In the report, the company discusses its workplace safety record, environmental performance and social contributions in detail.
To be sure, most global retailers have standards for workplace safety in the factories that make their clothes.
Administration officials will speak about the Affordable Care Act, workplace safety and health, and violence against women issues.
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This process would delay disciplinary actions used to protect workplace safety and drive up costs due to increased litigation.
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Activists saw it as the place where environmental, workplace safety, consumer products and other areas of regulation often stalled or died.
The subject of workplace safety and health is often a mutually beneficial topic that employers are willing to discuss with union representatives.
But OSHA, the federal overseer of workplace safety, tells a different story.
Employers are being urged to rethink workplace safety in the new year after statistics showed 18 workers in Wales lost their lives last year.
Mr O'Neill is obsessed with workplace safety and paperless offices.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulates workplace safety.
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Federal agencies collect enormous amounts of data about such diverse matters as automobile safety, air travel, air quality, workplace safety, drug safety, nutrition, crime, obesity, the employment market, and health care.
Marc Freedman, executive director of labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said he hadn't yet seen the bill but that the Chamber has generally opposed Democrats' ideas for improving workplace safety.
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But O'Neill refocused Alcoa on its core products, made a huge push for workplace safety, sold its corporate aircraft and hacked away at decades of hierarchy to help encourage ideas from the bottom up.
Now, you could, if you wished to, say that rising wages, better working conditions and greater workplace safety are all evidence of an increase in the ethics, or the ethical behaviour, of the employers.
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On workplace safety, his condemnation is justified.
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This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.
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The bad news: Workplace safety experts say the decline in fatalities was due in part to lower employment nationwide, particularly in the construction and manufacturing industries. (Construction-related deaths, still the highest among any profession on an absolute basis, dropped to 1, 178 from 1, 239.) Improved safety standards have helped stanch the bleeding, too, they say.
Nonsense, scoff workplace-safety experts (not to mention insurance companies).
She claimed that the accident happened because of the council's breach of workplace health and safety regulations.
In 2010 and 2011, complaints about alleged Hyatt worker-safety violations poured into the offices of the chief workplace regulator, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
From ensuring the safety of our workplace, to the cars we drive, to the food we eat and the medicines we take, we expect our government to watch out for us with sensible, practical regulations.
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And more than a third reported experiencing health and safety problems in the workplace - having to travel home alone late at night because employers did not provide transport was the most common complaint.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
And when men do work, it can recommend ways to increase safety (92% of workplace deaths are men).
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The CalChamber Board of Directors voted to oppose the measure because it would drive up costs and significantly undermine the ability of employers to protect the safety of all employees in the workplace.
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Only this week, a major debate began on stress in the workplace, an issue which has divided health and safety experts.
The Health and Safety Executive, which is conducting a huge survey into workplace stress to be published in early 2000, says preliminary results show one in five workers say they are "very" or "extremely" stressed at work.
And while poor factory safety doesn't necessarily equate to unsafe food, industry officials say workplace problems of any kind around food raise risks it will be contaminated during processing.
Miners continued their pressure, leading to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, marshalling public force to protect their health in the private workplace.
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