Question

Safety Policies for a life coaching firm:. Identify the top three significant safety and health issues in your firm, and write a policy on each, consistent with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) standards. There is a minimum requirement of 300 words for each of the three job policies. Each of the five domains of OSHA must be considered when writing these three policies: 1. Hazard communication: How will you notify people of potentially dangerous or unhealthy work conditions? 2. Blood-borne pathogens: How will you protect employees from blood-borne pathogens such as AIDS? 3. Personal protective equipment (PPE): What equipment or tools will your employees in this job require working safely? 4. Cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs): How will you prevent CTDs that come from repetitive movement (e.g., carpel tunnel syndrome)? 5. Work assignments: How will you handle potentially dangerous work assignments, primarily to protect unborn babies? NOTE: This is a three-part assignment. All three of the policies (300 words each)

Answer 1

- Safety policies for the life coaching firm

These are the set standards or documents comprising the objectives of the policy, the hazard description for which the policy is to be formulated, assessment of the risk, the commitment towards the minimization & control of the risk & evaluation of the results etc.

- The three major hazards in firms are as below

1. Safety - It's due to substance or the object, the injury caused when being contact with them.

2. Chemical - It is caused by chemical ingredients i.e vapors, carbon monoxide, silica dust etc )

3. Biological - Caused by infectious materials, people's, animal waste material etc.

4. Physical - Radiation, working in extreme heat or cold.

-> The policies must be constructed for each hazard separately and must encompass the the type of hazards, it's assessment, control regulation, commitment & evaluation of the result.

For this the below measures are to be taken into the consideration as OSHA key functions before formulation of the policies.

* Sets Standards

* Listens & responds to work appeals

* Publishing of research & data on workplace safety

* Issuing hazard alerts

* Provide training & education

- In all the three hazard cases the policy formulation comprises of the following steps-

• Communicate health & safety issue to staff
• Assessment of risk
• Detail with any hazard promptly
• Invite feedback from staff on safety improvement
• Display safety information clearly
• Maintain comfort & cleanliness
• provide first aid supplies
• Meet five safety domains
• Keep SOP updated year by year or when any change is done.