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28 Cards in this Set
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General Duty Clause
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Clause in the occupational Safety and Health Act covering those situations not addressed by specific standards; in essence, it requires employers to comply with the intent of the act.
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Marshall vs. Barlows
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1978 Supreme Court decision that ruled that employers are not required to admit OSHA inspectors onto their premises without a search warrant; also ruled that probable cause needed to obtain the search warrant is much less than that required in a criminal matter
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OSHA 300 Form
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Forms for recording all occupational injuries and illnesses. Each occurence must be recorded within six working days from the time the employer learns of the accident or illness.
Leave it hang from Feb 1st to Apr. 30th Injury report for 5 years Health report for 30 years |
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What Causes 80% of Accidents?
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Unsafe Personal Acts
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Frequency Rate
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Ratio that indicates the frequency with which disabling injuries occur.
Calculate: # of Injuries x 1 million divided by total number of labor hours worked each year. |
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Threat of Job Loss
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Cutback due to recessionary period or other factors beyond the control of employee
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Job Mismatch
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Job demands skills or abilities that the employee does not possess
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Conflicting Expectations
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Formal organizations concept of expected behavior contradicts the employees concept of expected behavior.
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Role Ambiguity
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Employee is uncertain or unclear about how to perform or what is expected of the job. Also with the relationship between job performance and expected consequences.
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Role Overload
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Employee is incompetent at job.
Employee is asked to do more that time permits |
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Fear/responsibility
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Afraid of performing poorly or failing, feels pressure for high achievment, has resoponsibility for other people.
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Working conditions
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Job environment is unpleasant
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Working relationships
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Individual employees have problems relating to and or working with superiors, peers and subordinates.
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Alienation
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Limited social interaction, no participation in decision making.
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Alcoholism and drug abuse list:
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- Are late 3 times more often
- request time off 2.2 times more often - have 2.5 times as many absenses of 8 days or more - use 3 times the normal level of sick benefits - are 5 times more likely to file a workers comp claim - are involved in accidents 3.6 times more often |
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Discipline
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Action taken against an employee who has violated an organizational rule or whose performance has deteriorated to the point where corrective action is needed
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NLRB vs Weingarten
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Supreme court decision in 1975 holding that an employee has the right to refuse to submit to a disciplinary interview without union representation.
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Grievance procedures
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Outline of the steps to be taken by employees in appealing any management action they believe violates the union contract for corporate procedures agreed to in negotiations.
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Wagner Act
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(National Labor Relations Act) Prolabor act of 1935 that gave workers the right to organize, obligated the management of organizations to bargain in good faith with unions, defined illegal management practices relating to unions, and created the NLRB to administer the act.
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Arbitration
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Process where the parties agree to settle a dispute through the use of an independent 3rd party called an arbitrator.
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Mediator
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Process whereby both parties invite a neutral third party. Has no authority to impose a solution.
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Union shop
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Provision in a contract tgat requires all employees in a bargaining unit to join the union and maintain membership as a condition of employent; most right-to-work laws outlaw the union shop
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Agency shop
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Contract provisions that does not require employees to join the union but requires them to pay the equivalent of union dues as a condition of employment.
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Maintnence of membership
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Contract provision that does not require an employee to join the union but does require employees who do join remain members for a stipulated time period
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checkoff
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Arrangement between an employer and a union under which the employer agrees to withhold union dues, initiation fees, and assessments from the employees' paychecks and submit this money to the union.
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cost of living adjustments (COLA)
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Contract provision that ties wage increases to rises in the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index.
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lockout
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Refusal of an employer to let it's employees work.
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Purpose of OSHA
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Creates standards so employers can be held accountable
Develop mandatory health and safety standards |
