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Health and Safety Management System Standard
Element 12.0
12.1 Requirement
Forest Products Limited shall develop and Emergency Measures program to adequately prepare for and respond to potential emergencies in order to prevent injuries, prevent property damage, prevent environmental damage, and to achieve the earliest possible return to normal operations.
12.2 Responsibilities

General responsibilities shall be developed for the following positions in Forest Products Limited as may be appropriate.

President
The President will promote health and safety measures through leadership. That is; the responsibility of the President will be to ensure implementation of the program.

Production Manager

The Production Manager will promote health and safety measures in the production process by ensuring proper guidelines in the use of machinery.

Health and Safety Manager

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Breaches in Workplace, Health and Safety Laws

The Workplace, Health and Safety laws were implemented as from January, 2012; they have played a significant role in regulating the manner through, which organisations and companies provide safe and healthy working environments to their clients (Taylor & Easter, 2013). These regulations guide safety issues i.e. Provision of efficient First Aid Services to compensation of workers (Taylor & Easter, 2013). However, in the context of the Tourist Hotel, it appears that there are several cases of breach of these laws as discussed herein:

Breach of First Aid Provision Laws

The Workplace, Health and Safety Laws stipulate five major steps that have to be considered by organizations in Continue reading...

The two firefighters failed to resist the hazardous conditions that they had met inside the house on fire. They had their gas masks off because they could not accommodate the toxic gas emitting from the burning house. The attempt to fight for their lives failed to make a positive response due to the long time they had spent in the chamber. The two firefighters had inhaled a huge amount of the gas which had gone to the lungs. The two suffered gaseous poisoning in their lungs which may have caused the heart attack due to the high amount of Continue reading...

The company is required to develop, implement and maintain procedures for identification of hazards, assessment of risks and selection of controls. When implementing and maintaining these procedures all the stakeholders in the company must be involved. In the process of assessing risks ensures that the highly risky areas are identified and careful selection of controls should be done.
For hazards to be identified proper implementation procedures for these hazards should be put in place. Accidents that have occurred previously should be examined in order to know the cause of such accidents and to evaluate how it happened and the Continue reading...

Introduction

Children are the greatest investment one could ever make; this is because they are the hope of the future. Every positive thing that you give to or sacrifice for the sake of your children will eventually help them grow into healthy, happy, and functional members of the society. Unfortunately, not all children get to have the opportunity to grow into those kinds of individuals. The reason behind this is because a lot of children in the world are not being properly taken care of. They still remain to be the most vulnerable members of various communities. Their rights are Continue reading...

Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness

[Institution’s Name]
Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness
(Oklahoma Severe Storms and Tornadoes May 20, 2013)
Natural disasters are always the major threats for human existance. One of the most evident natural disasters occurred latterly includes, the Moore tornado, at Oklahoma in the year 2013. It was an EF5 tornado that struck Oklahoma in the afternoon of May 20th. The highest of the peak of the wind is recorded at two hundred and ten mph (340 km per hour). The kind of tornado is compared to the earlier version of tornado that hit the place in the year 1999. The Continue reading...

Jessica is a 32 year old female who is employed as a math teacher who entered the ER with a friend for an evaluation of sudden decrease in vision in her left eye. Jessica denies any trauma, injury, tearing, redness, or exposure to chemicals. She states she noticed the decrease in vision this morning when she woke up and since then it has progressively worsened. She states she has had some blurring of her vision that started about a month ago. Jessica attributes the blurring to becoming overheated, as it resolves when she enters a cool, air-conditioned environment. She Continue reading...

The NFPA 1500 standards stipulates the minimum health program and occupational safety requirements for the fire departments and any other organization that handle fire outbreaks, provide rescue, emergency medical services, emergency services, and handling other hazardous materials. In particular, the standards address the protective clothing, equipments and apparatus, physical and medical requirements and overall health and fitness of the workers These minimum requirements ensure that the workers are fit to handle the emergency situation competently. They also ensure that he equipments are up to date, well maintained such that they cannot fail in the process of handling emergency. The Continue reading...

Introduction

The paper analyzes the ethical issues involved in China’s mining of rare metals. Over the years, China has significantly been reducing its export and supply of ‘green products.’ Such products include electric products that are energy efficient. The reason for this has greatly been influenced by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s policy of regulating the amount of certain rare metals that are exported. The government has further imposed complete bans on the export of other metals. China is rated as the world’s number one producer of rare metals and manufacture of products that Continue reading...

Do you believe that the U.S. government treated some financial institutions differently during the crisis? Was that appropriate?
The decision made by US government might be based on the policies that were never known to the public. After careful analysis of case, we might conclude that the decision made by the government was biased on some basis. We can say this because there were instances where Federal Reserved bailed two companies before Lehman. In addition to this, Federal Reserve bailed AIG after two days of Lehman fall. But, in real, as the government should look for the country’s Continue reading...

Essay

Chamberlain College of Nursing
This Paper was prepared for_________ taught by___________
Introduction
The primary goal of telenursing is delivering nursing care with the use of telemedicine technologies in the environment where the participants are geographically separated. The studies show telenursing is used in chronic, pediatric, coronary, psychiatric, obstetric, orthopedic, neurologic, rehabilitative and newborn care (Grady & Schlachta-Fairchild, 2007), with impressive results like improved glucose profile of diabetes’ patients, symptoms’ reduction in cancer care, minimal requirement for intravenous infusions in ICUs (Williams, Habbard, Daye & Bardenn, 2012; Lashkari et al.,2013;Petitte et al.,2014). Telenursing is appreciated by patients for continuous Continue reading...