Employment Law and Policies Research Paper: OSHA Regulations in Construction Brittany Howlett June 19‚ 2011 Ottawa University Employment Law and Policies Monahan Brief Background of OSHA Regulations OSHA refers to the Occupational Safety and Health Act enacted by the United States Congress in 1970. It was signed into law by Richard Nixon‚ the then United States President in December of that same year. It is a federal law that oversees the adherence to and enforcement of health and safety within
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Safety management is the top priority of OSHA‚ therefore management should always be prepared to allow compliance inspector to conduct inspection after verification of credential. It is vital for employers to refuse OSHA compliance officers to enter company property. It is the employer rights under federal and state law. Furthermore employer may refuse entry to OSHA compliance officer by demanding that OSHA provide a search warrant. As provided in my pervious post that the company should allow OSHA’s
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Viroids are plant pathogens that consist of a short stretch (a few hundred nucleobases) of highly complementary‚ circular‚ single-stranded RNA without the protein coat that is typical for viruses.[1] The smallest discovered is a 220 nucleobase scRNA (small cytoplasmic RNA) associated with the rice yellow mottle sobemovirus (RYMV).[2] In comparison‚ the genome of the smallest known viruses capable of causing an infection by themselves are around 2kilobases in size. The human pathogen hepatitis D is similar
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OSHA Trenching Requirements Every month two workers are killed in trench collapses and that requires the employer to follow requirements and safety procedures. The trenching and excavation requirements of 29 CFR 1926.651 and 1926.652 or comparable OSHA-approved state plan requirements must be complied by the employer at all times. A man made cut‚ dig‚ cavity‚ trench‚ or depression in an earth surface is what defines excavation. Trench is a narrow excavation below the surface of the ground and
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OSHA Lawsuit The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against a Helena-based company named Kbec Inc. in January 2013. Kbec Inc. is a Dairy Queen franchisee that‚ “illegally terminated an employee for making complaints regarding workplace violence at the company ’s facility.” (Todd & Rodriguez‚ 2013). In this article‚ there are no details given on what was the nature of the complaints filed by the employee originally‚ however‚ searching
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dwelling on what they should rightly be receiving. 2. Before being granted full authority for its occupational safety and health programs‚ a state must go through three steps. What are they? To gain OSHA approval for a developmental plan - the first step in the State plan process - a State must assure OSHA that within three years it will have in place all the structural elements necessary for an effective occupational safety and health program. These elements include: appropriate legislation; regulations
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There are many indications that a medical office is compliant to OSHA. Four OSHA regulations that a medical office should have are: There should always be an OSHA poster present in the office for all of the employees to see. The poster explains worker rights to a safe workplace and how to file a complaint. There should be a use of labels or color-coding for items such as sharps disposal boxes and containers for regulated waste‚ contaminated laundry‚ and certain specimens. Every employee should be
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rapid detection of such diseases. The severity of such diseases can be reduced by its rapid detection carried out by different methods. The conventional methods may include the idea of just identifying the disease symptoms‚ identification of these pathogens in the laboratory by different morphological and biochemical tests‚ etc [1]. The conventional methods may include certain disadvantages like incorrect identification which would eventually lead to an incorrect diagnosis and a wrong treatment. Certain
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microbiology class at Brunswick Community College. This journey started out with a media plate cultured with an unknown species of bacteria. I was then instructed by my professor to use all of my previous knowledge to identify the unknown bacterial pathogen. This lab led me to master my skills of using the Gram stain‚ testing for catalase‚ testing for coagulase and using the oxacillin screen. Now I am going to take you with me on the journey to the unknown. As I recall from earlier that semester
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1. Make sure you label both plates on the bottom‚ with your name‚ date and name of pathogen you have chosen (listed above under materials) Then label numbers 1-5 on one plate and 6-10 on the other as there are 10 disks that need to be placed. Spread out in a circle formation like pictured below (This is the final product; look at this for reference on how to label) Now you are ready to start culturing. Start with one of your plates you can do both at the same time but to avoid making any errors
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