Services sector professionals

A Type II workplace violence event involves an assault by someone who is either the recipient or the object of a service provided by the affected workplace or the victim. Even though Type I events represent the most common type of fatality, type II events involving victims who provide services to the public are also increasing. Type II events accounted for approximately 30% of workplace homicides. Further, when more occupation-specific data about nonfatal workplace violence becomes available, nonfatal Type II events involving assaults to service providers, especially to health care providers, may represent the most prevalent category of workplace violence resulting in physical injury. Type II events involve fatal or nonfatal injuries to individuals who provide services to the public. These events involve assaults on public safety and correctional personnel, municipal bus or railway drivers, health care and social service providers, teachers, sales personnel, and other public or private service sector employees who provide professional, public safety, administrative, or business services to the public. 

Some solutions have been found to the problem of protection for employees who make reports. A number of legislative frameworks (no blame, no shame) protect staff who make reports in certain countries (particularly the United States and Denmark ) in many industrial and service sectors. For example, for 25 years the national aviation safety reporting system in the United States (ASRS—Aviation Safety Reporting System) has protected the aviation professionals who report their errors by guaranteeing them anonymity and rendering legal prosecution impossible. Similar systems now exist in the medical domain. 

Tables 27-1 to 27-3 have concentrated on the personnel makeup of control agencies. For a broader look at places of employment. Table 27-4 shows where 8037 members of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) of the United States and Canada worked in 1982. (This list includes foreign as well as domestic members of APCA but does not include the membership of the air pollution control associations of other countries.) This table shows that only 10.7% of the members work in control agencies. This table gives a somewhat distorted picture because in many air pollution organizations only the senior executive, professional, and scientific personnel belong to APCA, whereas the total North American workforce in air pollution includes several times the 8037 membership total who are in junior, technical, service, or manual sectors and are not association members. These numbers could be still greater if those engaged in this work outside North America were included. The Air Pollution Control Association changed its name to the Air and Waste Management Association in 1988. The Air and Waste Management Association had a membership of over 14,000 in 1993, but only a portion of the members were active in the air pollution profession.

Client is another expression that is occasionally useful. The term is usually reserved for professional services, so there are legal clients and clients for financial services. Travel agents often refer to their customers as clients. It is apparent that the term client connotes a serious professional service and may be used to upgrade the status of an industry sector. Indeed, it is quite common for the word client to be used in the sex trade (Ryan Kinder, 1996). 

This vision of the treatment system in a new NDCS involves multiservice treatment facUities that can provide for the diverse needs of the public-sector treatment population. This means that a variety of levels of service would be available (long- and short-term residential, outpatient, and intensive outpatient), a multidisciplinary professional staff (e.g., addiction counselors, medical personnel, mental health professionals) would be provided, and a seamless method to provide ancillary services such as vocational training, financial management, and self-care skills would be in place. Services such as child care would be provided to remove barriers to treatment. There must be provisions for regular follow-up contact with treatment professionals and/or attendance at some kind of support group. AU of this requires an infusion of resources to upgrade the public-sector treatment system. 

The figures tell more about the nature of the work than of effectiveness. More technicians, more services, and unique research facilities will raise the figure, while simpler organizational structure and prevalence of one to three person research projects tend to lower it. Othe points show up within each sector when we look at Figure 3, which shows the cost per professional person for each sector in constant 1972 dollars. On this basis, each sector has declined. Since 1973, the true industry cost per R D professional has gone down by about 5%, the government by 7%, and universities by about 14%. 

Safety and loss prevention professionals may also look for potential joint ventures within the public sector (such as municipalities) for various specialty services, such as confined-space injury and rescue. Often the expenditure required to acquire equipment for such specialty areas can be extremely cost prohibitive however, compliance with the OSH A standard must be achieved and maintained. A joint venture with a local fire department that already owns the confined-space equipment may be a viable option, considering the capital expenditure for equipment, cost of training, and potential legal risks. Some safety and loss prevention professionals have been able to enter into joint ventures with municipalities or volunteer fire organizations to have such activities as confined-space entry and rescue performed by these organizations. 

Market professionals include the banks and specialist financial intermediaries mentioned above, firms that one would not automatically classify as investors, although they will also have an investment objective. Their time horizon will range from one day to the very long term. They include the proprietary trading desks of investment banks, as well as bond market makers in securities houses and banks who are providing a service to their customers. Proprietary traders will actively position themselves in the market in order to gain trading profit, for example, in response to their view on where they think interest rate levels are headed. These participants will trade direct with other market professionals and investors, or via brokers. Market makers or traders (also called dealers in the United States) are wholesalers in the bond markets they make two-way prices in selected bonds. Firms will not necessarily be active market makers in all types of bonds smaller firms often specialise in certain sectors. 

Safety professionals should be aware that COBRA is administered by several federal agencies. The U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service-Treasury Department have jurisdiction over private sector group health plans, and the Department of Health and Human Services governs public sector health plans. Safety professionals should be aware that the U.S. Department of Labor provides the regulations and interpretations addressing disclosure and notification requirements. 

On behalf of its member companies as DU of chemicals, ETRMA provides GES as well as sector-specific information for registrants to carry out CSA for substances used within the tyre manufacturing industry. The formulation/industrial use of subject chemicals during the tyre manufacturing process, as well as their professional use and service lifecycle stages when used in tyres (articles), are identified in this document. 

The wholesale sector means services for trading, and selling new and used goods to retailers, industrial, commercial, institutional, and professional users, and includes sales to the wholesalers themselves. 

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