NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
HRM 303 Human Resource Management
Dr. Naomi Rotter
Session 23: Occupational Safety & Health
Objectives
1. Describe the nature and extent of workplace safety and health problems
2. Discuss OSHA, enforcement options, and employer obligations
3. Understand varying models of accident behavior
4. Distinguish between engineering and management controls for solutions to safety
problems.
I. The nature and extent of health and safety problems
A. Statistics
B. Costs of health and safety problems
II. Government's Response to Workplace safety and health problems
A. Workers' compensation
1. State laws
2. Stress related awards
B. OSHA
1. Organization
2. Requirements and enforcement
3. Effectiveness
III. Models of Behavior and Safety programs
A. Accidents and models of behavior
1.Learning models
2. Cognitive models.
3. Personality models:
4. Life stress models
5. Biological models
B. Safety programs
1. An engineering approach
2. A management approach