Legal Encounter 1 New Corp hired Pat as manager of real property in Vermont; this position is responsible for activities related to maintaining leased office space. Pat supervised 51 employees and lower-level supervisors, and he dealt with tenants who leased commercial space. Pat relocated from another city 300 miles away, moving his wife and children and selling and buying a home. His wife quit her job to seek employment in Vermont. After Pat had been working for three months, his boss
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assurance of a working environment free from health hazards. The two important workplace regulations in place that affect employees at all levels are workers’ compensation laws at the state level and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) at the federal level (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010). Workers’ Compensation The workers’ compensation system offers wages and medical payment to employees who experienced injury or illness on-the-job. Workers’ compensation programs have been in
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Running head: LEGAL ENCOUNTERS WEEK FOUR Legal Encounters Week Four Henry L. Franklin, Jr. University Of Phoenix Business Law 531 Dr. Gross January 13, 2009 Legal Encounter 1, in the case of Pat Grey. Pat Grey is a manager of real property for Newcorp in Vermont. Pat is responsible focus is leasing commercial properties; he also managed 51 employees and addition to lower level supervisors. When he accepted the position he relocated his family to Vermont during this transitional
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sound pressure level of 92.3dBA b. Ans 98.3dBA= 2*92.3 Dba. This is because the scale measurement is logarithmic and every time the sound increases by 6dBA, the sound intensity doubles. c. Ans 86.3dBA 3. a. Ans This is a legal requirement set by OSHA, authorizing employers to keep their employees at an exposure limit at 90dB or below it for an average 8-hour duration. b. ans 2.3dB 4. a. Ans This is a limit set by NIOSH and it is based on noise intensity that is able to cause loss in hearing
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tanks, and so on, often where hot work will need to take place. Hot work in a confined space is characterized by limited space for entry or exit, and poor ventilation of air and other hazardous gases and fumes (Asfahl, Hammer, & Price, 2004/2001). OSHA 1910.146 specifies a permit-required confined space as an area that has one or more of the following characteristics: contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains a material that has the potential to engulf an entrant;
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Two important OSHA standards for dentistry are Blood-Bourne Pathogens Standard and the Hazard Communication Standard. All states are regulated by OSHA. Twenty-two states have their own state operated OSHA programs however they still have to meet the federal OSHA standards. OSHA monitors compliance by conducting investigations. If a workplace fails to meet safety requirements a citation can be issued for each violation. If the workplace fails to correct unsafe conditions, OSHA has the legal authority
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<Stericycle> notes Stericycle, Inc. is in the business of managing regulated waste and providing an array of related and complementary services. The Company operates in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The regulated waste services the Company provides include medical waste disposal, its Steri-Safe medical waste and compliance program, its Clinical Services program, its Bio Systems reusable sharps
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measures complying with the requirements of OSHA are set for companies and workplaces before they are offered the license to operate. It has been noticed that the tragic history of all fire disasters is related to problems with fire exits and extinguishing systems which make an important part of a whole fore protection system. Of course, workplaces with fire exit problems do violate the safety requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA. Since fire protection systems aim to
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while the employee is off working it will provide loss wages payments to the employee. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has set laws and regulations in place to make sure that companies under its jurisdiction provide and safe and healthy place for customers and employees. Companies that are governed under the rules and regulations of OSHA have guidelines to follow and if under inspection OSHA finds that any company is not in compliance with making sure that employees are provided
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Administration (OSHA). The OSHA regulatory exposure limits permissible exposure limits (PELs) published in 29CFR 1910.1000 Table Z1 are based on recommendations made by the ACGIH in 1968, although other exposure limits were adopted more recently. Many OSHA exposure limits are not considered by the industrial hygiene community to be sufficiently protective levels. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) publishes recommended exposure limits (RELs) which OSHA takes into consideration
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