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At Green Branch Coffee, employees should have a safe and healthy work environment. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created to ensure this kind of environment. This week’s reading assignment and the M.U.S.E. item OSHA Standards may be helpful in completing this assignment.

For this assignment, you will create a report of at least 750 words. In your report, address the following:

Summarize the history and purpose of OSHA
Provide examples of 3 OSHA standards and how they are observed in the workplace.
Describe a real-world example of an organization that violated OSHA standards and the consequences of the violation.

 

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Employees should have a safe and healthy work environment

With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 1994, to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. Tyson Foods Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor`s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for four workplace safety violations at the Hutchinson prepared foods manufacturing plant after a worker`s hand was severed by an unguarded conveyor belt. OSHA proposed fines of $ 147,000 (http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/TysonFoodInc-913161-1213-13.pdf). Due to the nature and severity of violations, the company has been placed in OSHA`s Severe Violator Enforcement Program, which mandates targeted follow-up inspections to ensure compliance with the law.

John 2011). But in the western workplace, relationship and work is kept aside, targets are communicated to the employees. Employers expect that employees should share their problems with them and also come to the employers for further improvements in the business. Communication should be open from both sides. Due to large number of industries in Indonesia, cases of accidents at the workplace also has increased due to the wrong level of the machines, now Indonesian firms and Governments are arranging the machines according to the male and female posture levels. They are doing so for the well-being, health and comfort of the employees (Sutalaksana & Widyanti 2016). Indonesia has ranked fourth in the consumption of the cigarettes and as it has bad effects on the health of the people, So the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has taken initiatives for the safeguard of the people by banning this in the workplace and public places and in transportation. This is done by passing various laws.(Byron et al. 2013)
Social Stratification: In nineteen centuries, people was divided into various status system on the basis of races in Java. But in twentieth century, due to the economic changes and upgrading of western education the status pattern largely altered. Now discarding racial distinctions, education created the new status system like class of intellectual and non-intellectuals. These new classes challenged the European superior descents and also threatened the nobility status of Indonesian group. People are also stratified on the basis of religion like Islam, Arab Saudi and Kafir (White man). In previous years the people born in the Indonesia tried to hide their nationality but now have higher rank than Indonesian European and Indonesian Chinese. In present, people of European and Dutch nationality are not able to get good jobs and compete in Indonesia because of loss of status but some totok European and Americans are able to get good job if they not come in the category of labour market. Whether Peasants come in the large majority of Indonesia but actually merchant, intellectual and non-intellectuals come in the higher status system in the Indonesia (Wertheim 1955). JBR (Jakarta Bandung region) has largest urban population that is about 26.5% of the total population and has new infrastructure due to largest inve

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