Essays on Occupational Health

Internship Paper

The purpose of this paper is to explain the entire internship experiences that I personally and professionally encountered during the timeline of internship position as “Subway Assistant Manager”. It firstly determines the challenges and difficulties that arose during the internship program. It then describes the duties and responsibilities of the internship with respect to the performed tasks and undertaken activities. It also gives an overview of the company description including its name, location, the category of product/service, and the approximate size of the company. It then explains how the internship prepared me for the workforce through gaining of three ...

ConocoPhillips Australia is the world’s largest independent production company of liquids and natural gas. The company explores and develops crude oil and natural gas internationally. As a result, ConocoPhillips is committed to safety, operating excellence and environmental awareness. Currently, ConocoPhilips operates in over 30 countries, 17,500 employees as of 2013, and an annual return capital of $55 billion. Out of the 30 countries that ConocoPhilips have had activities in, the company has set out six major operation segments between Latin America, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Other International sectors. This report will be focusing on ...

A windshield or a walking survey is a way of observing the community to note its characteristics hence aiding in the assessment of the community. From such a survey, it is possible to better understand the general or specific conditions or an aspect within the community. This technique is useful when the area to be surveyed is large with limited personnel but the aspects to be observed should be seen from the road. This survey helps community health providers to identify the needs of the community especially those relating to health. This study is an observational assessment that aims ...

The topic I have chosen for this assignment is “Home health care patients and safety hazard at home”, from the risk assessment topic. This teaching exemplar can be used to educated home healthcare nurse’s organization. Sollecito & Johnson (2013), identified clinical microsystem as the place where most of the errors and mistakes that affect health care quality and safety arise. The clinical microsystem is formed by healthcare personals who work directly with the patient and their families (Sollecito & Johnson 2013). Background: Home health care is a fast growing industry. All of the healthcare that is provided at home comes ...

OPERATIONS SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN

General Considerations This Operations Safety Management Plan (OSMP) will apply to all staff as well as departments within the facility. Matters concerning security will be handled by members of the department of security who will be based in the facility. The members of the security have been adequately trained to perform tasks usually handled by security. However, the members of the security work on the presumption that they will not be armed anytime they are at work and that they are not authorized to engage in police activities. In a case where there is a need for police assistance, ...

Auto repair industry is probably the most accident prone industry throughout the world and is an issue of major concern for the ILO, employees, government authorities and employers. Not only does health and safety related accidents and diseases have traumatic effects on the auto repair workers, they require owners to pay huge compensation and medical bills to the victim and penalties for OSH violations. The major health and safety hazards comprise of accidents or deaths caused by getting crushed under inadequately supported vehicles, toxic emissions from exhausts, asbestos fumes, cuts and bruises from tools, burns, eyesight damage, stress and ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety are associated with the safety, health, and welfare of employees who are engaged in work. It plays an important role in managing the company’s operations. The report addresses workplace hazards and provides information about the accidents and injuries occurred in the engineering industry. One of the main aims of the report is to indicate ways of mitigating the risk of loss. The purpose of this technical report is to demonstrate that the author has engineering knowledge, professional competence, and technical ability to carry out the essential research in detail about the health and safety ...

CONTENTS 1. Part I - Occupational Health and Safety Law 3 1.1. The UK Approach to Regulating Occupational Health and Safety 4 1.1.1. The Role of Legislation (Civil, Criminal and Administrative), other sources of law and recommendations 4 1.1.2. The Role of Law Enforcement and Specialized Agency 6 1.1.3. The Role of Courts 7 1.2. Comparison between the UK and the Brazilian approaches to OSH regulation 8 2. Part II – Management and its Impact on OSH 8 2.1. Administrative approach to management 9 2.2. Scientific management 9 2.3. Behavioral approach to management 10 2.4. Co-operative social systems approach 11 ...

Community health is regarded as a critical economic driver in developed nations. In the US, the Healthy People Vision 2020 has been developed to identify the community, family, and personal illnesses that cause significant nation burden of disease. Significant emphasis has been laid on healthy communities, as changes have been occurring in the areas of medical financing, focus, and policy (Don, 2016). In view of this, the current paper will assess the community health needs and risks of the King`s County community in Washington. The paper will analyze their needs towards work related injuries in relation to the ...

` Ford Company is a world leader in the automotive and automotive related services and products and the new industries like financial, communications and aerospace services. Henry Ford in Detroit, United States, founded the company in 1903, and it is headquartered in the Dearborn, Michigan (Ford Motor Company, 2009). Its mission entails improving its products and services continually to meet the needs and desires of its customers, prosper as a business, and provide a reasonable return to stakeholder’s business owners. The core values that are fundamental to its success are people who provide corporate intelligence and improve its vitality ...

I am a college student studying in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. The start of every semester is always a hectic time. I’m always juggling my career, classes, family, and friends. There are a few strategies that will help me achieve College success.

Career Goals

The most important strategy for attaining College Success is knowing your career goals and how you are planning to accomplish these goals. My first step when setting my career goals was creating a mission statement that reminded me every time why I want to be an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. My Mission ...

Introduction

Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

Critical Thinking in Action

2016-06-29 Critical Thinking in Action

Introduction

The issue of the providing safety of employees is quite important in the enterprise. It should be noted that safety technique is a set of rules and regulations designed to ensure safe working conditions and carrying out different kinds of work. In our case, it concerns the production shop. The list of all the safety regulations, aimed at meeting the requirements of labor protection is usually presented as the special instructions for employees. It should be noted that each enterprise should have management system that provide an appropriate safety level for employees in the ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human Resource Management is responsible for attracting, selecting, recruiting, placing, recognizing, engaging, retaining and rewarding people while developing anticipated organizational culture and leadership, as well as, ensuring compliance with national and international labor and employment laws. Mostly, small to medium organizations manage their HRM activities by outsourcing their human resource functions to specialized HRM firms. Other hires few HR professionals. However, larger business corporations uphold an all-inclusive HRM functional division that is characteristically dedicated to the specialized tasks such as strategic recruitment and selection, employee engagement, and development of functional leadership across the business undertakings (Bratton & Gold, 2011, ...

In this document, readers will be presented with a description of the expertise and knowledge of fire fighting. Fire fighting is an exceptionally imperative job. It protects many lives and possessions. Fire fighters put their life in danger each single day to help and protect the general public. All of the various concepts and knowledge, along with standards and professional qualification discussed in the course are proposed to present effective fire investigators with a base intensity of understanding in certain topics that involves fire investigation. The topics are summarized in NFPA 1033 – Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Investigator ...

Walt Disney Corporation has a loyal base of consumers that is long established since its founding in the 1920s. Today, Walt Disney Company comprises over 5 distinct business components including Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Interactive, Parks and Resorts and Consumer Products. Constantly emphasizing a dedication towards creating timely entertainment for the whole family, Walt Disney passed on a legacy towards maintaining fantasy, a legacy which its theme parks continue to be known. This papers considers the history and place of the amusement part industry via a situation analysis. It specifically considers Disney by identifying its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and ...

Abstract

In times of crisis, several people are involved. The first responders, recovery, as well as clean up groups, get into direct contact with several hazards. After their respective works, they report mental, social, and physical health problems. These issues can be curbed by ensuring that occupational health and safety services are offered to these people. Counseling and bio-monitoring are also crucial services during these moments. The medical health department, as well as the government, should strive to ensure that Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) is enforced at every place of work including crisis sites. This would protect every ...

Part A:

Choose a manual handling task common to community services work, and based upon this, complete a risk assessment using the same questions as in the example. 1b. Briefly explain why you should record hazard identification according to workplace procedures. (Matrix Source: Govt. South Australia, Department of Education and Children's Services, Health and Safety Services.) 2b. Explain why you chose that category. (20-50 words) 3. Describe the negative impact upon the muscles of the body for the pictures with poor posture. (50-100 words) 4. Identify how the way we move our bodies when performing a manual handling task can reduce ...

Stakeholders in Organizational Health and Safety

The primary directive of the OHS is illness and accident prevention. The discipline realizes that employees have the fundamental right to have a job environment that does not harm their well-being and ruin their medical outcomes. The field of occupational health and safety has various essential stakeholders who are expected to carry out the practices and ensure that the business follows the security regulations. Each active stakeholder has a crucial role to execute. Some of the stakeholders mentioned in the slides include workers, employers, and the government. Industry owners must ensure that the safety regulations are known by everyone ...

Introduction

This paper discusses the problem of workplace violence. Since workplace violence is one of the managerial issues that have been brought to the upfront in the recent times, it’s necessary to discuss it at a detailed level to prevent future cases of workplace violence that may result in either an instance of death or even monetary losses to the organizations where it happens. Workplace violence entails any form or threat of harassment, intimidation, physical abuse or any other such disorderly conduct that takes place in a work environment. Moreover, it becomes difficult for most of the managers at ...

Human factors are commonly referred to as a field of learning which consists of several disciplines such as psychology, industrial design, engineering, operations research, anthropology, and even statistics. Additionally the main focus of this field of learning is on the elements of engineering, empiricism, perception, and also cognition. It mostly involves the determination and identification of the different capabilities and limitations of humans including various elements of engineering such as design application, development, distribution along with the categorization of the different systems and services. These elements and information are usually incorporated into programs used in the nursing practice. The ...

Super K Radiator Repair deals with the repair of repairs and building of copper-brass radiator which are found in hot rods, restored cars and large tracks. The repairing process includes the removal of copper-brass radiator from the vehicle, repairing it, and installing it back (Nunez, 1993). There are a lot of injuries that occur during the repair and building of radiators which require the attention of the emergency kitty. A number of injuries have occurred to the four employees of the company some being severe to include broken toes and fingers. The operations of the company are risky and ...

Under this section, the impact of Occupational Health and Safety Legislation on both the behavior of an employer and employee is discussed. When both the employers and employees fully understand the need or importance of health and safety programs, they become alert in their behavior since awareness about the potential hazards, to which the office staff is exposed, among all organizational members increases. Resultantly, employers and employees can now prevent illness and injury at the workplace. When employers get to know about the legislation concerning health and safety programs, they tend to display a responsible behavior. Not only they ...

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Occupational health and safety strategies can be identified as one of the primary objectives to be maintained at the human resources management level. In order to define workplace safety, it would be the responsibility of the management to deploy effective strategic safety program so that the employees attached to the organization can work safely. Primarily, the safety programs have been developed to deal with unsafe employee actions and unsafe working condition. In the case of designing a proper strategic safety program, the organization must make it sure that the safety planning must fulfill all the requirement of overall employee ...

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HR Strategy in alignment with business strategy It is important to plan the HR strategies after analyzing and consider the business strategy of the organization. Ford Motors is one of the reputed public trading companies in the global market that is known for maintaining a productive corporate culture in the organization. The HR hiring and recruitment strategy are planned according to the needs of the business strategy to have a healthy workplace and working environment in the organization (Gonring, 2008). The HR strategies can be aligned with the business strategies by communicating the business plans with the HR department ...

Occupational Safety and Health

1. Citation commonly referred as the U.S. DOJ for illegitimate proceedings Any case regarding punishment for occupational health and safety violation can cite as U.S Department of Justice for a legal action. The modern day breach under this citation is divided into two sets namely: severe and willful violation of stipulated rules (Collins, 2002). 2. The requirements that need to be fulfilled amid citations to be represented for criminal hearings. The time before the citation could be presented for prosecution, they had to meet some of the following requirements. Firstly, in case the company did not succeed to establish ...

ABSTRACT

Pilot uniforms, particularly in the commercial airline industry, conveys professionalism, competence, and experience. However, historically, uniforms started as a component of safety in aviation, which relied not just in their protective functions but as well in their capability to protect combat pilots from the natural elements of extreme heat and cold, particularly during the era of open cockpits. Protective flight clothing has evolved significantly through decades and even centuries. The sophisticated development in protected flight clothing, however, failed to influence adaption in the civil air transport industry. Using grounded theory through archival literature analysis, the Capstone Project revealed advantages ...

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Executive Summary / Abstract

As industrialization has progressed, it has become more diverse and complex leading to higher incidence of occupational accidents, injuries, and diseases. Progress made in design and technology has minimized accidents due to system fault. In the changed circumstances, safety professionals have taken a central role in hazard management endeavor of an organization. Safety professionals are those who know their job, have integrity and can communicate to above and below regarding safety. They continuously seek to improve their knowledge and ability. They strive to prevent or mitigate harm or damage to people, property, and ...

Introduction:

Occupational exposure to silica crystals has long been identified and recognized in most of the industries. There are various industries that involved the silica dusts, where some are highly exposed beyond the threshold limits for the substances. The problem with the occupational exposure of workers to silica crystals are often not taken seriously be employer and employee alike. Exposure to silica in the occupational environment results to health effects such as silicosis and other related diseases. People who are working with these crystals are prone to respiratory effects as well. There is a problem in the safety and health ...

Citation that can be referred to the U.S. DOJ for criminal proceedings Citations of penalty for occupational health and safety violation can be referred to U.S. Department of Justice for a criminal prosecution. The present violation, under this citation, is divided into two categories which are; willful and severe violation (Morey, 1975). Conditions that would have to be met before citations are referred for criminal proceedings. Before a citation gets referred for criminal prosecution, there are criteria that must be met. The most important creterion is the company’s failure to identify whether the workers have been exposed to ...

Analysis of Case Study 1

Possibilities and addressing areas of concern The employer is responsible for maintaining a proper Occupational Health and Safety at the workplace. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, the employers must maintain an appropriate environment for the organization and recognize the physical as well as psychological health impacts of the workplace on the employees (Gibson, 2014). In this case, Joe Peterson worked in an atmosphere that was not familiar for a aged person. He used to carry a large number of items from up the stairs that made him feel ill in the workplace. The area in ...

Introduction

The Occupational Health and Safety laws provide guidelines of creating and maintaining healthy and safe work environments . The construction industry comprises of multifaceted work settings where a wide arrange of employees, hazards, jobs and activities take place. In such a sector, a mode of health precaution and safety guidelines should be provided and in Canada the OHS takes care of that. Canada is under the ownership of Alberta Government and is protected by law. Recently, a construction worker got killed in Ottawa by a big piece of ice at a deep construction site. This piece of ice was from ...