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Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against an available reference sources and best practice information.

Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization, or an

Organization with which you are familiar and have access to the required information:

SAFETY MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM ELEMENTS

ANSI/AIHA Z10

Below you will find some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:

  1. Organizational safety manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses
  • Records: E-mails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records.
  • Interviews: Management personnel, supervisors, and employees
  • Observation: Walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.
  1. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find). Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against an available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:
  • World Class: OHS performance
  • Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans
  • Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place
  • Significant Non-Conformances Exist: Still needs focus
  • Major Effort Required: Major or systemic non-conformances exist

Appropriate references include the course textbook, textbooks from other college level courses, ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012, other published consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and voluntary guidelines, and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have any questions about the appropriateness of a reference source.

  1. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.
  2. Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management system.

The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of five professional references sources must be used

Examine the current legal and regulatory requirements that are present in this situation.

Assignment 2: (RA): Ethical Dilemma in Child Placement Scenario

The responsibilities of human services workers extend beyond providing direct care to clients to solve interpersonal problems, improve their access to basic needs, and offer support during difficult times in their lives. Human services workers also have to consider the ethical, legal, and moral implications of their decisions in their everyday work.

In this assignment, you will read a scenario to analyze the ethical theories, identify legal and ethical options and issues, and recommend a proper course of action.

Scenario:

You are employed at a human services agency where a part of your duties includes finding temporary placement for three clients (children aged 5–12) over the holidays. You were unable to find placement for one of the children, a victim of sexual abuse. The options available to you are to either leave the child at the agency or take him home with you.

Tasks:

Analyze the scenario above and in a 5- to 6-page report, identify the legal and ethical ramifications of your options, recommending a course of action. Make sure to complete the following:

  • Examine the current legal and regulatory requirements that are present in this situation.
  • Evaluate the legal, professional, and personal risks associated with both options.
  • Explain the ethical implications of both options.
  • Identify and justify a specific course of action. Make sure to support your decision with references to specific ethical theories and frameworks.

Use resources from professional literature in your research. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Why ethics is important in public speaking and how you measured the success of your persuasive effort.

Write at least three entries, of at least 350 words each, in your blog that focus on your ideas for future technologies to be used in presentations and on the use of social media in presentations.

Post the link to your blog.

 

Develop a 10-minute persuasive presentation on an information technology topic you strongly support. Select a topic provided by your instructor, or submit your own idea for approval. Examples include the following:

  • Educational merits of video games
  • Challenges of a paperless office
  • Organizational effectiveness of telecommuting
  • The virtual workplace

Incorporate a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation or another form of media.

Write a preparation outline.

  • Your delivery will be extemporaneous, using a speaking outline. This presentation requires considerable research and skillful use of persuasion methods. Special emphasis must be provided to evidence and reasoning. This assignment stresses audience analysis and adaptation.
  • Follow Monroe’s Motivated Sequence in Ch. 14 of Public Speaking, and include a measurable final action step in your presentation.

The last two minutes of your speech should include an explanation of why ethics is important in public speaking and how you measured the success of your persuasive effort.

Is Evolution True?Discuss.

Is Evolution True?  A 10 page Critique and personal Essay on Coyne text “Why Evolution Is True”

 

Essay should reflect upon each of the themes in the chapters in Coynes’ book.  Your essay should include reflections on your growing understanding of Evolution.  Your essay should be a record of your personal journey through the discovery of the concepts used to describe the theory of evolution.  Here you can include your reflections on philosophical, theological, and sociological points that reflect your views on evolution.  Additionally, you should critique and evaluate the ideas presented in the book in a way that demonstrates a scientific understanding of the progressions learned in class that occurs during evolution. Also, watch the NOVA video (found on YouTube) Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial (creationism vs evolution) and relate it to your views on evolution or relate it to what the book says about evolution.

What is meant by a local Web server? Use an example that explains a local Web server to someone who does not know anything about local Web servers.

 2-page Word document, APA format (excludes APA cover page and abstract; include reference page as applicable)

For your assignment, answer the following questions. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic IT articles or real-life IT findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used to support your answers.

  • What is meant by a local Web server? Use an example that explains a local Web server to someone who does not know anything about local Web servers.
  • What are the advantages of a Web server?
  • · What other Internet services besides Web are valuable tools? Why?
  • How would the implementation of an internal Web server occur?
  • What would be the plan to make sure the Web server is working?

Adhere to APA formatting and reference guidelines when writing your response. Additionally, your response should be free of grammatical errors, use complete sentences, and give specific details to support statements.

Describe the ultimate goal of the product campaign for the new shampoo.

Prepare a 2-3 page paper in Microsoft Word to address the following:

  • Describe the ultimate goal of the product campaign for the new shampoo.
  • Discuss your methods for achieving this goal.
  • Identify the components of marketing, pricing, and distribution for the campaign.
  • Include in your response a discussion and analysis of the concepts of utility, price elasticity, and demand.

Assignment Guidelines, Part 2

Using Microsoft Excel:

  • Prepare a graph which illustrates the desired effect of the marketing campaign as a shift in market equilibrium with reference to price and quantity adjustments.
  • Prepare another graph to illustrate how a change in consumer utility affects the price elasticity of demand.
  • Copy and paste or import these graphs into the MS Word document you prepared in Part 1 of this assignment.

(Tutorials for working with MS Excel and MS Word can be found through theTutoring Services and Tutorials link at the top of the page.)

Remember, quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books, articles, or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources can be found through

Discuss how you can improve your health and longevity in light of your findings in these questionnaires, your understanding of epigenetics, and your knowledge of your family history.

The Reaction Paper Assignment You will be writing a 1,000 word Reaction Paper in this course using the instructions and links found below. You will be completing the following tasks and gathering the following information for your paper: 1. Watch the epigenetics video from PBS. Begin your paper by defining epigenetics in your own words and discussing your reaction to the video. 2. Research and locate one article on epigenetics (select a study on research conducted on humans, not plants or insects) from a reputable academic source: Reputable Sources: • journal articles • government publications based on research Do not use: • magazines of any sort, printed or online • Wikipedia 3. Read the epigenetics article you find. Continue your paper with a discussion of the epigenetics article. Be sure to paraphrase (put things in your own words) and be sure to cite the author(s) of the article you find using APA style (see the section below on using APA style). Aim for about a page for this part of your paper. 4. Complete the Family History-Dr. Oz.pdf. Discuss the concept of epigenesis in light of your family history. Aim for one page for this section of your paper. 5. Complete the BlueZones.com Vitality Compass Life Expectancy Questionnaire. From the BlueZones home page, click on Live Longer and then on Vitality Compass. Print the report and integrate your findings into your discussion. Aim for another page. You do not have to attach the report to the paper. 6. Discuss how you can improve your health and longevity in light of your findings in these questionnaires, your understanding of epigenetics, and your knowledge of your family history. This should be your final page. You can go over or under a page for any of the sections of the paper as long as your total paper is 1,000 words not counting the references. General Rules for an “A” Paper • 1,000 words • Original work; plagiarism score of less than 10% (90% original work) • Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins • Covers all 6 tasks • Spellchecked • College-level grammar • Cite your article APA style. • No abstract, no cover • Place your name and reference number on the first page. Use page numbers.