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05.07.2019 • 
Chemistry

The videotape, "a dangerous business", shows the dangerous conditions and management practices existing in mewane foundries. this will serve as good transition from productivity to safety and the need for osha. comment on the situation by answering the following questions: 1) do you think management practices regarding productivity overriding worker safety are justifiable? why or why not? 2) do you think osha safety regulations and penalties are severe enough if an employer wishes to disregard the laws? 3) should the penalties stop at mere fines or should someone in top management (e.g plant manager) personally serve prison time for repeated, willful violations resulting in the death of one of his/her employees? 4) if you were an industrial and/or safety engineer in a mc wane plant, what would you do, especially if repeated requests for money/authorization to make changes to the plant manager went unheeded? 5) now, a societal question: after all the investigations, mcwane is considering shutting down the tyler, texas, plant and moving it 300 miles south across the border into mexico. this will move all the bad jobs away from osha investigations and also allow the company to get much cheaper labor costs (s.50/hr vs. $7.00/hr). of course, this will take away 500 jobs from a fairly small and depressed town. what would you as, the industrial engineer, recommend? why or why not?

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