An Investigation At The Occupational Health And Safety Legislation

Have you ever think about people for unsafe work? Each in everyday, hours and minutes, as we step forward into a factory, mills or machineries, significant people are put into danger. Although health and safety in a workplace is necessary for the employers and employees, there are still a lot of injuries and deaths in a workplace. Most people we’re being forced to work even if the job is not safe for them to do so. There are people getting injured and killed every day that’s why we need to put a stop to it now and make the job in a workplace comfortable to everybody.

Canada’s roads and parking lots are some of the busiest in the world. They also make up for some of the most unsafe work areas. In terms of overall occupational safety, current national figures show casualties and injuries are at their highest level. A good number of these safety problems are caused by workers being struck by oncoming vehicles, or them being injured by machinery and equipment or failure by the professionals to put on protective gear while at the work

In the year 2010 there were 4,547 fatalities while on the job, this comes out to be around 87 deaths a week or 12 deaths a day. This is a decline from 4,551 fatalities in 2009 (Department of Labor). Hilda Solis the Secretary of Labor puts these statistics into a clearer focus “Every day in America, 12 people go to work and never come home. Every year in America, 3.3 million people suffer a workplace injury from which they may never recover. These are preventable tragedies that disable our workers, devastate our families, and damage our economy.” (Solis)

During my investigation, I will look at how changing legislation is affecting the fatality rates in the construction industry in Wales and Tripura. I will do this by comparing the legislation between these two places and by determining which area has the best legislation protecting their workforce. I will also look at which kind of accidents caused the fatalities.

On December 29, 1970 the Occupational and Health Act (OSH Act) was signed into law. This was to ensure that all Americans workers have safe and healthy working conditions. In order to achieve this goal the, Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created shortly after. The role of OSHA is to issue set standards and rules to help maintain safe workplace conditions. Another role of OHSA is to inspect workplaces to ensure companies are complying with the standards. (Schneid,2014)

The main reason for the work Health and safety act 2011 (WHS) is to provide a nationally constant scheme, by which to secure the health and wellbeing of workers. The WHS was created to protect workers and other persons from harm when in a working environment. It also serves to curtail working risk and enhance safety protocols. The WHS provides a framework for the continuous improvement of standards in worker health and safety. The main objectives of the WHS are to secure the health, safety and welfare of persons at work and to protect persons at a place of work against risks to health and

This act was ensured to help improve the health and safety in the workplace for the employer and employee. Employers must protect the 'health, safety and welfare' at work of all their employees, as well as others on their premises, including temps, casual workers, the self employed, clients, visitors and the general public.

Introduction: In this report I will the list the aspects of health and safety legislation and regulation that apply when working with fluid power equipment and systems. Working with fluids power equipment can be dangerous not only for nearby workers but for people around you and other equipment and buildings. I will be explaining why Safety will need to be applied whilst working with powered equipment.

Compliance with legislation: All WHS practises, policies and procedures have to apply with the 2011 Work Health and Safety act. This act is a nationwide law that needs to be followed by all employers and employees, as it allows employers to provide a safe work place as well as protecting employees from performing dangerous tasks that can result in injury and or death.

"The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 heralded a new era in the history of public efforts to protect workers from harm on the job. This Act established for the first time a nationwide, federal program to protect almost the entire work force from job-related death, injury and illness," (MacLaury). Occupational health and safety awareness pre-dates OSHA by decades, though, and it is important to place the administration within its historical context. The Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century proceeded like a locomotive, without any barrier or restriction. However, working conditions became increasingly dangerous. Social and political activism spawned the labor movements that led to early occupational safety regulations. As United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration states, the nation's first occupational safety regulations were passed in Massachusetts in 1877. Several states followed suit, paving the way for the United States Department of Labor to take federal action. Special investigator for the Department of Labor, Alice Hamilton, conducted some of the first forma surveys of factories and other industrial workplaces. These formative surveyed provided the methodological foundations upon which modern occupational safety research and practice are built. In 1934, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins created the Bureau of Labor Standards, to provide a list of regulations and codify them in law. The Bureau of Labor

This paper will outline the key health and safety issues for the given firm in the New Zealand construction industry at present. The construction industry in New Zealand has significantly

The work environment is a place where people spend a long time of their lives in. Every day people leave their homes, making their daily routine tasks and return to their homes. Does not matter where and how, people are always exposed to different risks that are often overlooked. In a common day, workers and customers are constantly exposed to various types of hazards that need to be observed, studied, and evaluated, taking into consideration the environment that they are, in order to find ways to anticipate possible damages and injuries to people that are exposed daily or sporadically in that environment (MacKenzie, 2014). This assignment will describe the risks encountered by the author in an observation, not communicated to those were observed, and also who are the most vulnerable people to the dangers founded, the intensity of the risks, its possible effects and recommendations for reduction the assessed risk. Risks that were most commonly observed are noise, falls, burns and scalds, cutting equipment, and psychosocial risks.

In the United States, construction has always been one of the most dangerous industries to work in. The number of fatalities that occur in this industry year after year demonstrate this. In 2012, 19.6% of worker fatalities, in private industry, were in construction (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013) despite the industry comprising only 6.8% of the total work force. This epidemic is not unique to the United States. Essentially every country faces similar problems regarding construction safety. For example, in 2004 the Australian construction industry employed approximately 8% of the countries workforce. However, workers compensation statistics indicated that the industry’s incidence rate was 28.6 per 1000 employees, nearly twice the overall industry average (Zou, Redman & Windon, 2008). Efforts to improve upon these dismal statistics have intensified in recent years in large part due to the escalation of successful liability suits and the effect the rising cost of workers compensation insurance has on a company’s ability to do business.

Breach of duty of care was the predominant factor of Omar 's injury. Employers should provide due care to its employees and this involves preventions of any foreseeable risks (Winder, 2009). Employers should provide a safe working environment and sufficient supervision and training when the workers are undertaking the tasks (Winder, 2009). In the case, the Last Venture Mine had been disused for six months and no one went into it for a long

These accidents can occur due to an explosion inside a mine, leakage of poisonous chemicals and gases, flooding of mines, or collapse of the mine roof, which can be attributed to malfunctioning equipment, lack of adequate safety training, or lack of supervision—all are responsibilities of the mine operator or employer. Refinery explosions tend to make front-page news, too, because of their link to high profile petrochemical industry and because of the massive devastation they can cause. They occur as a result of hazardous practices and conditions that increase the risk of an explosion, such as placing of atmospheric vents on pressure units, inability to manage hazardous gases in a controlled manner, and poor management of alarm systems. Construction has the largest number of fatal injuries of the main industry groups. In 2008/09p there were 53 fatal injuries giving at rate of 2.5 per 100 000 workers. Relative to other industries, a higher proportion of reported injuries were caused by falls from height, falling objects, contact with moving machinery, collapses/overturns and electricity. Moreover, workers may be inadequately trained in the prevention of accidents; emergency response systems may be inadequate at the plant. Exposure to chemicals in the workplace can be either through skin penetration, or inhalation of gases and vapors, such