MHR 505 Study Guide - Absenteeism, Telecommuting, Workplace Violence

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Strategic importance: sign of how employees are treated health and safety management determinants of employee perceptions regarded fair treatment, high amount of work related accidents people are starting to think they are inevitable. Laws intended to protect the health and safety of workers by minimizing work-related accidents and illnesses three categories: i) general health and safety rules ii) rules for specific industries: rules for specific hazards. Employers: due diligence: the responsibility to take reasonable precaution to ensure safety of their workers duties include: filing government accident reports, ensuring safety rules enforced, posting safety notices and legislative informnation. Committees provide an non-adversarial environment for managers and labour to work together and ensure health and safety in the work place committee of usually 2-12 members half must be workers. What causes accidents: chance occurrences beyond control, unsafe conditions. Improper ventilation: dysfunctional or defective equipment, no hazardous symbols placed on equipment, unsafe storage (over crowded, congestion_

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