The topic I chose is Safety and Health in the Workplace. I chose this topic because the working people need to be safe where they work and when they are safe they are healthy. They are able to make money to support their family or loved ones with ease. If their workplace is not safe they could end up using the money they make to pay their medical bills or they could be fired. The people who work around the world are already large in number and continuously increasing. While there are a number of those workers who die from injuries at work or contract a disease from a fellow worker and spread it farther than it should have spread. Although there has been a decline in work related injuries and deaths there are still people who are dying from …show more content…
Women get more health benefits when they are working like health insurance and prenatal education but will not receive such benefits when they are not working. Workers who live in under privileged countries have higher amounts of work related deaths than workers who live in affluent countries. Those who work in heavy industries like construction or logging have higher fatality rates. Those working in agricultural jobs such as farming are at risk of injuries and more including skin diseases and respiratory diseases. Farming machinery such as tractors rolling over is also a contributor to farm fatalities. Unintentional injuries are not the only source of work injuries or fatalities. Violence is another source leading to injury or death in a workplace. Working at night, with or around money or alone can increase the risk of workplace violence. Diseases and illnesses are also a problem to workers specifically workers in certain occupations like mining, glass manufacturing and asbestos workers. With all of these dangers of working the need for safety and health professionals and prevention programs vastly
In Australia, occupational exposures to environmental hazards are related to a wide extent of work related injuries such as stains, burning and open wounds. Based on the key work health and safety statistics in Australia, there were 128050 workers that report to claim for the compensations of work-related injuries or disorders from 2011 to 2012 and those most common occupational injuries often cause by body stressing, falls, heat and some chemical substance (Safe Work Australia, 2014). Also, according to the survey of National Hazard Exposure Worker Surveillance in Australian workplace, there were 228 worker fatality due to occupational injuries between 2011 and 2012 even though the final result of workers injury claims and fatalities are still decrease in comparisons to the record of 2010-11, but the injury incidence are not yet achieved the target rate which contribute by the Australian work health and safety
The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN’s) goal is to prepare future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that are needed to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. QSEN focuses on six main competencies; patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. As we have learned in earlier classes these competencies and their KSAs offer a base to help us and other nurses as we continue our education and become RNs. As we will learn in this class these KSAs go hand in hand with health assessment.
This assignment will focus on one of the extremely important topics of the many hazards in the healthcare work place that may pose as a threat to my health and safety in the Care Industry.
This industry has had the highest injury rate of any industry from accidents caused by machinery; Workers can be seriously injured by moving animals also suffer from crippling arm, hand, and wrist injuries. Back injuries can result from loading and unloading meat from trucks and from moving meat, meat racks, or meat trees along overhead rails. Workers can be severely burned by cleaning solvents and burned by heat sealant machines when they wrap meat. Many workers can also injure themselves by falling on treacherously slippery floors and can be exposed to extremes of heat and cold. Has caused workers many health effects with injuries many layoff due to safety
Working on a farm or in a factory has both similarities and differences, but moving from a rural to a city job could be quite difficult. Farm and factory jobs are similar because they are dangerous and require intense physical labor. Both the farm and factory jobs have daily hazards. In 2009, farming continues to be the most dangerous job in the United States, due to the constant risk of animal stampedes or agricultural machinery accidents. In factories, like Grede Foundries, ear and eye protection against deafening crashes and flying sparks is required, as well as having all skin covered to prevent from hot metal burns. However, the most noticeable similarity is the amount of physical labor needed in both Wauwatosa and Elkhorn workplaces to produce the goods sold. One example of this in history is five year old Salvin from Brown’s Mills, New Jersey. In 1910, this young boy labored in the fields, becoming weak from lugging two pecks of cranberries at a time in extreme heat. Similar physical labor is demanded of factory workers in United States history, causing numerous health problem...
With fast food quickly integrating itself into American diets, more and more meatpacking factories emerge to satisfy the supply. The regular jobs in these factories are already very dangerous, involving sharp tools, heavy animals, and unsanitary working conditions. The factory workers are at risk of lacerations, amputations, skin diseases, muscle and nerve damage, and death (Compa). Annually, more than a fourth of slaughterhouse workers, around forty thousand people, suffer from work-related injuries or diseases that require treatment beyond first aid. These statistics are most likely an understatement, because many injuries go unreported (Schlossner).
Violence in the workplace has intensified from idle threats to homicides and the majority of assailants are reportedly domestic partners, strangers, customers or clients and employees. "Homicide was the third leading cause of occupational death from 1980 to 1985, accounting for 13 percent of all workplace deaths" (2) http://www.nsi.org/Tips/workdeth.txt. More recent data indicates that the statistics and fear is increasing and the level of safety is decreasing. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), reports "nearly 7000 workers were victims of homicide in the workplace during the period of 1980 to 1989...
It is the year 2015. Technology immerses us into a pit of pleasure, ease and luxury. We are enlightened by fancy Smartphones, fast computers, and simple online shopping. At this point, the human race is striving to create or destroy anything that is willing to harm us. We are at war against ourselves and we are not taking enough action against the fatal occurrences that happen everyday. We collect data to show the safeties and dangers of activities that we participate in every day, but we continue to emerge ourselves deeper and deeper into the statistic that automobile accidents are. Keeping all road-users aware of statistics, laws, and the dangers of speeding is the key factor in preventing the 2.35 million injuries and 40 thousand deaths
a. In the state of TN, are nurses mandated to report unsafe, illegal, or unethical practices of nursing colleagues or physicians? (Should be in Nurse Practice Act)
We all have duties under the health and safety at work etc 1974 and we
My chosen topic is minimum wages increasing in the United States. This topic came from the idea from the news. It was brought up in the discussion. This topic was interesting because I work at a retail store in New Jersey. The wages in New Jersey are seven dollars and twenty five cents. In 2014 it will be a dollar up so it is going to be tough because prices will rise. This topic affects me because now I worked as a minimum wage worker so I get pay by an hour. If the wages rise then something will decrease and increase.
The topic I chose is Air Pollution. New York City is greatly affected by air pollution since it is such a major environmental threat. This environmental threat contributes to approximately six percent of annual deaths and some studies even show air pollution to be a cause of strokes. Although it is difficult to improve the quality of New York’s air due to the air pollutants that come from millions of sources, it is important that this problem stays under control for the health of the people. Found in the Administrative Code of the City of New York, are the detailed collection of the codified local laws of New York City. This code organizes
The most common workplaces for younger workers are fast food restaurants, grocery stores, offices, and gas stations. Hazards that are most common in fast food restaurants include hot grills, fire, cooking grease, heavy lifting, cleaning chemicals, stress, steam, hot ovens, knives, slippery floors, and a pressure to work fast. Most common hazards in a grocery store include heavy lifting, meat slicers, repetitive motion, long periods of standing, box cutters, cleaning chemicals, bending, reaching, and stress. Most common hazards in an office include repetitive use of a keyboard, awkward posture, stress, cluttered workplace, copier, and other chemicals. Lastly, common hazards at a gas station include gasoline, heat, cold, stress, chemicals, tools and equipment, and an exposure to violence. These are only hazards among the most common workplaces young workers work in but other workplace industries could be manufacturing, construction, transportation, and
Canadian health and safety legislation require companies and organizations to make a commitment towards occupational health and safety. Maintaining a safe workplace environment has numerous benefits. A safe work environment can boost employee morale, increase productivity and improve job satisfaction. For companies and organizations these benefits can lead to less turnover and increased employee retention. They can also reduce absenteeism while improving the culture and image of a company or organization. Most importantly, increased safety in the workplace can lead to fewer workplace injuries and causalities. Workplace health and safety issues are different today than there were at various points of time in Canadian history.
Patient safety is a crucial component within the nursing discipline and is of utmost importance in health care. According to Kirwan, Matthews and Scott’s quantitative nursing research article, The impact of the work environment of nurses on patient safety outcomes: A multi-level modelling approach, published in 2013 in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, contributing factors that may have an impact on patient safety may include the nurse’s work environment as well as the nurse’s education level (Kirwan, Matthews, Scott, 2013). This article has relevance in the nursing discipline across health care settings and is important to this writer’s nursing practice to reinforce the importance of the work environment and nursing