Brief Background of OSHA OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) officially formed on April 28‚ 1971‚ the date that the OSH Act became effective. George Guenther was appointed as the agency’s first director. OSHA has developed a number of training‚ compliance assistance‚ and health and safety recognition programs throughout its history. The OSHA Training Institute‚ which trains government and private sector health and safety personnel‚ began in 1972. In 1978‚ the agency began a grant
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OSHA Trenching Requirements Every month two workers are killed in trench collapses and that requires the employer to follow requirements and safety procedures. The trenching and excavation requirements of 29 CFR 1926.651 and 1926.652 or comparable OSHA-approved state plan requirements must be complied by the employer at all times. A man made cut‚ dig‚ cavity‚ trench‚ or depression in an earth surface is what defines excavation. Trench is a narrow excavation below the surface of the ground and
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OSHA Lawsuit The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against a Helena-based company named Kbec Inc. in January 2013. Kbec Inc. is a Dairy Queen franchisee that‚ “illegally terminated an employee for making complaints regarding workplace violence at the company ’s facility.” (Todd & Rodriguez‚ 2013). In this article‚ there are no details given on what was the nature of the complaints filed by the employee originally‚ however‚ searching
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In 1997 University of California‚ San Francisco (UCSF) merged its two public hospitals with Stanford’s two private hospitals. The two separate entities merged together to create a not-for-profit organization titled UCSF Stanford Health Care. The merger between the health systems at UCSF and Stanford seemed like a good idea due to the similar missions‚ proximity of institutions‚ increased financial pressure with cutbacks in Medicare reimbursements followed by a dramatic increase in managed care organizations
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dwelling on what they should rightly be receiving. 2. Before being granted full authority for its occupational safety and health programs‚ a state must go through three steps. What are they? To gain OSHA approval for a developmental plan - the first step in the State plan process - a State must assure OSHA that within three years it will have in place all the structural elements necessary for an effective occupational safety and health program. These elements include: appropriate legislation; regulations
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There are many indications that a medical office is compliant to OSHA. Four OSHA regulations that a medical office should have are: There should always be an OSHA poster present in the office for all of the employees to see. The poster explains worker rights to a safe workplace and how to file a complaint. There should be a use of labels or color-coding for items such as sharps disposal boxes and containers for regulated waste‚ contaminated laundry‚ and certain specimens. Every employee should be
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I believe that the United States of America should adopt a system of Universal Healthcare and based on the Frontline program I believe that the Switzerland health care model would be the most palatable to Americans. I say this because Switzerland’s old system was most like the system we have now in the US with passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Switzerland had an uninsured rate of 5% before their referendum and here in the US‚ according to the obamacarefacts.com the US’s uninsured rate is
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CS204 Unit 5 Assignment OSHA stands for the Occupational Safety and Heath Administration‚ which is a US agency for the Department of Labor. OSHA’s priority is the safety of workers and health protection. OSHA was created and passed by Congress in 1970. Until 1970‚ there were no US laws protecting employee’s safety and health in the work force and this is why OSHA came to be. There are workers who do not qualify for protection by OSHA; public employees‚ mine workers‚ truck and transportation
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OSHA’s Strategic Management Plan for 2003-2008 The OSHA Strategic Management Plan for 2003-2008 was a management tool that outlined OSHA’s ongoing process to evaluate‚ control‚ and reduce workplace fatalities‚ injuries‚ and illnesses for specific industries during the projected period. According to a May 12‚ 2003 OSHA Trade Release‚ OSHA’s plan was to “support the Department of Labor’s Strategic Plan” (OSHA’s 2003-2008 Strategic Management Plan Goals‚ 2003). The plan established three main goals
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Introduction JCAHO is an abbreviation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is a non-for-profit organization that seeks to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. It is an organization made up of individuals from the private medical
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