Chapter 3 - Safety

What safety and health standards does OSHA provide that companies must follow?

Emergency Plan, Hazardous Chemicals, Workspace Layout, and Medical and First Aid

Employees are likely to comply with laws and guidelines when leaders show what?

High commitment to compliance. Leaders make a difference. When leaders emphasize the goals of the regulations it is good. Can also encourage compliance by measuring key results.

What did the Catholic Healthcare West do?

Implemented a program designed to reduce workers' compensation claims. Increased bottom-line profits.

What are employers required to carry?

Workers' compensation insurance

What does workers compensation programs require employees and employers to record?

Workplace accidents. Employers must file an injury report with a state agency within a certain amount of time.

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

federal law passed in 1970, requires employers to keep records about safety practices and incidents. Must keep track of illnesses and injuries and must conduct periodic inspections to ensure workplace safety. Employers must provide info and keep employees informed of protections and safety obligations.

Material safety data sheet

An OSHA required document that describes the nature of a hazardous chemical and methods of preventing and treating injuries related to the chemical

What does workers' compensation take the form of?

An insurance program

What is an example of the value of leadership that encourages compliance?

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW)

What does Occupational Safety and Health Administration do?

Enter & inspect factories, plants or other worksites. Issue citations to companies that are not in compliance with safety requirements.

Walking/working surfaces standard

OSHA requirement that an organization maintain a clean and orderly work environment. Provides guidelines for the proper use of ladders and scaffolding and requires covers and guards for potentially dangerous structures like pits, tanks, and ditches.

Medical and first aid standard

OSHA requirement that an organization make medical and first aid resources available to workers who may become injured

Emergency Action Plan Standard

OSHA requirement that organizations develop a plan for dealing with emergencies like fires or natural disasters

Hazard communication standard

OSHA requirement that organizations identify and label chemicals that might harm workers

What was created within the U.S. Dept. of Labor to help enforce OSHA?

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

What are the kinds of benefits on a workers' compensation insurance?

Payment of medical expenses for injured workers, disability benefits to replace income for injured workers unable to return to work, benefits for family members of workers killed on the job

Workers' compensation

State programs that provide workers and families with compensation for work-related accidents and injuries. Provides protection for employees who are injured or disabled while working.

What two major types of law provide employees with assurance of safety and protection on the job?

The Occupational Safety and Health Act & a group of laws at the state level "workers' compensation laws"