Chapter 16: Managing Workplace Safety and Health

Chapter 16: Managing Workplace Safety and Health
Challenges

After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges:

1.Describe the extent of the employer's responsibility to maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
2.Explain the reasons for safety and health laws and the costs and obligations they impose on employers.
3.Identify the basic provisions of workers' compensation laws and health and safety legislation.
4.Develop an awareness of contemporary health and safety issues, including AIDS, violence against employees, workplace smoking, repetitive strain injuries, substance abuse, and hazardous materials.
5.Describe the features of safety programs and understand the reasons for and the effects of programs designed to enhance employee welfare.