This assignment involves completing a series of four exercises, and the purpose is for you to practice assessing workplace stressors, evaluating the regulatory environment, and evaluating controls within a workplace.
Exercise 1: Questionnaire and Interview Skills
For this exercise, place yourself in the shoes of someone who has been tasked to improve the workstation of an administrative assistant, like Beth. To practice your questionnaire and interview skills, develop a set of 10 questions that will allow you to learn more about the employee and her workstation in order to prevent any further ergonomics injuries.
Exercise 2: OSHA, FMCSA, and Controls
Prior to departing the truck terminal and after the walk-around inspection, Ben, the truck driver, has identified a problem, one that could lead to more dangerous problems for him while he is driving. He reports the problem to the terminal manager, who, afterward, informs Ben that the truckload must go out today and he must take his rig to make the delivery. After discussing this with the mechanic, Ben is told by the terminal manager that the repairs will be done upon his return and after the shipment has been delivered. In a 200-word essay, explain why Ben should not make the delivery with the problematic truck by addressing the OSHA guidelines and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA) guidelines to defend your assertions. This question might require you to research the guidelines prior to formulating a response. Also, briefly address how the pressure from the manager impacts Ben’s ability to successfully perform his job—what are the emotional and psychological implications from the manager’s actions?
Exercise 3: Quality Control and Inspection
This exercise involves evaluating quality control and inspections, which apply to basically all occupational incidents. This is an opportunity for you to select an incident that interests you. In the online library or from a major credible news source on the Internet, locate a current news story or article where some sort of failure occurred. The incident should not be more than three years old. The purpose of this exercise is to specifically highlight the failure of the quality-control-and-inspection system. Also, how would you have prevented this incident (the failure) from occurring by using the proper quality-control-and-inspection system? Your response should be at least 200 words, while also containing the appropriate references and in-text citations.
Exercise 4: Recommending a Preventative Maintenance Program
Since managers and executives are so busy, it is not always easy for them to identify how spending money will actually save money. This exercise involves drafting a statement to your management team in order to persuade them to invest in a preventative maintenance program. Highlight an example of preventative maintenance in your current work environment. First, estimate the cost of the preventative maintenance and then compare it to the cost of not fixing the problem along with the other problems that might occur because of it. With at least 200 words, prepare a statement to the management staff of your company to persuade them to proceed with the expenditure of the money in a preventative mode.
Additional Information:
Outcomes for Unit VII Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Evaluate the regulatory environment with respect to workplace ergonomics in America.
5. Assess common workplace stressors.
7. Evaluate common controls for mitigating ergonomic related hazards.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 14: Questionnaires and interviews
Chapter 15: Quality control and inspection
Chapter 16: System reliability and maintenance
Unit Lesson
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Homework: a detailed outline of the Cause-and-Effect essay is due at the beginning of class. Students must list their main subject and all main supporting points, including placement of sources where they support ideas, challenge ideas, or add detail, background, or concepts. All 3 sources must be integrated into the outline, not merely listed at the end. No credit will be given for a “draft of the essay: it must be an outline. Discuss sample cause and effect thesis statements.
As time permits, in-class work on the cause and effect essay, including one or more of the following: focus on paraphrase and in-text citations, the Works Cited page, the Introduction and thesis statement.
Topic for cause and effect - Legalization of Marijuana
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Homework: a detailed outline of the Cause-and-Effect essay is due at the beginning of class. Students must list their main subject and all main supporting points, including placement of sources where they support ideas, challenge ideas, or add detail, background, or concepts. All 3 sources must be integrated into the outline, not merely listed at the end. No credit will be given for a “draft of the essay: it must be an outline. Discuss sample cause and effect thesis statements.
As time permits, in-class work on the cause and effect essay, including one or more of the following: focus on paraphrase and in-text citations, the Works Cited page, the Introduction and thesis statement.
Essay must be in MLA format
Topic for - Legalization of Marijuana
The outline is just 1page
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Research paper on 3 veterinary computer software programs. In the paper these questions must be answered:
1. Names of the three brands of software that you’ve chosen
and a brief description of each of them
2. Information about the companies who make the software
3. Pros and cons of each software package—What does
each program do or not do?
4. How are technical support issues handled?
5. Discuss what kind of contingency plan each company
has to handle system failure/recovery
6. Is installation of the server and other hardware
provided?
7. Are updates to software automatic, or do they need to be
requested?
8. Include office functions, like reminders, accounting,
billing, inventory control, and so on
9. Is the system able to import lab results directly from the
laboratory into the medical record?
10. If describing a cloud-based software system, you’re still
required to provide all of the information above as it
relates to the cloud-based system.
3 pages minimum. It also needs to be in APA format.
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.Phylum Arthropoda The Earth’s largest phylum is Arthropoda, including centipedes, millipedes,crustaceans, and insects. The insects have shown to be a particularly
successful class within the phylum. What biological characteristics have contributed to the success of insects? In many science fiction scenarios,
post-apocalyptic Earth is mainly populated with giant insects. Why don’t we see giant insects today?Your assignment should be 250-500 words in length, in text citation and references.
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Week 2 Case Study Dell, read the case study on pages 95-97. Complete A 2-3 Case Study Analysis (outline attached) and answer the questions at the end. Include an appendix with the answers to the case questions.
The Case Analysis MUST be in APA format. Include cover page, in text citations and a reference list. 3 pages paper.
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This assignment provides you with an opportunity to select an alert system, research it, and evaluate its quality and usability from an ergonomics perspective. First, identify an alert system. It can be an everyday system, or it can be one used at your workplace. Second, research the details of the alert system by using at least one resource in the CSU Online Library. You can include credible resources from the Internet but be sure to include at least one from the CSU Online Library. Third, after effectively collecting all of the information about the system, evaluate its quality and usability from an ergonomics perspective. Prepare a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation with your results, and the presentation should include each of the following:
Briefly describe the alert system and the setting.
Briefly explain the purpose of the system.
Briefly explain what triggers the alarm.
Briefly explain how the employee should respond once the alarm triggers.
Briefly explain how human variability impacts the design of displays and controls.
Provide your analysis of quality.
Provide your analysis of usability.
(Not required) If you feel the system could be improved, explain how.
Include a title slide and references slide; however, they do not count toward the total slide count. Use APA Style for all in-text and reference citation
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