Sentences with phrase «risk of workplace»

Temporary workers and vendors coming on premises have access to company property and can still create a risk of workplace violence, theft, or embezzlement.

If so, then employers will finally be able to take effective steps in the workplace to eradicate drug and alcohol abuse which elevates the risk of workplace injury and death, drug dealing in the workplace and other drug and alcohol - related problems.

While those industries can provide rewarding jobs and careers to the region, they also carry a high risk of workplace accidents.

While completely preventing discrimination can be a challenge, there are several steps your company can take to help minimize the risk of workplace discrimination.

Bill 168, which came into force in 2010, created an obligation for employers to proactively assess the risk of workplace violence and harassment, as well as develop policies and procedures for investigating and handling complaints and incidents.

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In my field — mental health — clinicians are at even greater risk of workplace violence.

One of the companies using this technology emphasized that it can help reduce stress and the risk of workplace injury for workers, but there's also a huge business incentive.

We will be keen to actively contribute to this consultation, including highlighting the risks of a workplace ISA replacing pensions.»

In order to give real effect to an employer's obligation to minimize or eliminate risks of workplace violence, the program that the employer must develop and maintain to implement workplace violence policy must be more than merely recording these measures and procedures in writing.

An employer's best defence to the liability risks of workplace sexual harassment is preventing it from happening in the first place.

Here's a five - step risk mitigation plan to help employers minimize the growing legal, financial liability and business risks of workplace sexual harassment.

What are we doing to promote positive mental health, and to reduce the risks of our workplaces making people ill?

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With 90 per cent of Australians at risk of developing a chronic disease and the workplace being where most of us spend up to half our waking hours, it's only right employers become drivers of change.

The clear fact, though, is that middle and higher earners without access to a pension from their workplace are at strong risk of reaching retirement with inadequate income set aside.

«It creates workplaces where taking chances and being creative while risking failure is subsumed by an ethos of mistake - prevention at the cost of daring and innovation.

Profanity is common in some environments, but in the workplace, it brings a number of risks.

One 20 - year study of workplace environments found that those cultures that lacked supportive relationships increased the risk of mortality by 240 percent, which makes sense when you consider that chronic stress is a leading contributor to premature death.

«What they're asking employers to do, among other things, is look at your risk factors and see where your problems are,» says Nellie Brown, the director of Workplace Health & Safety Programs at Cornell University's school of Industrial Labor Relations.

In a workplace where EQ components are evident, co-workers have high levels of trust in each other, so they feel secure in taking risks, sharing ideas and finding creative ways to solve problems.

And despite lessons learned from the economic crisis — where, arguably, too many extroverted risk - takers in leadership positions wrought financial ruin — and the value of having quiet leaders who, as Good to Great author Jim Collins puts it, «build not their own egos but the institutions they run,» a workplace stigma around introversion still exists.

What precautions and consequences do you have in place to lower the risk of sexual harassment in the workplace?

In Sweden, for example, a seminal review in 2004 of 1,500 workplaces and 37,000 employees found that the risk of divorce was lower by half among spouses who worked together.

Only one - quarter of BYOD employees surveyed had an idea of the risk involved, and one in three saw «no risk» in using their own devices in the workplace.

IT managers may find their fears justified, as the survey indicated employees who use their own devices in the workplace are unaware of the security risk they could pose to the corporate network.

So do the increase in the mobility of saving and investment; the increase in the desired exposure to foreign assets (the reduction in home bias); the financial market innovation that allows for better diversification and risk sharing; and the differentials in the pace of technology adoption or workplace practices that give rise to varying productivity trends across countries.

Two workplaces — Port Everglades and an automobile lot — were also named as places of risk in the court records.

Research from a variety of sources reveals that middle earners without workplace pension coverage run a strong risk of arriving in retirement without enough income to sustain their lifestyle.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

Tens of millions of Americans lack access to workplace retirement plans, leaving them at - risk of not meeting their financial...

Perhaps if more Christians did their corporal acts of mercy in secular humanitarian institutions, or if we practiced Gospel ethics in the workplace even though it put a promotion or even our job at risk, the influence of the Gospel would be more widely spread.

I have done in lectures, even the postgraduate ones that were being paid for by the workplace at the risk of it being fed back to my employers, but I blame Saturday lectures for that.

• Breastmilk protects babies from illness and can also reduce the risk of Type 1 diabetes, childhood leukemia and other serious illnesses, as well as lowering the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); • Breastfeeding is healthy for moms, including lowering their risk of Type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and postpartum depression; • Breastfeeding saves families money on the cost of formula and illness; and • Breastfeeding saves insurers and employers (including the military) money on the expenses of medical care and lost workplace productivity (both due to infant illness).

There has been a 60 % reduction in tribunal claims relating to racial and sexual orientation, highlighting once again how this measure causes harm to groups who are most at risk of discrimination in the workplace.

Workplaces with a higher percentage of female employees exhibit less of a tendency for excessive risk taking, so companies should introduce quotas to correct this.

With widespread consensus about the necessity of workplace pensions, the Mayor risks going against the grain by removing access for Assembly members.»

Given the risks involved, international students and postdocs experiencing workplace conflicts may want to start with services that ensure confidentiality, such as the ombudsman office, says Margaret Hellwarth, an international scholar adviser at the University of California, Davis.

«Overweight / obesity are just one of several modifiable risk factors in the workplace — but ones that are most problematic right now because they're getting worse by the minute,» commented Ron Goetzel, Ph.D. of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Truven Health Analytics.

WORKPLACE exposure to electromagnetic fields is associated with a higher risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Using ergonomically designed furniture and equipment to protect the body from injury at home and in the workplace may reduce the risk of back injury.

The workplace also exhibits this demographic shift, with the additional risk of complications should a workplace relationship break down.

Three years ago, The Guardians of the Galaxy was considered the first big risk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, completely removed from the rest of the Avengers on other planets with characters even avid comic book readers weren't overly familiar with, all led by an actor who was primarily known as the chubby goofball on an NBC workplace sitcom.

Millions of employees in the UK and other parts of the world face many risks to their health in their workplace.

Issues for discussion can include: the development of the specification and the tender process; the separation of the refurbishment area from the remainder of the school; the use of low voltage / battery pack hand tools; COSHH assessments and why they are required when using hazardous substances; hazard spotting and the need for good housekeeping; safeguarding and use of mobile phones on site; working at height as the largest cause of workplace accidental death; noise and the potential for hearing loss, methods of communication; and any other relevant hazard and risk control.

Instead of sending them into the workplace and running the risk of compliance violations, you can identify issues early on.

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

5 Steps to Risk Assessment helps employers assess their workplace health and safety risks with a minimum of fuss by presenting five key steps, as advised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Assess substances By law, employers are required to assess the risk of substances used within a workplace under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002.

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