Historical Aspects of OSH
Throughout history, there have been several workplace tragedies that helped to shape the field of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as we know it today. For this assignment, you will choose one significant workplace tragedy.
To complete the assignment, you will need to address the following items:
- Summarize the tragedy selected and how this event helped to improve workplace safety and health today.
- Compare and contrast the safety and health regulatory environment existing at the time of the tragedy with that of the current day.
- Identify existing OSH regulatory and/or consensus standards that have likely helped to prevent a recurrence of the tragic event.
- Your paper should be at least two pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
- A minimum of two sources must be used
- Your paper must be in APA style format.
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This is the disciplinary field concerned with the health, safety, and warfare of the employees in an organization. The main objective of this field is to ensure that the working environment of the worker is conducive and free from any health hazards. The resolution of the disciplinary measures has been taken into consideration as a result of the occurrence of major tragedies that have seen the organization and key industries lose their resource and many lives lost in the tragedy. One of the major tragedies that took place and saw the shipping industry improve was the tragedy of Titanic the unsinkable ship.
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