Public safety

There’s more than cost to consider when you hire an electrician. While reasonable prices should be a factor, it’s more important to hire an electrician who safely will repair any electrical problem in your home. Piedmont Electric Repair Co. Inc. in High Point, NC, has been providing high-quality services since 1936, so they have the expertise to take care of any electrical job. They suggest asking these five questions to find the most qualified local electrician: • Are You Licensed? Most…

Manual Handling What is Manual Handling? The Manual Handling Operations Regulations define the term manual handling as ‘any transporting of load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or by bodily force.’ To put this simply manual handling is any action that requires an individual to move or lift a load of some kind. Potential Issues of Manual Handling And Injuries Caused by Manual Handling? Over a third of all the reportable injuries that…

Companies are responsible for the safety of workers while on duty. When violence occurs against employees or amongst coworkers companies can be held liable for failing to prevent the incident. Workers’ compensation addresses on-the-job injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 establishes federal regulations for employee safety protections (Mathis, 2014). I visited the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s webpage on Violent Crimes. After reviewing their Workplace Violence…

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 going immediately and your compensation coming in a timely manner. Like with any public program workers compensation, while it is a benefit to the worker, because of its size and complexity, collecting the workers compensation benefit due you can be a confusing and sometimes frustrating experience. Further, dealing with insurance…

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…

Staying Alive in the Hazmat Industry When you operate a business in the hazmat industry, compliance to regulations is essential. The failure to adhere to industry rules could lead to the demise of a business – so you’ll need to remain on top of the guidelines that regulate hazmat companies. The following points may be used as a general outline of information you’ll need to know to stay alive in the hazmat industry. DOT Training for Your Business Department of Transportation (DOT) training is…

OSHA stands for Occupational Safety and Health Administration which sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards. OSHA provides information, training and assistance to workers.”Under the General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act ( OSHA) of 1970, employers are required to provide their employees with a place of employment that "is free from recognizable hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to employees." The…

Safety in the Electrical Field In today’s world, every job pursued comes with a certain level of risk. Whether it be a financial risk or risk of a physical injury, one must be prepared to face anything. Electricians are at an extremely high risk of causing physical harm to themselves while on the job. As the number of electricians who enter the work force continues to rise each year, the risk of on-the-job injuries doubles. Some of the most common, yet dangerous risks electricians face every day…

Health, Food and Globalization If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases? I feel like in the world we live in today it is nearly impossible to reduce the flow of people coming and going. Globalization has introduced the migration of people and it has taken on an immense effect all over the world. Unless things change…

The resources that street-level bureaucrats have to work are very inadequate. Yet, the demand from the public, or clients, is always increasing. As a result, street-level bureaucrats are constraints to the resources. Street-level bureaucrats also have broad discretion and that’s because of the constraints they are force upon. The resources that they have to work with also make the goals of street-level bureaucrats ambiguous and conflicting. Yet, street-level bureaucrats try to do their best,…