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NAME ____Charles Dike___________
Exercise 14.3 - The Development of a Health and Safety Policy
FORM 14.3.1
1. What questions would you ask Dynamic Duo’s owners?
What is the common factor, place, relationship of the recent accident? Who is in charge of your companies safety, when was the last safety checks and training were done, do employees know of their rights policies, procedures to reporting incidents, workers comp.
2. What legal steps would you recommend that Dynamic Duo take?
Investigate on each situation with a neutral party investigator to understand what happen, get company lawyer incase employees sue, if company solely at fault inform the workers of the workers compensation available to them and any paid time off for injury offered to them.
3. What advice would you give the owners concerning the company’s obligations under OSHA to record accidents?
To have the independent investigator to record the incidents and note any of his findings, all information must be objective, un-biased, properly illustrating the situation and describing what happen. All must be reported to OSHA and have a plan/ program and how to go about correcting any further incidents.
4. Visit www.OSHA.gov and determine if you can provide any additional information to help make the plant safer.
Visiting with the website and seeing all the information and letter that is available to workers to make all kinds of working environment safer, I would suggest to make the plant safer workers should have safety trainings every quarter and each employee should be trained to able to identify a safety hazard and be able to report it.
5. How could Dynamic Duo be issued a citation for an ergonomics violation? Jack Richter says, "I thought Bush got rid of that stupid regulation." What is your response?
Ergonomics are important to every company, it cannot be overlooked or ignored, I doubt that sort of thing and be gotten “rid” of, so I suggest you follow that up with Mr. Bush to see
Exercise 14.3 - The Development of a Health and Safety Policy
FORM 14.3.1
1. What questions would you ask Dynamic Duo’s owners?
What is the common factor, place, relationship of the recent accident? Who is in charge of your companies safety, when was the last safety checks and training were done, do employees know of their rights policies, procedures to reporting incidents, workers comp.
2. What legal steps would you recommend that Dynamic Duo take?
Investigate on each situation with a neutral party investigator to understand what happen, get company lawyer incase employees sue, if company solely at fault inform the workers of the workers compensation available to them and any paid time off for injury offered to them.
3. What advice would you give the owners concerning the company’s obligations under OSHA to record accidents?
To have the independent investigator to record the incidents and note any of his findings, all information must be objective, un-biased, properly illustrating the situation and describing what happen. All must be reported to OSHA and have a plan/ program and how to go about correcting any further incidents.
4. Visit www.OSHA.gov and determine if you can provide any additional information to help make the plant safer.
Visiting with the website and seeing all the information and letter that is available to workers to make all kinds of working environment safer, I would suggest to make the plant safer workers should have safety trainings every quarter and each employee should be trained to able to identify a safety hazard and be able to report it.
5. How could Dynamic Duo be issued a citation for an ergonomics violation? Jack Richter says, "I thought Bush got rid of that stupid regulation." What is your response?
Ergonomics are important to every company, it cannot be overlooked or ignored, I doubt that sort of thing and be gotten “rid” of, so I suggest you follow that up with Mr. Bush to see