cause disruption of water and sewage disposal systems. Most of the times floods break different epidemics in the flooded areas. The flood water has in it different kinds of bacteria, germs and virus. These microbes can cause several diseases in the flood cleanup crew. The symptoms of diseases are vomiting, nausea and headaches. Sometimes, the flood water becomes contaminated with industrial and agricultural waste and causes different skin and other diseases. Moreover, pools and water reservoirs become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and cause different mosquito-borne diseases. In such cases, safety should be kept a priority of the cleaning staff. They should wash their hands before meals and during break times.
The water should be properly disinfected. If clean water is not available for washing, it is recommended to use bottled water. The workers should wear long-sleeved shirts to avoid mosquito and other animal bites. In the case of symptom of any disease, medical help should be sought on the urgent basis. The workers should wash their hands with boiled and disinfected water after their shifts. They should be vaccinated along with the resident people for all kind of possible diseases. The infected food should be discarded immedialtely.
Question 3 “Slowed to a Crawl”
The core mission of the outreach program is to serve the needy people. It works on the donations that people make to Kent Medical. The new website has boosted the donations, but hindered the department to perform its core function. People from South America and Africa are facing problems in filling the request forms for help. If they switch to the old website, their purpose of serving humanity will be fulfilled, but at the cost of large donations and if they continue with the current website, they are not able to serve. In my view, they should not sacrifice their core mission and should switch back to old website. There is one more solution to the problem. They should location based services for their websites. Forinstance, MSN, Yahoo, Google, etc all of them kept on preserving new website looks after a period of time continuously. The purpose is to discarde the old website looks and to reposition it in the mind of the individuals. The facebook is also an example of one of them.
In areas of South America and Africa, where internet connections are slow, and technology is old, their old website should be displayed. In the case of slow or dial-up connections, basic html version of the website should be displayed. This technology is already in use by Google for their mail accounts. In this way, the up to date computers with high speed connections will be able to display their new, interactive website while slow computers with slow internet connection will display a basic version of the website. In this way, the problem of donations as well as outreach to disparity areas will be solved.
