Introduction In June of 2011 Mr. Schmidt an employee of an unknown manufacturing company was injured on the job while working with a large piece of wood and table saw in the production shop. Mr. Schmidt claims that he followed all safety procedures, even though another employee saw Mr. Schmidt laughing, joking, and goofing around right before the incident. After interviewing multiple employees’s, claims were made that the equipment was not safe because the safety guard did not work well, reports were made to the foreman Mr. Hiller, who was in charge of inspecting the equipment. Mr. Hiller, claims that all proper inspections were conducted on the equipment, and the table saw was in good working condition. This critical thinking study will hopefully determine who is at fault in this case. Was it the employee who was seen playing around before the incident; The manufacture of the equipment for having a faulty safety guard; or the company for continuing to use defective equipment, or having faulty employee safety practices. Explanation of the issue or problem: Problem: Who is at Fault? After reviewing the case study there are a lot of factors that need to be considered before deciding who’s fault. Questions such as: When was the last time the equipment was inspected; What are the company’s safety procedures for this type of equipment; Are there any previous injuries or lawsuits against the manufacturer of the equipment or the company? A health and safety report revealed that
It’s important that health and safety procedures are followed when using different types of equipment. The main focus is to keep a safe and hazardless environment for you and the people around you.
The second accident at the "Timken Steel Faircrest plant" company which a is an employee fall down more than 40 feet which led to several broken bones because of just a small mistake. The problem is when he made a maintenance on a crane he wasn't ware Certified safety harness which it could safe his live from the risk. I used to do a maintenance on more than one cran and my company doesn't allow me to go without waring a Certified safety harness because they have to keep all the employees a way from all the risk and even if they didn't told me to ware it, I will not go up to the cran without it, do the fact that no one knows what will happen and even if I am good at this job, I have to work safely. I agree that this company should teach all
From this incident was any employee disciplined for not following safety procedures. This would establish if the company believes the employees were negligent in their duty.
The safety audit will be performed at a Walmart location in Orangeville, Ontario. It is the biggest retail store worldwide with $482.1 billion in revenue and has 2.3 million associates. As I have worked there for the summer holding an instock position in the back room unloading trucks, I have gained knowledge and understanding on the safety issues and standards that exist within the company.
In addition, Williams violated 29 C.F.R. § 1926.651(k) (1) for failing to designate a “competent person” with sufficient training and knowledge to identify and correct existing and predictable hazards (www.dol.gov). No supervisor at the Company was familiar with the basic standards applicable to the worksite or otherwise “capable of identifying and correcting existing and predictable hazards in their surroundings.” The court disagreed that the Company discharged its OSHA duties merely by relying on the general work experience of Dzamba and J.P. Williams or “common sense.”
The human resources process has to accompany both the employee and employer in regard to safety issues. An employee wants the assurance of safe and healthy working conditions; anything less exposes danger to their own wellbeing. In addition employees must take heed to precautions design by the organization. However an employer wants to avoid expenditures in overhead by cutting cost or corners often putting their employees at harmful risk. In addition, organizations also have a lawful obligation in which they have to provide a safe workplace by preventing accidents, hazards, serious injuries or accident-related deaths. Negligence on either behalf can result in determination, fines, citations, work-related
Lowe’s debates the issue that there is a problem with their recordkeeping by maintaining adequate reports and documenting employee injuries and illnesses. OSHA believes that there is a critical issue and Lowe’s continually fails to document viable information and report employee injuries. After several inspections throughout the Ohio area and over a one year span OSHA has found significant problems and violations, and cited Lowe’s thousands of dollars in fines. To take corrective action, Lowe’s must hire a consultant to review medical records from 2008 to 2010 to determine if the claims are to be legally reported to OSHA, they have until 2013 to complete the in-depth review(Nolan, 2011).
Throughout history, there has been a multitude of events that have helped shape the Occupational Safety and Health doctrines that we have today. Some events have had small impacts, and others have totally reshaped how an entire industry operates. Although there are many incidents that we can talk about, we are going to focus on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Within this subject, we will talk about the specific events that happened, what safety standards existed and what standards were penned because of the incident, and how the existing safety standards keep a similar tragedy from happening in the current era. With all of this information, we will have a better picture of how the world of Occupational Safety and Health evolves throughout
As a result of the failure to adhere to the safety precautions before utilizing the automated external defibrillator the patient was severely burned on his neck and shoulders. “The patient can show a legally sufficient relationship between the breach of duty and the injury; this concept is referred to as proximate causation” (). If standards of care had been meet the injury that the patient now suffers could have been prevented.
This case study analyzes the experiences of Courtland Kelley at General Motors (GM). Courtland Kelley a third generation GM worker put his job on the line by pushing the GM managers and executives to fully respond to the safety issues found while working as a safety inspector at the company. Kelley along with his supervisor Bill McAleer first discovered the issues while auditing GM cars at rail yards across the country, a spot check of vehicles before the cars were cleared to be delivered to the dealers. McAleer was taken off the audit as a result, who subsequently sued the company seeking whistle-blower protection. The case was eventually dismissed by a judge in favor of GM. The judgement only increased Kelley’s
According to the Bureau of Labor, statistics indicate that more than 4.1 million people were hurt or injured on-the-job in 2006 and 5,488 were killed in 2007 (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010, p. 511). Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). This paper discusses the effects of legal, safety and regulatory requirements in
Throughout this paper you will get a brief summary over Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act. Through professional experiences I have ran into many violations regarding unsafe work environments, retaliation, and not receiving the correct pay. Title VII, as well as OSHA prohibits retaliation against any employee, who has filed a complaint. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 gives employees the chance to file a complaint of unfair pay, in hopes to receive their lost wages. As one may recognize these violations come with many ethical issues such as, not putting employee’s safety first, not paying employees, and leading people to find the company as being untrustworthy.
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Autotech company is an automotive manufacturing and supply company. It has started its business as a family business. Nowadays it is one of the fast growing automotive companies. Currently it is facing complex operation of its business as it keeps all records such as billing, inventory, personnel, customers, products, stock, financial etc. in hard copy format such as files, note, books etc. It is very tough to maintain files, papers, notes manually for an extensive time, which is time consuming, costly as well not accurate as paper work is required more time and their maintenance cost is more than soft copy storage and maintenance. As per my point of view, Autotech needs to develop Information Systems in its business to make easy and
A detailed engineering analysis of the incident at Behr Iron & Steel shows that the management were engaging in sharp practices that endangered the life of their