Safety skills working conditions

Within the wage and hour area, safety professionals should be aware of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which is an adjunct to the ELSA. This law addresses discrimination in wage rates based on the sex of male and female employees doing jobs that require equal skills, efforts, and responsibilities and performed under similar working conditions, unless the company or organization can justify the difference through one of the exceptions. Safety professionals should be aware that in 1978, the administration and enforcement of the Equal Pay Act was transferred from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ... 

Safety professionals should be aware that although the term equal is used in the Equal Pay Act, the courts have interpreted this term to mean substantially equal and not identical. Specifically, the courts have evaluated the four areas or standards of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions to determine whether or not a company or organization is in compliance with this law. Safety... 

The safety of the employees will always depend, to a greater or lesser degree, on their own skill and ability to work safely , based on their training, knowledge and experience. Under normal conditions, the competence of individuals makes an essential contribution to workplace... 

Develop profiles of jobs considered suitable for early-return participants. A profile should define the job in terms of overall physical demands, motions required, environmental conditions, the number of times the job is performed per week, and its duration. Conduct a systematic analysis of specific jobs for the purpose of modifying them to accommodate the unique needs of the injured worker. Individuals who are skilled in ergonomic task analysis, engineering, safety, and biomechanics should help perform the job analysis. Managed-care providers can also assist in job modifications. Communicate the availability of early-return jobs with care providers, claims adjusters, and the injured worker. Work with your managed-care provider and worker to move them to full production status in their assigned jobs as quickly as possible. 

Skilled trades are subject to few regulations their whole of their rather modest safety structure is based mostly on the quality and skills of the operators themselves, with the high level of variation that is inherent in individual quahty. On the other hand, for these experts adaptation to exceptional conditions is their everyday work and they are remarkably good at it (at least this is true of the best of than, who survive both economically and physically). 

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