Occupational therapist

Papers. Midterms. Finals. The number of stressors present in a modern college setting is endless, with the actual causes being unique to every individual. One of the biggest challenges for students, therefore, is finding a way to manage everyday stress in order to make their time in the school more fulfilling and to care for their own personal mental and physical health. That can manifest itself in sports, music, and even leisure reading. I found my own way of handling stress through yoga,…

from the health and community services union (HACSU) visited the workplace to conduct a health hazard evaluation (HHE). HACSU received a confidential request from HSR 's to investigate workplace health hazards . Hazardous manual handling, occupational violence and more importantly job stress were identified as major areas of concerns. The purpose of the health hazard evaluation was to: determine the main hazardous tasks that cause workplace injuries for DDSO, determine the level of…

Sweatshops are business establishments where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages; sometimes employees are underage and work 60-100 hours per week. Sweatshops are a major part of people’s lives who work in third world countries. Overlooking age requirements, work conditions, and correct compensation that we find acceptable, people who live and work there do not think sweatshops are wrong; for people in developing countries, sweatshops are their best way of surviving.…

INTRODUCTION The workplace conditions and safety climate related-programmes, especially in emerging industrial countries, are remained poorly neglected (Bosak, Coetsee, & Cullinane, 2013). For instance, Indonesia as an emerging country has three major issues regarding psychological safety, labour market security and quality of the working environment issues such as poorly paid salary and wages, long working hours, accidents, etc. (OECD, 2014). In fact, Jamsostek (2013) reports that work…

organization. In this paper, we are trying to analyse whether mere complying with WHS legislation is enough to improve safety performance or not (Brun et al.,2007). Definition of workplace health and safety World health organization (WHO) has defined occupational health where it deals with all the elements of safety and health in the work place and majorly focuses on how to prevent employees from hazards. It also aims to prevent workers from leaving an organization due to harsh working…

Some of the things we could practice are for example, taking deep breaths, stand back and evaluate the situation, and lastly with a calm and sensible train of thought, figure out how to solve the problem. Everyone has a different approach as to how to tackle stress. I know people whom use stress balls. It’s a squishy, yet somewhat firm ball that you place in the palm of your hand and squeeze. This helps to relieve stress and the tension that accompanies it. Another stress relief technique…

On December 29, 1970 Richard Nixon signed into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act. This act was designed to ensure workers were working in conditions that were safe and not harmful to the employees’ health. Since the creation of OSHA workplace injuries and deaths has been reduced by 66%. This is an incredible increase if you consider that means 66% more workers get to go home to their families at the end of the day. In 2014 4,679 workers were killed on the job, that is about 13 workers…

The Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle is the bedrock of the EPCOR HMS. I set out a plan to spend 30 minutes each day to study the EPCOR OHSMS and to see how this system applied to the integrated management sytem. By studying the various components of the EPCOR integrated management sytem, I was able to understand hoiw the HSE corporate services provides structure to operational groups including the HSE management system. I was also able to understand how the check part of the OHSMS was necessary to…

even though there has been improvement in workplace safety, there is still a significant amount of accidents resulting in injuries and fatalities in the industry that could have been prevented. According to the United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (n.d.), statistics show construction site falls as the leading cause of death and fall protection as the most cited violation in the industry. The top four causes of construction related deaths were…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) offers guidelines for analyzing job hazard. Industry-related accidents affect the economy and the reputation of a company as well. The organizations must impose and strictly practice a stringent code for…