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Essay Instructions: Safety standards in the meatpacking industry commands attention these days. Machines and assembly (or de-assembly I suppose) lines move faster and faster, posing ever greater risk to life, limb, or digit. With greater number of immigrant and undocumented workers laboring in the industry, concerns about safety loom larger. Let's have a look at the issue....

Please go to the Proquest Library and read:

Group criticizes packers Meat industry officials dismiss Human Rights Watch report Recommendations [Iowa, Nebraska Edition]

Cindy Gonzalez. Omaha World - Herald. Omaha, Neb.: Jan 26, 2005. pg. 01.B

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=1&did=&SrchMode=1&sid=8&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1&clientId=29440


Abstract

In Nebraska, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is teaming up with Omaha-based Mexican Consul Jose Cuevas on a proposal to educate immigrants on workplace safety, Cuevas said.

OSHA in 2004 pledged to help provide training and oversight to meatpacking cleaning companies. The arrangement was prompted by a World-Herald investigation on the contract cleaning industry's history of severe injuries and OSHA violations.

Recommendations Human Rights Watch recommendations for protecting workers in the meat and poultry industry include: New federal and state laws to reduce production line speeds. Stronger state regulations to halt underreporting of injuries. Stronger worker compensation laws and enforcement of anti-retaliation laws. U.S. labor law compliance with international standards on workers' freedom of association. New laws ensuring workers' safety regardless of their immigration status.

The above article explains the conclusions and recommendations of the Human Rights Watch with regard to work safety, particular where it concerns immigrant workers.

Do you agree with these recommendations?



EXPECTATIONS:

Please write a five page answer to this question and hand it in by the end of this module; be sure to frame your argument in utilitarian and deontological terms.


Required Reading for Case Assignment

Improvements in workplace safety--United States, 1900-1999
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; Atlanta; Jun 11, 1999; Anonymous;

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/meatpacking/

Essay Instructions: This is a short proposal for a quantitative pilot study which deals with research problem. Topic should be about (Aviation Safety). Base the proposal format upon the quantitative proposal format template outlined here:
Introduction
-statement of the problem
-Purpose of the study and delimitation
-Theoretical perspective
-Research questions or hypothesis
Methods
-Type of research design
-Population, sample and participants
-Data collection instruments, variables, and materials
-Data analysis
Anticipated ethical issues.
Please use general APA style but it is not necessary to include a title page and an abstract.
Identify appropriate hypotheses for your research problem and any corresponding, null hypotheses and alternative hypotheses.
Design a measurement tool, in the form of a questionnaire or interview questions, which can be used to assess the identified hypotheses. Discuss how such tool is appropriate for the job, for example:
-avoidance of unwarranted assumptions
-use of unambiguous questions
-clear instructions
-checks for consistency
Note: the design tool does not have to be extensive; it need only be around 4 questions.
Discuss how you would collect the data using your measurement tool and how analysis of the data will address the research hypotheses. For example:
-the appropriate type of sampling
-means of ensuring objectivity
-reduction of bias
-statistics to be used (Discuss what statistics are appropriate to use (such as a t test, for example) and discuss how to use of a statistical procedure will allow you to accept or reject a hypothesis, however, this is not statistics so I am not asking you to conduct such procedures on the data you collect.

Lastly, the above discussions need not be extensive, the whole paper needs not be more than 4 pages, so be precise and concise. Please do not hesitate if you need to contact me for any questions.



Thanks!

Essay Instructions: I am to select topic in the field of system safety, and prepare a well-organized and thoughtful research paper. The paper MUST relate to system safety, not just safety.
My paper must contain at least five references, and may include Internet sources, books, and professional journals or other resources related to the profession.
I would like to discuss the fundamental of a safety system, and discuss the why, how, what, when, and of a effective safety system.

Essay Instructions: Create a 7- to 10-screen (power point) presentation on the fundamentals of system safety. I may use various sources. Cite any sources used in a reference slide with proper APA formatting. (Cover slide and reference slide do not count in the screen requirement.) You may also use the slide notes function to explain slide contents as necessary.
Be sure to include information on the following in your presentation:
Basic definitions
Fundamental safety concepts
Why, how, when and who of system safety