AT&T; LTE 6:31 PM O 32% × assignment-Ill.doc IEGR 406 Industrial Safety and Heal

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AT&T; LTE 6:31 PM O 32% × assignment-Ill.doc IEGR 406 Industrial Safety and Health Spring 2018 Assignment III Assigned: 02/28/2018 Due: 03/07/2018 Employees in a warehouse go to bins, retrieve materials needed to fill orders by hand, carry the materials to loading docks, load materials on customer's trucks. The employees are required to use PPE such as hard hats, gloves, steel-toed boots, back supports. During the summer, injury rates go up because the heat makes wearing the PPE uncomfortable. How would you describe what happened using Domino Theory? Epidemiological theory? Human Factors Theory? Behavioral theory? Open with Print

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Domino theory explains the accidents in an industry in a sequence of the workers due to conditions. This condition is an unsafe condition in the industry, where High-Temperature resistant apparel(personal protective equipment) should be used by the workers to avoid such problems.

Epidemiological theory studies Study causal relationships between environmental factors and the accident

These are the conditions which can be explained in a  "The occurrence of a preventable injury is the natural culmination of a series of events or circumstances which invariably occur in a fixed and logical order."

Humans Factor theory deals with the chain of events ultimately caused by the Inappropriate response of the industry by wearing PPE in excessive heat, rather replacing the PPE with HIgh Resistant PPE's.

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