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it's Human resource homework i will attache the pictures.

there is page has a running case with 3 questions the questions will be answered based on the case.

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CHAPTER 14 Occupational Health and Safety 351 RUNNING CASE At first glance, Running Case: LearninMotion.com The New Health and Safety Program And although the company has not received any would expect to find potential health and safety hazards o Jennifer and Pierre thought. There is no danger of a dot-com is one of the last places you ticularly scared them. The firm uses independent con- heavy lifting, and certainly no forklift trucks. However, fiding his bike at the corner of King and Bay Streets dot-com companies have lots of are cables and wires. In terms of unsafe conditions, for instance, two things and the close call got Pierre and Jennifer thinking about There are cables connecting the computers to each other and to the servers, and in many cases separate cables run- from some computers to separate printers. There are machinery, no high-pressure lines, no o cutting or claims yet, every employee spends hours at his or her computer, so carpal tunnel syndrome is a risk, as are eyestrain and strained backs. One recent incident par- tractors to deliver the firm's book and online courses in Toronto and two other cities. A delivery person was in Toronto, where he was struck by a car. Luckily he was not hurt, but the bike's front wheel was wrecked, moving their lack of a safety program. ning ering It's not just the physical conditions that concern the company's two owners. They also have some concerns about 10 telephones in the office, all on five-metre phone lines potential health problems, such as job stress and burnout. that always seem to be snaking around chairs and tables . Although the business may be (relatively) safe with respect There is, in fact, an astonishing amount of cable consid- to physical conditions, it is also relatively stressful in terms of the demands it makes in terms of hours and deadlines. that this is an office with fewer than 10 employ- It is not at all uncommon for employees to get to work electricity, high-speed DSL, phone lines, security system, ces . When the installation specialists wired the office (for by 7:30 or 8 A.M. and to work through until 11 p.M. Of and computers), they estimated that they used more than midnight, at least five and sometimes six or seven days per five kilometres of cable of one sort or another. Most of week. Getting the company's new calendar fine-tuned and operational requires 70-hour workweeks for three weeks the cables are hidden in the walls or ceilings, but many of them snake their way from desk to desk and under and from five of LearnInMotion.com's employees. over doorways. The bottom line is that both Jennifer and Pierre feel quite strongly that they need to do something about imple- Several employees have tried to reduce the nuisance menting a health and safety plan. Now they want you, their of having to trip over wires whenever they get up by put- management consultant, to help them actually do it. ting their plastic chair pads over the wires closest to them. However, that still leaves many wires unprotected. In other QUESTIONS cases, they brought in their own packing tape and tried to 1 If LearnInMotion.com happened to receive a visit down the wires in those spaces where they are par- tape from the Ministry of Labour, what specific areas do ticularly troublesome, such as across doorways. you feel they would be ordered to change and why? The cables and wires are one of the more obvious 2 As owners of LearnInMotion.com, do Jennifer and potential accident-causing conditions. The firm's pro- Pierre have specific responsibilities for ensuring their grammer, before he left the firm, had tried to repair the employees' health and safety is maintained and for main server while the unit was still electrically alive. To having a health and safety policy in place which is this day, they are not exactly sure where he stuck the 3 What unsafe conditions and acts were described in room," as Pierre puts it. He was all right, but it was subsequently enforced? screwdriver, but the result was that he was "blown across this case? the still a scare.
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Question one
One of the areas the ministry of labor would recommend change is the number of weekly
working ours. Employees at learnInMotion.com are said to at times work from 8.00 am to around
11.00 pm which is about 70 hours in a week. As far as health is concerned overworking may lead
to ...


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