Physical Property Risks
Physical damage caused to property by fire, flooding and the normal deterioration of property due to weather changes is a risk that GSU property owners face. Due to climate change and unprecedented global warming, flooding and weather changes are an expected phenomena. Flooding and weather changes pose both direct and indirect risk exposure to the University. A direct risk associated with flooding is water sipping into the premises and damaging the property inside causing financial implications to the institution due to replacement of the property. Workers and students are also unable to access the University premises due to flooding. This causes an indirect financial loss to the University and the country as a whole
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In this particular Article, Pike states that indirect infringement is a risk faced by the University as demonstrated by the copyright infringement lawsuit against Georgia State University. In this particular lawsuit, the University was charged with directly infringing copyright through those web and e reserve services with both vicarious and contributory infringement. The vicarious claim was based on the employer-employee relationship between The University and staff members who were copying materials. The contributory claim was that GSU encouraged and induced faculty and staff to do illegal copying. GSU claimed that any copying done was a fair use however, it also denied that it was directly, vicariously, liable for the acts of staff and faculty. A court agreed that GSU's administration was not directly liable; the copying had been done by faculty and staff members. The court also found that GSU was not vicariously liable, even though it employed faculty and staff who did the copying that may have been illegal; GSU did not profit from the copying. On the issue of contributory liability, the court felt that while GSU was not specifically encouraging or inducing faculty and staff to violate copyright-GSU had policies that said only fair use copying should be done-the court wasn't certain about these policies in practice. (PIKE, 2011)
This case shows that the University is directly involved with
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The pillars of Human Resource activities that involve the institution include Compensation and benefits, Hiring, Occupational Health and Safety, Employee supervision and Employee conduct. Several risks are associated with these particular activities. Financial abuse is a risk attached to compensation and benefits obligation of the institution. Employees are bond to abuse this particular benefit if a risk analysis is not taken into consideration.
Discriminatory practices, hiring unsuitable or unsafe candidates, and wrongful hiring are risks associated with the hiring of employees who work for the institution. This particular risk is important to the institution as its reputation is also at stake. The Human resource policies of the institution should be able to address this particular area effectively to ensure human rights laws are observed. Environmental and Personal injury or death relate to occupational health and safety. Safe working conditions should be provided to the employees Safety checks and clothing should also be available to the employees suitable to the kind of work they undertake in the
This paper will show how the facility will continue to stay abreast of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) standards. The paper will also take a look at the activities and the frequency of training and audits that the hospital will conduct throughout the year. This paper will address the possibility of the fines the hospital has received and what causes the fines. The OSHA is an organization that provides a safe work environment for all staff members.
If anything is held to the highest value in any array of schools, it is a policy against plagiarism. Academics understand the severity that plagiarism can hold, especially since many of them tend to do it to each other. In 2005, Melissa Elias, who was at the time the President of the Madison School Board, gave a commencement speech that had several sections that were plagiarized from a speech Anna Quindlen, a Pulitzer Prize winner author, had given to Mount Holyoke in 1999. Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard University Sophomore, had published a book with several portions of copied from works of four different authors. Individuals held at high academic expectations committed both of these incidents, one being the president of a school and the other being a student of an Ivy League University. However, despite their valor in academia they both plagiarized, the only difference being that Viswanathan was getting royalties for her act of plagiarism. One has to question whether there really is a difference between these two cases, because both individuals clearly intentionally plagiarized. When handling cases of plagiarism one has to be extremely cautious due to the various degrees of plagiarism that depend on the individual’s intentionality and regards to profit.
In a world of free information and easy-to-acquire resources, stealing another person’s work has become incredibly simple. This problem has taken several different forms over the years. Julie J.C.H Ryan shares her thoughts about a common type of information stealing in the essay “Student Plagiarism in an Online World”. Another article, “Bootleg Culture” by Pete Rojas, goes into detail about illegal copying in the music industry. Although these essays have several similarities, they also have many differences.
They show their view of plagiarism clearly in their documents through the use of terms such as “without hesitation” and “will not be tolerated” (Student code of conduct and discipline, 2015, p. 6; 9. Academic Honesty, n.d.). Many college students try to find out the ways how to avoid being accused of committing a serious academic offence as much as they can. Putting their own name on someone else’s works and getting good grades, some of them might succeed cleverly, but it is nothing but dishonesty. Both colleges warn students the consequences of plagiarism strongly, saying it can bring negative
Section 8 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act (2005) puts the onus on the employer to ensure systems of work that are planned, organised, performed, maintained and revised as appropriate so as to be, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risk to health. Section 19 of the Act requires the employer to conduct a risk assessment of work activities and Schedule 3 of the Act provides the general principles of prevention to ensure the safety of employees in the workplace.
The safety measures now is strict and are regulated through the legislation act of health and safety benefits under the specific laws governed by the state and the employers are bound to follow them in order to ensure the safety and risk management to the employees in the coal mining sector.US has the proper safety and health regulation and the companies are legislated to follow the laws along with reporting and monitoring of the risk management team data’s to be worked out by higher officials giving prime importance to it. The ethics behind the imputation of proper risk management and safety guarantee makes the organizations free from unnecessary hazards and cost. This method also makes the turnover rate low for the employees as they are satisfied to work in the safe and risk free
When talking about my own work place, generally the risk issues rise due to the following:
It does not necessarily limit to schools and academic institutions, and it is a serious problem nowadays. Others’ properties are taken blatantly without any acknowledgement and credit. The first and most recognized type of plagiarism is academic plagiarism, in which students used the contents invented by others and the intellectual properties with none of any acknowledgement of the credits, or citing the works properly. According to a research by professor Donald McCabe of Rutgers University in 2005, thirty-six percent of undergraduates were reported to admit that they paraphrased and copied a few sentences from internet sources without footnoting it. In academic plagiarism, there is a direct plagiarism in which students copy the section of someone else’s work words by words with none of attributions and quotation marks.
Employers negligent in providing health and safety in the work environment could become criminally charged, fined or sent to jail. Providing an unsafe workplace is no longer considered just as morally unjust, but an act of crime. Health and safety in the workplace has become more encompassing and broader, accepting new causes and problems that influence occupational health and safety. Health is no longer just defined as wellness of the physical body, but also wellness of the mind. Mental health is considered an area of workplace safety.
According to our textbook Human Resource Management (HRM) is the policies, practices, and systems that influence employees’ behavior, attitudes, and performance. “The human resources management process involves planning for, attracting, developing, and retaining employees as the HRM planning provides the rights kinds of people, in the right quantity, with the right skills, at the right time (Lussier, 2012, p. 240).” According to our textbook the typical responsibilities of the Human Resources department fall into three categories, and they are administrative services and transaction, which handle hiring employees. The second involves business partner services that focus on attracting, evolving, retaining employees by having a clear understanding
Employee rights are very important in the workplace (Rakoczy, C. n.d.). There are some laws to protect employee rights, such as safe working environment, discrimination and overtime pay rates, to ensure every employee is treated fairly. All employees have the right to work in a safe and healthy workplace. In some industries, they use the high-voltage of electricity, extreme temperature, the high-speed and noisy machines in their workplace which can potentially threaten employee health and safety. A safe and healthy workplace must provide a reasonable daily and weekly job schedule to the employees.
Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement are two terms that mean different things yet are routinely mentioned as synonyms for each other. This is not the case. The underlying reasoning for people who choose to plagiarize and infringe on copyrights involve some of the same ethics and morals, but from a legal standpoint these terms mean different things. This paper will point out the similarities and differences between the two terms. It will first give some meaning and perspective behind each term then it will go into the details of what each term means. It will point out the types of plagiarism that routinely show in academia and what is covered under Copyright law protection. It will go on to compare and contrast the two concepts.
Chemical and fire hazards in the workplace cause serious injuries that in most cases are fatal.
What could possibly happen to someone that plagiarized or did the act of copyright infringement here at State College? During the first few days of every semester the professors campus wide go over the syllabus and tell the students about the academic honesty policy. When dealing with school work Copyright infringement doesn't really have to be focused on as heavily as plagiarism. If the student is not ca...
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