The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created by Congress under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to ensure workers were provided with safe and healthy working conditions. Congress found that personal injuries and illnesses were more frequent in work related situations, which caused a loss in production, a decrease in wages, elevated medical expenses, and substantial disability compensation payments. In order to prevent personal injuries or illnesses in the work place, standards were established under the Act, which were taught to employers and employees through trainings and outreach. These standards provided workplace health and safety regulations to limit/prevent an employee’s exposure to possible hazardous situations/environments. In particular, Part 1910 covers Occupational Safety and Health Standards, which can range from hand protection to requirements for fixed ladders.…
Non-violence works as a strategy to bring about change because it is morally and strategically superior to any other strategy, and because it works for changes that will benefit all people. Non-violence, as a morally and strategically superior method to bring about change is first seen in Document 1. Document 1 is a letter from Mohandas Gandhi to the English governor in India where Gandhi explains why he plans to use non-violence and how doing so will make British recognize the “wrong they have done to India,” (Doc 1/ Letter to Irwin). Also in the document, Gandhi points out that the physical harming of a peaceful entity violates the morals of nearly every civilization around the Globe. This means that by using non-violence, Gandhi’s movement is morally superior to his opposition, which put the morals and reputation of the opposition into play, coaxing the other side to comply with Gandhi’s requests.…
Madisyn Crane :) :) The Causes of Violence Depression, bad parenting, and media are causes of violence. These causes of violence are very common. Some people say “violence is not the answer” this saying is very true.…
A Doctor Who Treats Violence (Ch. 9) Martavia Lambert and Anthony Brown both grown up in the slums, were married for two years with children, and and they had a very abusive and unhealthy relationship. Lambert killed Brown during a fight one night, they were one out of three murders that night. Crime and violence cause a lot of economic problems. Early interventions are expensive, but they become more difficult to deal with later in life.…
Cure Violence www.cureviolence.org Cure Violence is an organization founded by epidemiologist Gary Slutkin. Dr. Slutkin spent a decade in underdeveloped countries, fighting epidemic diseases. When he returned to the US, he’d all but forgotten what it was like to have running water, and adjustable temperature in the home. He also had no news of the US, so he found it both dismaying and compelling to hear about the rampant violence in some parts of the US, most especially in Chicago, Illinois. As a result, Dr. Slutkin began researching the violence problem in the same way that he tracked infectious diseases in those other countries, and he found that the trajectories were the same.…
Lobbying for safe staffing goes hand in hand with what a labor organization represents. The American Nurses Association works to ensure safe working environments for nurses on a national and state level. Labor laws protect nurses through collective bargaining by encouraging hospital management and executives to follow guidelines on patient-to-nurse ratios for safer practice (Budd et al., 2004). The legislation for safe staffing is needed to strengthen the power of labor laws in all states nationally to ensure safe patient-to-nurse ratios occur in every…
There were 32% nurses that agreed is appropriate to take legal action against an assaultive patient. This is why OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has legal obligation to provide a safe and healthful workplace for employees. OSHA also made some guidelines on preventing violence in the workplace. They would be management commitment, work analysis, hazard prevention, education and training, record keeping, and…
Violence is prevalent in today’s society. The violence you may hear about could lead to the death of family, friends and loved ones. Just like the violence took the death of Samuel Dubose in Cincinnati, Ohio by Officer Tensing Ray. “Officer Tensing stated that he almost was run over by the driver…was forces to shoot the driver with his duty weapon…he fired a single shot…he was being dragged by the vehicle and had to fire his weapon” (Blow, The New York Times). “The video proves that none of that happened” (Blow, The New York Times).…
Introduction: Horizontal violence has become a way too familiar in the nursing profession (Weinand, M. R. (2010). Approximately 80% of nurses stated being bullied and around 75% have been harassed or been the victims of aggressive and intimidating behaviours during their careers (Hader, 2008; Hutchinson, Wilkes, Jackson, & Vickers, 2010). Horizontal violence can be defined as ………….. The Joint Commission notes that in an unhealthy environment where nurses and nursing students are the victims of horizontal violence their level of stress is higher, they have a decrease in job satisfaction, and clinical outcomes are compromised (2008). When the environment is unhealthy it can increase costs of caring for patients due to medical errors and will…
Nursing is my field of study my current occupation as a unit technician at the hospital is the help I'm receiving to work towards my future in becoming a Register Nurse. Register nurses need all the support they can receive, because the percentage of death and stress on a nurse is high. There is many support from the Texas House Representative Donna Howard provides grants to prevent Violence in the Health Care Workplace and Set Up a Confidential System for tracking rape kits. In the health care field with tend to work with different types of people with different personality from psych to jail inmates. The common harassment workers can receive from patients is violence in the workplace which is hazard for nurses and other health care workers.…
Even though violence is meant to destroy, violence is justified in order to achieve lawfulness because all sensible violence is a sought to achieve justice, sometimes violence is a compromise in and of itself. The most obvious answer people give to why violence is wrong is because violence quite simply destroys; however, if you consider justice as the destruction of injustice, then violence can be justified. All violence with any amount of reason behind it, is sought for the purpose of justice in one way or another. A dictator would attack his own people in order to stimulate the economy, because he feels that he or his country deserves better.…
Ever wonder why criminals commit the inhuman acts of violence that they do, or why large quantities of people are involved in drug usage despite knowing the negative consequences to themselves? Well sociology is a field where professionals consider why people do things rather than focusing on the who, what and when questions when gathering information. Max Weber was a German theorist in sociologist who also produced works in economic, law, philosophy and history fields. He lived from 1864 to 1920 and, in that lifespan, Weber shared many sociological views and theories to explain the functioning of society. One of his many theories included the idea that behavior is the result of habit, higher values, emotions and self-interest.…
Collaborate The discussion touch on the police and minorities in the community and whether or not the use of brutality or police usage of deadly force is something worthy of attention and discussion. I think anything that has been a fatality in the community and family life, on an almost continuous basis deserve the attention whether it was an accident or something that was attentional. I think that it needs discussing because maybe something can change the situation the next time. The collaborate class talked about a paper that was done with Professor Gutierrez and Dr. Getty a new facility member, talked about the police abuse on the force, so these men did an examination of police and citizens from 1999-2011.…
Prevention programs should be given to employees on a regular basis. Training and education about workplace violence should be provided just like regular staffs meeting are. The main…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is increasing their enforcement efforts in the healthcare field concerning workplace violence and safety (Wey). As a business, Human Resource Professionals are responsible for the safety and health of their employees. Particularly in the healthcare field, injuries from work place violence is four times more likely to occur than in any other field. In 2013, there were 100 reported fatalities in healthcare facilities, 80% were due to workplace violence with patients (Wey). From a business standpoint, HR cannot afford to lose employees legally and financially.…