Health and Safety Essay

While the current economic situation has slowed the pace of business, construction, manufacturing and business in general has not by any means ground to a halt. People are still working and on-the-job accidents can still happen, whether in an office, in a manufacturing facility or on a construction site. When you are injured on the job, your main concerns are recovering from your injury and for your family's well being while you are injured. You need to get the treatment and rehabilitation…

Accident and incident policy When a child hurts themselves in the setting the practitioner should comfort them and get the first aider. If it is an emergency the manager and the child’s parents should be informed and an ambulance called. The nursery should have permission from the parents to call the ambulance in a emergency. If it is not an emergency once the child’s injuries have been tended to and the accident incident and emergency form or book needs to be filed in as it is a statutory…

The purpose of well-built an EAP with proper training of the employee is to reduce the injuries and protect the environment and result in less structural and equipment damage of the facility and lead in organized evacuation during the emergency response such as fire, chemical spill, and natural disaster. 2. Describe four components of an EAP. Reporting and alerting authorities is one of the EAP component, that includes the participation or support of the fire, police, rescue, and medical…

Before the introduction of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970 worker safety was not necessarily on the forefront of everyone employers mind. The safety movement in general had gotten an early start, somewhere between 1907 and 1912, where nearly every state that was industrialized had some form of safety laws in place after the public had grown too enraged over the accident levels that had reached high peaks around 1907. The problem, however, was that many of these laws were…

How Does OSHA Raise Penalties 82% and We Don’t Notice? The two year Budget Agreement that president Obama signed in November 2 under closed doors, surprisingly included provisions that authorized Occupational Safety & Health Administration raised the penalties by as much as 50% to a new historic high level of 82%. This was the first time the penalty was being raised since Bush senior’s tenure in office, 15 years ago. In spite of the increase, Statistics indicate that OSHA fines are still…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, also known as OSHA, is a government agency that is part of the United States Department of Labor. The mission of the agency is to “assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance” (“About OSHA”). Its purpose is to minimize injuries, illnesses, and deaths in the American workplace by protecting workers from dangerous conditions…

Mr. Daniel Madrzykowski recently wrote an article on the dynamics of fire science dealing within the fire service. Firefighting dynamics focus on many points dealing with the chemistry of firefighting and the many changes that are involved with fire behavior and the products of combustion associated with each object(Madrzykowski, 2016). Controlling the growth of the fire and knowing what the fire is doing in a structure is a great tool for company officers to use during firefighting tactics…

LeMessurier told them “You have a social obligation… you’re supposed to be self-sacrificing and look beyond the interests of yourself and your client to society as a whole”. This quote makes it clear that LeMessurier’s first priority was to ensure the safety of those who worked in the office and those that would be affected by the failure of the building. LeMessurier was willing to destroy his whole reputation to make sure no lives were lost, because at his core he believed himself to be a…

Task 2 Non-destructive testing is an analysis technique used to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage. Advantages Safety Non-destructive tests are designed to maximize both tester and tested product safety. Most of the test are conducted under strict settings to ensure the safety of the testers, and all tested products remain completely undamaged. Reliability Non-destructive testing comes out with accurate results because of the variety of available…

The fire service has many roles in the community and one of those roles is being a fire inspector. In this scenario, one is the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and a newly planned community if being built. It is the fire inspector duties to ensure that the water supply system is being installed correctly. One will discuss the type of hydrants to be installed, explain why one pick that particular hydrant, state how the hydrants will be tested, and provide spacing requirement…