2.  Safety- protecting employees from injuries caused by work- related accidents  Health- employees’ freedom from physical or emotional illness.

3. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1994 created the Safety and Health Administration Aims to ensure safe working conditions for every worker by - Setting and enforcing work - Promoting employer- sponsored educational programs - Requiring employers to keep records regarding job related safety and health matters

4.  Employers have responsibility to furnish a workplace free from recognize hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm

5.  Reduce occupational hazards through direct intervention  Promote a safe and healthy culture through compliance assistance, cooperative program and strong leadership  Maximize OSHA’s effectiveness and efficiency by strengthening its capabilities and infrastructures

6.  Give employers choice between partnership and traditional enforcement  Inject common sense into regulation and enforcement  Eliminate red tape

7.  Serious hazard citation has maximum penalty of $ 7000  Willful citation might have a maximum amount of $ 70,000 per violation  If 10 employees were exposed to one hazard the employer intentionally did not eliminate, the penalty amount would immediately jump to $ 700,000

8.  Authorized stricter enforcement measures  Increase oversight of firms that have received high gravity citations  Mount criminal prosecutions against employers where fatalities are involved

9.  Average employer will not likely see OSHA inspector unless employee instigates an inspection  70% of OSHA inspections resulted from employee complaints  Employer has option of denying inspector access to work site- required to get a warrant

10.  Have not always been positive  OSHA has overcome most of past critisms  87% of workers and employers rated OSHA staff professionalism, competence and knowledge as satisfactory

11.  Job-related deaths and injuries extract high toll in terms of human misery  Significant costs passed along to consumer  Everyone affected (directly or indirectly) by deaths and injuries

12.  Unsafe employee actions- create psychological environment and employee attitudes that promote safety  Unsafe working conditions- develop and maintain safe physical working environment

13.  Personal loss  Financial loss to injured employees  Lost productivity  Higher insurance premiums  Possibility of fines and imprisonment  Social responsibility

14.  Job hazard analysis- key to determining and implementing the necessary controls, procedures and training  Superfund Amendments Reauthorization Act, Title III (SARA) – requires business to communicate more openly about hazards associated with materials they use and produce and wasted they generate

15.  Employee involvement- include employees, gives sense of accomplishment  Safety engineer- staff member who coordinates overall safety program  Accident investigation- safety engineer and line manager investigate accidents  Evaluate safety program

16.  Reduction in frequency and severity on injuries  Effective reporting system needed

17.  Vulnerable(tersinggung) employees  Vulnerable organizations  Legal consequences of workplace violence  Individual and organizational characteristic to monitor  Preventive actions

18.  Gas stations and liquor stores  Taxi drivers  Police officers working night shift VULNERABLE EMPLOYEES

19.  Negligent hiring- hiring the incapable person  Negligent retention- don’t take action to the wrong doing workers

20.  Chronic labor/ management disputes(berbalah)  Frequent grievances( rungutan) filed by employees  Large number of workers’ compensation claims  Understaffing and excessive demands for overtime in an authorization management style

21.  Civil lawsuits claiming negligent hiring or negligent retention account for more than half of estimated $ 36 billion a year cost to business  Negligent retention- occurs when company keeps persons on payroll whose records indicate strong potential for wrongdoing and fails to take steps defuse a possible violent situation

22.  Body’s nonspecific reaction to any demand on it  Potential consequences- diseases that are leading causes of death, may even lead to suicide (bunuh diri)  Stressful jobs- lack of employee control over work.