BUS 381 Chapter 14: Occupational Health and Safety

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21 Oct 2011

School

Simon Fraser University

Department

Business Administration

Course

BUS 381

Professor

Rick Iverson

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Strategic importance of occupational health and safety: customer/client service depends on how employees are treated, work-related accident figures are staggering, and cost more than billion per year. Basic facts about occupational health and safety legislation: occupational health and safety legislation intended to protect the health and safety of workers by minimizing work-related accidents and illnesses. Purpose: 3 categories: general health and safety rules, rules for specific industries, and rules for specific hazards. Occupational health and safety and other legislation: overlap between health and safety, human rights, labour relations, and employment standards laws. Chance occurrences: more or less beyond control. Unsafe acts: eg. throwing materials, operating machines at unsafe speeds, inactivating safety devices, using unsafe equipment or procedures, lifting improperly, horseplay, can undermine attempts to minimize unsafe conditions, personal characteristics > behaviour tendencies > specific behaviours > Accident: vision: drivers with high visual skills have fewer injuries, age: most frequent between 17-28.

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Which of the following statements is true of business ethics?

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Case Study - 5

Breaking The Bargaining Pattern

Gilson steel is a local fabricating and supply firm. Situated in open country, far from the large steel making centers. The firm has been in business many years. About the third of employees have worked in the organization for more than ten years. Top management would like to get away from the current practice in which negotiations on wage matters and fringes follow the pattern. The firm’s president feels that industry – wide bargaining tends to divorce employees from the firm. He thinks they feel that their employer is a combination of U.S steel and bethlem steel instead of Gilson. He argues that the local firm which has prospered can do better by employees than is possible in national pattern. He says that the local conditions should be considered. His basic objection to current practice, however, is his conviction that it tends to divorce its employees from local employer. The labor relations manager has been urged to try negotiating terms at variance with the national pattern.

Answer the following questions: ·

What theory and policy do you read into the president’s suggestion? ·
How will his ideas fit into the existing pattern of public union policy? ·
Can you suggest a promising innovative approach?

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