Reference no: EM133477313
1. Answer the following questions:
1. Why do you think society is usually more concerned about work-related injuries than work-related illnesses? Explain.
2. What kind of charges are usually placed on organizations when health and safety violations occur? Are the various charges against organizations who violate health and safety laws effective? Defend your position.
3. Google an example from the news about an organization that had a workplace incident due to unsafe work. Identify and explain the main stakeholders involved, and their role in the situation(especially identifying the duties of the employer that failed to provide a safe work environment). Source your example.
4. Think of an example in a place you worked (alternatively you can google an example) where there was a situation in which a worker could reasonably refuse to work. Provide details and justify legally why the worker could refuse to work (refer to course concepts).
2. Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:
Delores has been working full-time at the checkout counter at the grocery store for 10 years. Her job is to manually key in the prices of products on a cash register as the store does not have UPC scanning equipment. She uses her right hand to key in prices, and her left hand to move groceries along the counter. A few months ago, she started having pains in her right hand and wrist after work, and eventually the pain escalated to the point that it would last into the night, and not go away at all. As a single mother, she is responsible for all the home duties for her two children, and she has been unable to care for them properly with her hand pain, causing her sadness.
When she approached her employer, he told her to "suck it up," as it is a consequence of the job. After hearing this Delores has been up at night in pain, and worrying about losing her job as she feels she can no longer do it properly. She starts phoning in sick on the days when her hand is really painful.
1. What is a main risk factor associated with this job? Why?
2. What 1 type of potential injury are we talking about here? Explain your response.
3. Identify and explain the main hazard in this case.
4. What stressors/stress/strains is evident? Why?
5. Explain 1 way that the employer can and should do to control/prevent these hazards.