HRM 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Household-Responsibility System, Profit Margin, Personal Protective Equipment
3 May 2017
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Changing perspective- risk and liability: from assumption of risk and accident proneness (the early perspectives) to shared responsibility of the workplace parties. Enterprise community involvement: enterprises exist in communities, affect and are affected by those communities. It includes activities, expertise and resources provided to the immediate local environment, but also the broader global environment: corporate social responsibility. If the worker performs his or her task outdoors or in vehicle, then that location is the physical work environment. Business case for h&s: legal, economic, moral. Legal: compliance with the law, occupational health and safety act and regs, not being aware of legal requirements is not a defense for non-compliance, minimum standards for business operations. Types of controls: engineering, policies and procedures, administrative (training), personal protective equipment (ppe) In may 2011, the farm operators pleaded guilty to 10 of the 29 charges laid in connection with the incident. Key stakeholders of ohs: employer, supervisor, employee/worker.
