HRM 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corporate Social Responsibility, Byssinosis, Factory Acts
22 Sep 2016
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History- starts off with illness from mining (lead gold, silver, copper, iron, mercury) Industrial revolution brought exposure to oils w/ bad hygiene brought serious skin disease & acne. Brown lung= (byssinosis)dust from hemp and flax. 20th century laws passed to regulate heating, lighting, ventilation, hygiene, fire safety, Legislation- early 1800s = factories acts (child labour laws) 1884, ontario factories act (first in canada) 1978 ontario occupational health & safety act . 8 years after osha in the usa. Royal commission on h&s in mines known as ham commission (1976) Participate in identifying and correcting h&s problems. Assumption of risk-worker accepts a job, they also accept the risks associated with job. Employers had no to little responsibility for their workers h&s; No compensation for workplace accident(workers carelessness) unless solely their fault. Accident proneness- some workers likely to get into accidents than others that"s why they make up a small portion of the workforce; employer at no fault.
