What should workers know

In a mature facility the design team for a new building or an addition to an old building should seek input from the maintenance department. Maintenance workers know what equipment and material is difficult to maintain, and the standard in the existing facility employed in order to prevent stocking of many different replacement parts. 

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Most training is behavioral or learning objective driven. This could be viewed as the major goal in the motivational process. To achieve goals, you need to let workers know clearly what they are expected to do and precisely how you want them to accomplish their tasks. There should be an expected level of attainment, whether it be mastery or just to gain a certain amount of knowledge. To reinforce the expected skills, you should allow workers time to practice what they have learned. 

Management and Employee Cooperation. Before beginning to collect data, the cooperation of the managers involved, including the first line supervisor, and of the workers should be secured. Management needs to be informed so that they can be confident that surveillance activities will not upset production or lead to injuries. Workers need to know what the valuation means to them and how the results are to be reported. Everyone needs to know how the measurement is to be conducted so that the actual measurement causes as Htde dismption as possible. 

Disaster Planning. Plant managers should recogni2e the possibiHty of natural and industrial emergencies and should oversee formulation of a plan of action in case of disaster. The plan should be weU documented and be made known to all personnel critical to its implementation. Practice fire and explosion drills should be carried out to make sure that all personnel, ie, employees, visitors, constmction workers, contractors, vendors, etc, are accounted for, and that the participants know what to do in a major emergency. 

Students and workers should know what to do when emergencies occur, including escape routes, emergency phone numbers and phone calls, and the location and use of emergency equipment (e.g, alarms, eyewashes, showers, fire extinguishers, and spill kits). 

In any accident, the well-being of workers should be normally and morally the prime consideration. The effects of any accident can be minimized by providing emergency relief (rescue) in the shortest time possible to the victim. Normally, in an accident the person does not have time to consult any source unless he or she is previously trained and prepared for this event. In any plant each supervisor and worker should know where to call for, and how to rapidly obtain medical aid and what to do until it arrives. 

But the third man understands the goal of the project and may be able to contribute ideas on how to improve the road. The old wise Vizier replied, The third man knows what we are doing but not why it should be done. An even wiser worker would have said that the broader mission is to improve transportation of goods and people, which improves the quality of life for all our subject people. Our wisest worker would even consider whether flying carpets are better than roads to fulfill the mission. How few are those who understand the needs of the people and how to serve them ... 

Although the DSM-IV provides technical definitions of what constitutes the manic and the hypomanic episodes, it is helpful for the practitioner to know the kinds of symptoms that clients often present. In order to confirm the presence of a manic or hypomanic episode during the assessment process, the social worker should ask questions that will elicit information about the following areas ... 

All workers must know where to go and what to do when an accident happens. The laboratory CHP and RPP contain the emergency plan with which all laboratory workers must be familiar. In a serious accident, workers should respond in the following order unless a different protocol has been specified for the laboratory ... 

Workers compensation is Just such a system. It provides mandatory no-fault disability and death coverage for injuries and, to a lesser extent, illnesses arising on the job, financed entirely by employer contributions. To the extent that it is experience-rated, each employer s payment into the system is equal to the anticipated claims of his or her workers (tt c). All of the provisions of workers compensation are well-known in particular, workers can know with a high degree of certainty with what likelihood and to what extent they will be compensated in the event of an accident on the job. Thus the conventional economic view, predicated on the market determination of wages and working conditions, predicts that neither employers nor workers should care one way or another about the existence of the workers compensation system or the benefits it provides. 

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