what is safety in work?
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What is safety? Safety is the situation of being safe, meaning that  you are not being harmed in anyway whatsoever. Simply speaking, it means you're not being threatened by an outside force that causes harm or unpleasant feelings to a person.\n\nWhen it comes to work, safety is essential. Safety in work means that when it comes to work, you're sure that you or your group is physically untouched by harm, or that your group have a stable foundation to initiate the work without trouble or that the relations among group members are not a dangerously chaotic one.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines; Issuance of Voluntary Guidelines; Notice. Federal Register Vol. 54, No. 16, Jan. 26, 1989, pp. 3904-3916. \n\nThis federal register notice publishes voluntary guidelines that outline what OSHA believes to represent the contents and framework for safety and health program excellence. The guidelines stem from OSHA's experience in evaluating worksites through its state run consultation projects and Voluntary Protection Program. The guidelines outline a management system to identify and control hazards on a proactive basis using four major program elements, management leadership and employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, and safety and health training. \n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nOccupational Safety and Health Administration,  Managing Worker Safety and Health. Office of Cooperative Programs, in press. \n\nA manual designed to explain OSHA's Voluntary Safety and Health Guidelines, what they mean and how to implement each of the program elements into a program appropriate for any size worksite. \n\n-----------------------------------------------------\n\nLaBar, G., Making Safety Pay. Occup. Hazards. June 1994, pp 33-36. \n\nThe author reports on interviews held with safety managers from a variety of different American corporations on how they measure their impact, cost savings, and what the major motivators are for upper management. All interviewed discuss from their perspective how safety pays dividends to the companies bottom line, both in terms of direct and indirect costs. \n\n------------------------------------------------\n\nCurtis, S.L., Safety and Total Quality Management. Professional Safety. Jan. 1995, pp.18-20. \n\nFor years progressive companies have used TQM principals to increase workforce productivity and product quality control while reducing production costs. The author explains how TQM principals also apply to safety and loss control. He uses several examples to illustrate that accidents are unwanted variations and through the use of employee involvement, the root cause to the problems can be identified and corrected. Based on the employee involvement realistic solutions are found while giving employees ownership into the solutions. \n\n-------------------------------------------------\n\nSommerkamp, J., The Deming Approach to Construction Safety Management. Professional Safety. Dec. 1994, pp. 35-37. \n\nThe author reviews some of Dr. Demings principals and illustrates their applicability to construction safety management. Specifically he illustrates system thinking, moving toward quality, the concept of variation, the theory of knowledge and, psychology. \n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nMcClay, C.J., Achieving Breakthroughs in Safety Via Employee Empowerment. Professional Safety. Dec. 1995, pp. 44-47. \n\nThe author explains how traditional safety has not worked very well and that it is time for change. Through empowering employees to get involved in identifying and controlling hazards, a manager can best utilize the resources available while getting employees, the group who has the greatest to gain from safety actively involved in changing the workplace and the organizations culture. Several success stories are provided to illustrate approaches that can be implemented. \n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nZahlis, D.F., Caution Beware of OSHA Statistics. Professional Safety. Dec. 1995, pp. 41-43. \n\nThe author examines the misuse of injury rates/statistics and incentives. Many companies spend a great deal of manpower managing injury rates rather than root cause prevention. They frequently tie incentives and rewards around the nonoccurrence of accidents. This only promotes an environment not to report incidents. By managing unsafe behaviors, near-misses, minor incidents, etc., a proactive approach can be taken
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Safe working conditions are required in every state. Check the government section of the phone book for your state office to find the specifics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSS
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New innovations in health and safety management are required to further reduce injuries and fatalities in the Australian construction industry. Current approaches to safety management emphasise hazard identification and reduction, but fail to fully account for a worker’s motivation to behave safely. In order to understand and improve safety motivation, many researchers and practitioners are utilising the construct of safety culture. Unfortunately, the transitory nature of work within the industry frequently hinders an organisation’s attempts to develop and maintain a good safety culture. Hence, a framework is needed to facilitate the formation of a good safety culture across the construction industry as a whole. A methodology is advanced as to how culture change can be facilitated by using a system of competencies developed and applied to the key safety roles within the industry. This set of nationally standardised and accepted competencies would specifically state what is required by those who have safety critical roles, to positively influence construction site safety culture. By encouraging organisations to integrate these competencies into their existing HRM processes such as selection, training and performance management, it should be possible to (1) educate the industry as to best practice in safety culture management, (2) provide a safety culture management system that allows a good safety culture to be built quickly on new projects, (3) ensure a standard level of competency within the workforce to allow for ease of movement of workers between sites and contractors, and (4) improve safety culture and in turn potentially improve safety on-site.
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Safety is all about awareness. When people are aware of their surroundings they are much more safe because they can avoid problems more easily.
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you must consider loads here as you'll have customers on the premises...\nfire safety, fire exits, extinguishers, fire alarms, smoke alarms etc\nhealth & safety risk assessment, electrical equipment serviced/checked regularly, trailing wires, safe equipment ie beds\nalso to consider is COSHH risk assessment for the chemical substances you'll be using, ie massage creams and products, and cleaning products\npossible manual handling risk, plus first aid is important\nnot to forget health and safety of staff, for example; working alone, or using equipment.\nThe following sites may help you...
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The code gives what you can do or cant do. How simple comments and attitudes can be looked down upon. How you can make your work place a better place to be. And will be the ultimate safety for the innocent girl
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You could talk about ladder safety. I used it as an example in a letter to the editor that I wrote recently and it got published. Good luck.
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You should look into the ethics standards section(s) of the Joint Commission agency, this agency regulates almost every aspect of a health care facility and there practices. Also you can get OSHA involved, this agency also deals with the health care but only in the "safety"  aspect. I have learned that the word safety also implies not only to hazardous materials and situations but to safety in the "work environment" in that a coworker can conduct themselves in a threatening way (as to) and there by creating an unsafe working environment. This is not a word play, it is a fact. you should look into this.
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What you just said would be good enough reason. If there are unsafe work condition, then that gives the potential for people to get hurt. That is a lawsuit waiting to happen. How bad are the work conditions? If I were I would take it up with the Better Business Bureau if it is serious enough..but if you have already quit, I don't understand why you need another reason?
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Even though I know zilch about working yet, except some home ec. A big essential is about the hazards, are you sure you know the hazards about working as a bowzer? Some dangerous things are night shifts because petrol stations are a target to robbers and vandalists. There just some of the major essentials. \nI hoped this helped you.\nKind Regards, Timothy H. (Age 12, W.A)
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US Dept of Health and Human Services has a nice page on it...\nhttp://www.dhhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/safety.html\nThe Institute for Safe Medication Practices...\nhttp://www.ismp.org/\nA piece on medication errors for Nurses...\nhttp://www.nursingclasses.com/ceu-for-nurses-on-preventing-medication-errors.html
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/safety/pdf/bltn188.pdf#search='ergonomics%20in%20garment%20industry'\n\nThey are two pages, but very iformative.
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According to the national Bureau of Labor Statistics, meat packing is the most dangerous occupation in the US when you consider how often workers are injured.  You may want to take a look at this article before taking this job:\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/07/meatpacking.html
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hazard- toxic things are generally hazards and should be avoided.
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simply put, to ensure that everything is working the way it should.  you wanna make sure nothing hazardous is going on in your body
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Material Safety Data Sheets are required by local, city, county, state and the federal government so that employees can learn if they are using dangerous materials.\n\nThe company must tell the employees if they are using dangerous chemicals or products.\n\nAny contractor working at your home also has to provide you with this information.\n\nAnd if you are working with chemicals at home, it is required that the company that sells you the product have the information available. For instance if you buy a wallpaper remover chemical at a paint store, you can ask for the safety sheet when you buy it.\n\nIf you have a business in your home, you may be required to keep safety sheets on file, even if you are the only employee.\n\nIf you are an artist working with dangerous chemicals, you may need a permit from a local or other government agency, and you will be required to show these documents.\n\nBest wishes.