...legal services, as well as recognized its responsibilities to the public, the legal community, and colleagues. Paralegals have recognized, and will continue to recognize, that the profession must continue to evolve to enhance their roles in the delivery of legal services. With increased levels of responsibility comes the need to define and enforce mandatory rules of professional conduct. Enforcement of codes of paralegal conduct is a logical and necessary step to enhance and ensure the confidence of the legal community and the public in the integrity and professional responsibility of paralegals. In April 1997 NFPA adopted the Model Disciplinary Rules ("Model Rules") to make possible the enforcement of the Canons and Ethical Considerations contained in the NFPA...
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...|[pic] | | | | | | | |[pic] | |How to make a cover letter | | | | | |[pic] | |How should a presentation letter be written? | |It is very important, before applying to any job, to remember that as you, there are many people with the same pretentions. This| |is why you have to find the way of making yourself...
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...of pathogenic particles through bodily fluids. Clinical Considerations for Transmission The most likely human substance carrying a pathogen or infection will be transmitted to an audiologist via cerumen. If clinicians conduct cerumen management or handle un-cleaned hearing aids without taking the proper precautions, they put themselves at risk for incidental exposure. Typically, cerumen is not considered a pathogenic agent unless it is fused with the mucus or blood of a contaminated patient. However, clinicians should always operate under the assumption of cerumen being infected, as the clinician cannot make a visual determination of the pathogenic status by just looking at the consistency and coloration of the substance. Another important consideration for a practitioner to be cognizant of is the status of the ear canal of a patient, particularly one who is a hearing aid user. The ear canal is extremely vulnerable to infection, as it provides an environment that can perpetuate growth of fungi or bacteria. The likelihood of infection is dramatically increased when a receiver or earmold is placed at the opening of the ear canal, closing off the majority of aeration that is normally provided. The presence of an infection can be transmitted to an audiologist from active drainage out of the ear, or from residue built up on a hearing aid that has been placed in an infected ear canal. It is...
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...The job that I am proposing the healthcare facility add is an administrative assistant to imaging schedulers. Currently the advanced imaging schedulers with in the children’s hospital are is in the midst of trying to prove that we need a support person. If approved this person would help with incoming calls, faxes, and other administrative duties. We are looking to fill the full-time roll of an advanced imaging administrative assistant to support the imaging scheduling staff at our facility. The department is responsible for scheduling imaging procedures for both inpatient and outpatient children who are lifetime patients. The position requires someone with an upbeat, compassionate personality and builds relationships easily as we mostly care for patients for the longevity of their life. Duties would include answering and triaging incoming calls, fax duty of incoming and outgoing, filing records and stocking supplies as needed. Applicant must have experience working in the healthcare field as well as be computer, phone, and fax savvy. Benefits include health and dental packages, vacation time and 401K. We are looking to fill the full-time roll of Advanced imaging administrative assistant to support the imaging scheduling staff at our facility. Requirements of the job are but not limited to the following duties. In a professional manner, answer the three incoming lines for the department in no more than five rings, during high call volume times the department has a backup...
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...OSHA 10 Safety Training OSHA SAFETY TRAINING FACT SHEETS -1- OSHA 10 Safety Training TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Electrical Fall Protection Struck-By Accidents Caught-Between Accidents PPE Scaffolds Cranes Power Tools Excavations Materials Handling Demolition Hazards Communication 3 6 10 12 14 15 18 21 24 26 28 32 36 -2- OSHA 10 Safety Training FACT SHEET: INTRODUCTION The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to send every worker home whole and healthy every day. Since the agency was established in 1971, workplace fatalities have been cut by 62 percent and occupational injury and illness rates have declined 40 percent. At the same time, U.S. employment has nearly doubled from 56 million workers at 3.5 million worksites to 115 million workers at nearly 7 million sites. OSHA can be reached by accessing www.osha.gov or calling 1-800-321-OSHA. OSHA encourages employers and employees to work together to: Reduce workplace hazards and implement or improve safety and health programs Develop and enforce mandatory job standards in the areas of occupational safety and health Maintain a reporting and recordkeeping system to monitor job-related illnesses and injuries Provide assistance, training and other support programs to help employees and workers. Since its implementation in 1971, OSHA has: Helped cut work-related fatalities nearly in half Helped reduce workplace injuries and illnesses by 40 percent Almost eliminated the...
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...Potential Hazards in Health and Social Care Settings While working at Langdale view a residential care home, I came across many potential hazards. A hazard is anything that can cause harm to an individual. Hazards affect all the people working in that care setting including, staff, visitors and individuals, there are a lot of hazards which can be found in and around every health and social care setting. Hazards: Hazards in the physical environment The physical environment is the surroundings around you, a potential hazard that can occur from the physical environment within a health and social care environment such as a residential care home, can be poor ventilation because it is important that the air in a room is breathable an does not cause any breathing problems or spread infections. This is a health hazard because it can cause a person to become ill due to airborne infections. To reduce this risk, the ventilation should be checked regularly and windows should be opened from time to time. Lighting in rooms of a residential care home is very important as poor lightning is a hazard especially for the elderly as some may have poor vision and if there is no emergency lightning there is a risk that an elderly resident will trip over something because they cannot see properly whereas if the lighting in the room is too bright, it can cause sight problems such as weak eyesight or watery eyes when in bright light. Hazards from equipment Hazards from equipment can include anything...
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...Is the U.S. Criminal Justice System a true system? William H. Watson IV University of Maryland University College Is the U.S. Criminal Justice System a true system? The criminal justice system in the United States (U.S.) is not a true system; or at least not a true functioning system. A true system is a fine tuned process, where all participants involved work towards a common goal. Every transition in a true system, is a smooth change, where no participants in the system will do anything to jeopardize the proper functionality of the next process in that system. This is not the case of the U.S. criminal justice system. The U.S. criminal justice system is comprised of numerous individuals, groups, organizations, and agencies funded by both government and non-government sources. Because, the U.S. criminal justice system is funded from different entities, there are several different agendas being carried out. There are three major components to the administration of the U.S. criminal justice system: the police, the courts, and corrections. In a perfect criminal justice system the police would arrest violators of the law, the courts would prosecute all law violators, and corrections would punish and rehabilitate violators, to integrate them back into society. While this is the formula the U.S. criminal justice system governs itself by, reality shows us that this quite often this is not the case. Only ten percent of court cases ever go to trial, with almost...
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...becomes more important than the quality of the investigation, the balance is wrong. And when quality assurance is more about complying with a set of rigid rules than achieving a successful outcome the balance is also wrong. The checks should not outweigh the balances. Recognition of the negative impact excessive bureaucracy creates has long been understood. Previous Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Sir David O'Dowd and Sir Ronnie Flanagan both made a series of recommendations aimed at reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and prepared costed business plans for change. The reports received considerable support across policing and government, a great deal of enthusiasm and energy was expended and some progress made, (procurement, call handling, remote access to information, ethical crime recording, alternatives to arrest, workforce mix, collaboration, partnerships). But improvements have not been fully implemented or embedded across all forces, they are not delivering the anticipated or potential benefits...
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...Ethics and Professional Responsibility Study Unit By Michael Wilson, Esq. Reviewed By Brian Bastyr, Esq. About the Author Michael Wilson is a freelance writer and college instructor who has had wide legal and educational experience. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Kentucky in 1976 and three years later received his law degree from the same school. He has been a partner in a law firm, a solo practitioner, and has done work in General and Family Mediation. He has also been a fulltime instructor in Paralegal Studies at Sullivan College, Lexington, KY, where he has taught such classes as Legal Research, Advanced Legal Writing and Appellate Practice, and Wills and Estates. He was given the “Teacher of the Year” award in 1997. Mr. Wilson has also had a number of papers published on legal topics in both scholarly and popular journals. About the Reviewer Brian Bastyr is a senior attorney editor for West Group, a legal publishing company. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law. He is currently a member of the Illinois bar, and has published a number of articles in legal journals. All terms mentioned in this text that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Use of a term in this text should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service...
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...1. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 1. Contract of Employment………………………………………….. 2. Working hours……………………………………………………. 3. Duty Station………………………………………………………. 4. Confidentiality……………………………………………………. 2. RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION POLICY 1. Introduction………………………………………………………. 2. Objectives………………………………………………………… 3. Recruitment Authorisation Procedure……………………………. 4. Newly Created or Restructured Positions 5. Employment Procedure…………………………………………… 6. Employment Interview Panel……………………………………... 7. Age………………………………………………………………... 8. Appointment………………………………………………………. 9. Personal Data……………………………………………………… 10. Staff Transfer……………………………………………………… 11. Induction………………………………………………………….. 3. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT POLICY 1. Introduction……………………………………………………….. 2. Objectives…………………………………………………………. 3. Responsibilities of Manager/Supervisors…………………………. 4. The Performance Management Process 3.4.1 Performance Planning ……………………………………… 3.4.2 Monitoring..………………………………………………….. 3.4.3 Performance Summary……………………………………… 3.4.4 Recognition………………………………………………….. 4. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY 4.1 Introduction………………………………………………………….. 4.2 Objectives…………………………………………………………… 4.3 Process and Criteria…………………………………………………. 5. LEAVE POLICY 6. DICIPLINARY CODE 1. Introduction………………………………………………………….. 2. Procedure and Documentation………………………………………. ...
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...allocation speaks to the process where it is decided when, what, who, and how resources are distributed. Many would say that politics is no more than the art of governing humanity through deception, and some would even go as far as to say it is nothing more than conducting public affairs for private gain. Government has numerous roles but four of the major areas are paramount. Manage the national economy. It is the responsibility of the government to place checks and balances within the system to make sure the economy remains viable. The government also has the responsibility to enforce laws and contracts. This could be as simple as managing disputes between private citizens (civil or criminal) or as major as the Supreme Court hearing arguments between the states. Another major area where government is involved are issues of public safety and infrastructure. The upkeep of roads and bridges, regulation of utilities and public services, and public health standard guidelines are roles of the government. One of the most obvious and expensive roles of the government is national defense. The Constitution speaks to the issue of raising an army and navy (doesn’t say exactly how) and it is the expectation of the people that the government will provide for them an adequate defense. 2. There are effectively five types of power, each varying in methodology and relative strength. Authority by far is the weakest type of power, though it tends to be the one people recognize...
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...LAW 443 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF LAW COURSE CODE: Law 443 COURSE TITLE: Administrative Law I 1 LAW 443 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I Course Code: Course Title: Course Developer/Writer: Administrative Law I Law 443 Simeon Igbinedion, LL.B., LL.M., B.L., PH.D., Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. Professor Animi Awah Ifidon Oyakhiromen, LL.B, LLM, M.Phil, Ph.D, BL Course Editor: AG. Dean,/Programme Leader: Course Coordinator: Mr. Ayodeji ige, LLM, BL 2 LAW 443 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I COURSE GUIDE CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ……………………………………………………………………….. 1 What You Will Learn in this Course …………………………………………….... 2 Course Aims ………………………………………………………………………. 3 Course Objectives ………………………………………………………………… 3 Study Units ……………………………………………………………………….. 3-4 Tutor-marked Assignment ……………………………………………………....... 4 References/Further Reading ……………………………………………...……. 4 3 LAW 443 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I Introduction Consider a situation where your residential property in which you have lived for decades has been demolished by the authorities of the FCT, or the Lagos State Ministry of Environment for allegedly being located in an industrial area. Suppose some customs officers at a checkpoint found you in possession of items which they claim to be contraband and, therefore, seized pursuant to the new Customs policy of zero-tolerance of goods likely to endanger the economic growth or contribute to the...
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...Scholarship Repository University of Minnesota Law School Articles Faculty Scholarship 1988 Discovery in Labor Arbitration Laura J. Cooper University of Minnesota Law School, lcooper@umn.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Laura J. Cooper, Discovery in Labor Arbitration, 72 Minn. L. Rev. 1281 (1988), available at http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/ faculty_articles/307. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Minnesota Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in the Faculty Scholarship collection by an authorized administrator of the Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact lenzx009@umn.edu. Discovery in Labor Arbitration Laura J.Cooper* The mere statement of the topic, discovery in labor arbitration, suggests a paradox. Is not the essence of the arbitration process an effort to avoid the procedural complexities that make litigation comparatively slow and costly? More than forty years ago, Learned Hand admonished a litigant distressed with the procedural failings of an arbitration proceeding: Arbitration may or may not be a desirable substitute for trials in courts; as to that the parties must decide in each instance. But when they have adopted it, they must be content with its informalities; they may not hedge it about with those procedural limitations which it is precisely its purpose...
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...© Andrew Le Sueur 2004, a.lesueur@bham.ac.uk The rise and ruin of unreasonableness? Andrew Le Sueur Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Birmingham 1. Introduction Lest we forget what was actually said in 1948, Lord Greene stated:[1] It is true to say that, if a decision on a competent matter is so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it, then the courts can interfere. That, I think, is quite right; but to prove a case of that kind would require something overwhelming … It is not what the court considers unreasonable, a different thing altogether. If it is what the court considers unreasonable, the court may very well have different views to that of a local authority on matters of high public policy of this kind. Some courts might think that no children ought to be admitted on Sundays at all, some courts might think the reverse, and all over the country I have no doubt on a thing of that sort honest and sincere people hold different views. The effect of the legislation is not to set up the court as an arbiter of the correctness of one view over another. It is the local authority that are set in that position and, provided they act, as they have acted, within the four corners of their jurisdiction, this court, in my opinion, cannot interfere. Put like this, unreasonableness as a ground of review is a straightforward concept, based on sound constitutional principles and a useful longstop...
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...International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2013, 228-234 Police Corruption in India ____________________________________________________________________ Ravikanth B. Lamani1 G. S. Venumadhava2 Abstract Police as a Law enforcing agency is an important institution of that social control which existed in some form or the other in all society in all ages. Police is an integral part of the present day society. A society in the present set up cannot live and progress without an effective, sincere and honest police force. The Indian police have its roots in the ancient period and the present day police are the outcome of an evolutionary process. The bad things which it has inherited from the old system include corruption among policemen today. Corruption exists in one form or the other in the police system. Corruption has infected every sphere of modern life. It has vitiated the moral values of the society and the police force cannot be an exception. In fact, corruption of police is not a new phenomenon, but the irony is that the issue has seldom been seized by the organization with a sense of seriousness. In this paper an attempt has been made to discuss the various aspects of police corruption in India. The author has tried to discuss the various factors responsible for police corruption and suggest some remedies to control the corruption among policemen. The main objective of the paper is to discuss the extent, causes and...
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