Employee Safety and Health: An Introduction
Learning Objective 1
Discuss OSHA and how it operates.
Why Safety Is Important
Several years ago while filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon spaceship slammed Harrison Ford with the weight of a small car. It put him out of commission for several weeks, but thankfully didn’t injure him seriously. 1
Safety and accident prevention concern managers for several reasons, one of which is the staggering number of workplace accidents. In one recent year, 4,836 U.S. workers died in workplace incidents, 2 and workplace accidents caused about 2.9 million occupational injuries and illnesses. 3 There are about one million workplace hand injuries annually, from cuts ...
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