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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e

by Gary Dessler
January 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
32h 52m
English
Pearson
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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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ISBN: 9780134740218