Safety Policies Discussion

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Safety Policies

For this assignment, you will identify the top three major safety and health issues in a chosen firm, and write a policy on each, consistent with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) standards.

300 words for each of the three job policies.

Each of the five domains of OSHA must be considered when writing these three policies:

1. Hazard communication: How will you notify people of potentially dangerous or unhealthy work conditions?

2. Blood-borne pathogens: How will you protect employees from blood-borne pathogens such as AIDS?

3. Personal protective equipment (PPE): What equipment or tools will your employees in this job require to work safely?

4. Cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs): How will you prevent CTDs that come from repetitive movement (e.g., carpel tunnel syndrome)?

5. Work assignments: How will you handle potentially dangerous work assignments, especially to protect unborn

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Running head: SAFETY POLICIES

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Safety Policies
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SAFETY POLICIES

Introduction
Policies are very crucial for any firm since they guide the employees on how they are
supposed to perform their duties. They also lay out the duties and obligations of the employer and
the employee. It is therefore important that a firm has all the policies that are applicable.
a) Sanitation Policy
One of the major health and safety issue in the firm has to do with sanitation. Sanitation
refers to taking away dirty drinking water as well as other waste away from premises so as to
protect people's health. Bad sanitation results in a good number of people's illnesses in the firm. It
is therefore important to have a policy in place.
Hazard communication: It is the duty of the employer to communicate of any hazard that
is related to sanitation. This will be done through the intranet, internet as well as notice boards.
The employees are also encouraged to report any hazard that they come across as they do their
daily activities.
Blood-borne pathogens- the employer will put in place measures that protect employees
from contracting any bloodborne pathogens. All employees are going to receive training on how
to go about ...


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