Occupational Safety and Health

1. Summarize the obstacles in the way of developing a broadly acceptable standard for floor slipperiness.

 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

2. What engineering approach to risk reduction could be applied to both attacks by former employees and to attacks stemming from domestic disputes?

 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

3. Sometimes in the popular press we find articles suggesting that ergonomists want to eliminate hard physical work. What is a more correct characterization of the ergonomist view of hard physical work?

 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations

 

 

 

4. Explain why step uniformity is so important for stairways.

 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

5. Discuss the three physiological systems associated with upper extremity cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs), a subset of MSDs, and provide an example of a CTD/MSD for each of the three systems.

 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.