NO PLAGIARISM, WRITING MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. This assignment needs to be very detailed and is focused on occupational health and saftey in Canada.
This assignment aims to encourage students to
stay up to date on relevant OHS issues covered by the media. For this purpose,
select an incident relevant to OHS issues in Canada (Preferably Ontario),
covered by print/online news media within the last five years. Write a maximum
2500 words report that provides the following: 1) a summary of a health and
safety incident that was reported on in print/online media. 2) an analysis of
the relevant health and safety legislation and 3) a conclusion about how this
event could have been avoided and what safety measures should be in place to
prevent it in the future. Attach or imbed the article/video in your report.
OHS reports are graded based on the following
criteria
Summary: Is the summary of the incident clear
and provided in students’ own words? Does the summary clarify the severity and
importance of the incidents concerning its moral and economic consequences for
the company, community, and society? Is the context of the incident clearly
described in terms of industry, province, time frame, workers affected, and so
forth? (30%)
Relevant O&S legislation: Are relevant OH&S
legislations identified and discussed in the context of the incident? (20%)
Conclusion: Are the suggestions about how the incident
could have been avoided informed by the legislation and models and methods
discussed in this course? At least two suggestions should be provided. The key
is to explain why and whether the suggested interventions could have been
effective in avoiding the incident. The suggestions should be convincing and practical
and make sense to the reader (40%)
Grammar and mechanics: Is the analysis free of severe
and distracting grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors? Are all the
sources correctly cited according to the requirements of the APA referencing
style? (10%)