Explain How Health and Safety Issues at a Workplace Cannot Be an Ideal

Explain how health and safety issues at a workplace cannot be an ideal.

Health and safety is a fundamental onus that employers should have for their workers. One might say it is a right for employees to have the assurance that their health and safety will be taken care off by their employers while they are on the job. It is not however, always that straightforward.

Health and safety are tangible goods and as such are regarded as having a purposeful role in the work environment. But what does that really mean? Inherently the paradigm of 100% healthy workers and 100% safe workplace is a misnomer, as realistically that ideal cannot be achieved.

Inasmuch as the scope of a comprehensive health and safety policy accomplishes in the workplace, it would still be impractical for employees to expect the entitlement to the right to health and safety in their place of work. Rather the functionality of a health and safety policy should center on what is attainable, such as; risk prevention within the scope of what is considered tolerable risk.

Discuss the nuances associated with drug testing, and outline the arguments for and against it.

Arbitrary testing of employees for drug use is controversial for several reasons. Many feel the practice to be an invasion of privacy and somewhat degrading. It is often argued that drug testing lowers the morale of workers and thus the productivity. That being said drug-testing is a tool that both the public and private sectors are relying on more on frequently and is regarded as a growth industry within the United States.

Employers have a due process to uphold if they feel that an employee is showing up to work under the influence of illicit drugs which is consequently affecting their performance and so may randomly request a drug test. This approach while marginally biased, does respect the line between indiscriminate testing and a test purely based on individualized suspicion. On the other hand if employees are at work under the influence of drugs, does an employer have a blanket right to test employees at random?

The rationale of the Fourth Amendment prevents random searches of our homes based on a whim that they may or may not be illegal items in the home. So is it an abuse of authority in the workplace to arbitrarily drug test?

On the flip side this type of testing offers a deterrent, safety and liability, and so until such a time as other methods are devised to test for drugs, the status quo, in my opinion should remain.

What things does advertising do FOR consumers?  What does advertising do TO consumers?  In what ways has advertising done anything for/to you?

A great proportion of advertising is based on manipulation; manipulation can at times be deceptive.

The definitive goal for a business is to make a sale, in other words to market their goods/services so that an eventual transactional exchange occurs between the business and the consumer. From the corporate world to the most unobtrusive nonprofit organization, advertising is the means to an end – the sale!

Advertising can have a feel good effect on consumers. If one is influenced by an advertisement and ultimately purchases a good/service that they are happy with, where’s the harm especially if they made an autonomous informed choice? The problem is when unethical tactics are utilized to make that sale. Scare tactics may be used to advertise safety mechanisms to the elderly that they can use in their homes, such as portable alarm systems that usher the applicable help they need to their home in minutes.