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Explain the steps for conducting an accident investigation. What are the terms that should guide an accident investigation? What are some important things to remember while conducting an accident investigation?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

2.Explain the elements of the OSHA guidelines regarding workplace violence that can be adapted for use in construction companies. Choose a few of the elements and explain them in detail. Provide examples of using them at a construction worksite.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

3.Explain the differences between an accident and an incident. Give a real example of each that you might find on a construction worksite. How are they similar?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

4.How is the employer liable for workplace violence? Define the exclusivity provision, and analyze how this provision helps protect the employer from civil lawsuits that are associated with workplace violence.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length

You have just been hired as the safety manager for a demolition project, and have been asked to develop a plan and do an engineering survey. You do not have an engineering degree, but have over twenty years of experience with demolition projects. Why are you, or why are you not, qualified and considered a competent person under the OSHA Standard?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

2. Your company is building a new medical office building using the lift slab process. Describe four key elements of this process and the safety significance of the professional engineering.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

3.You are a safety manager for a civil contractor building new sewer lines for the city. Your company must excavate a trench 6′ deep and 12′ wide and install the concrete sewer pipe. What would be your first step in providing a safe work area? What would be the mechanics of a cave-in? What action would be necessary to prevent a cave-in?

Your response must be at least 500 words in length.

4.The OSHA Standard for Crane Operator Certification has recently been extended, including employer duty to ensure that crane operators are competent to operate a crane. Describe the key elements of the standard which determine a crane operator is competent. Also, include your own thoughts regarding operator testing.

Your response must be at least 500 words in length

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In Module 1, we investigated the ethics theories that create the foundation for our discussions in these first two modules. In addition, we explored our personal values and the impact these can have on conflicts and decision making. Ethical dilemmas require a mindful approach to reasoning. As discussed by Lampe and Engleman-Lampe (2012), “ethical intention manifests into ethical action through mindfully living each moment.” (p. 101).

To prepare for your discussion, please study the following article for a full understanding of mindfulness.

Lampe, M., & Engleman-Lampe, C. (2012). Mindfulness-based business ethics education. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 16(3), 99-111.

Considering the concept of mindfulness from the article, ethics theories from Chapters 3 through 6 of our text, and your results from the Rokeach Value Survey, address the following in your discussion:

How do your personal values interact with a mindful approach to ethical decision making?
In light of your personal values, which ethics theory best fits your personal view of ethical decision making? Why?
Evaluate how this information increases your understanding of your approach to ethical decision making and the impact this has on you when you’re faced with an ethical dilemma.

More detailed description of each value can be found in this pdf: Values- A necessary but neglected ingredient of motivation on the job. [PDF file size 6.7 MB]

For your discussion:

Identify your five guiding values and explain why those values are a priority for you.

Note: We often better understand the importance of our own values when we can clearly articulate why these are important to us.
Explain your use of these five values in your day-to-day decision making. Do these values guide your decisions or do you have a challenge in applying them? If you are experiencing a conflict with someone at work or in your personal life, what role might differing values have in that conflict? Do these values provide insight into your career? Why or why not?

Explore how a firm determines the optimal scale of a plant for a given rate of output and why this determination relates to longer-run strategies versus current operations. Also, discuss the differences between economies of scale and economies of scope and how firms can benefit from each.

Then, provide a specific company example of economics of scale or economics of scope and how it affects production and cost or how technology affects the inputs and costs. Conduct research and use specific examples

The essence of presentation is making yourself known, along with your ideas. There are at least two reasons to begin the planning of any presentation with a consideration of yourself. The first is that your knowledge of yourself and what you are thinking about provides a solid foundation for elaborating on your ideas and your topics. The second is that your constant self-assessment means that you can define and communicate your own feelings and beliefs about a topic from a deeper level of metacognition, or self-knowledge, and can therefore think more critically and objectively about your topic.

Before building a presentation, consider the types of things that you have done and the types of things that are important to you. These things will be woven into every presentation you give, whether formal or informal, large or small, and regardless of the topic. Here, you will think about yourself as a primary topic and reflect upon your own academic and professional goals. This approach to preparation will influence the ways in which you present in the future.

Part A

In paragraph form, answer the following questions that may affect how you think about presentations, your topics, and your audience:

What is your “story”? How would you summarize your life’s experiences?
How have those experiences, overall, shaped you as a professional? How have they shaped you as a university student?
What have you learned from your previous experiences in making formal or informal presentations to others?

Part B

For this part of the assignment, you will be preparing or updating your resume. Upon reflection of your answers in Part A, rethink your resume, and update it as appropriate to incorporate your experiences and goals. In addition, review your resume format. If you already have a template for your resume that works, that’s great.

If you would like to refresh your resume presentation, clickhere for a sample template.

Please submit your assignment as a single Word document, with your Part-A responses preceding your resume from Part B.

Beltway Shoe Company sells luxury leather shoes in the United States. The company monitors its shoe sales by collecting randomly chosen data from store locations throughout the country. They record original price, sale price, and number of days it takes to sell each unit. Each pair of shoes is classified as “Eastern Region” if it is sold in the Eastern part of the United States, or as “Western Region” if it is sold in the Western part of the country. Randomly chosen samples provided sales data for 50 Western Region and 50 Eastern Region pairs of shoes. The complete data set is in the file named Shoes, attached in Excel document

Managerial Report

Prepare a report (see below) that summarizes your assessment of the nature of the shoe market in each region. Be sure to include the following seven (7) items in your report.

Descriptive statistics (mean, median, range, and standard deviation) to summarize each of the three variables for the 50 Western Region shoes. Are there any outliers in the data set for any of the three variables? If there are any outliers in any category, please list them and state for which category they are an outlier. Describe which method you used to make your determination.
Descriptive statistics (mean, median, range, and standard deviation) to summarize each of the three variables for the 50 Eastern Region shoes. Are there any outliers in the data set for any of the three variables? If there are any outliers in any category, please list them and state for which category they are an outlier. Describe which method you used to make your determination.
Compare your summary results from #1 and #2. Discuss any specific statistical results that would help the Beltway Shoes Marketing Department understand the regional shoe market.
Develop a 90% confidence interval estimate of the population mean sales price and population mean number of days to sell for pairs of Beltway Shoes in the Eastern Region. Interpret your results.
Develop a 90% confidence interval estimate of the population mean sales price and population mean number of days to sell for pairs of Beltway Shoes in the Western Region. Interpret your results.
Assume a branch sales manager requested estimates of the mean selling price of Western Region shoes with a margin of error of $5 and the mean selling price of Eastern Region shoes with a margin of error of $4. Using 90% confidence, how large should the sample sizes be for each?
A Western Region store manager just placed on display a pair of Beltway Shoes, with an original price of $120. Also, an Eastern Region store manager just placed on display a pair of Beltway Shoes, with an original price of $125. For each pair of shoes, what is your estimate of the final selling price (based on the percent difference for the sale and list price) and number of days required to sell each of these units?

Write a report, you should have in-text citations and a reference page.

Your report must contain following:

A title page in APA style.
An introduction that summarizes the problem.
The body of the paper should answer the questions posed in the problem by communicating the results of your analysis. Include results of calculations, as well as charts and graphs, where appropriate.
A conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis

Assignment 1: Discussion Question

Valuation of a firm’s financial assets is said to be based on what is expected in the future, in terms of the future performance of the firm, the industry, and the economy. What types of value would you consider when assigning “value” to a firm’s stock or bond? What is the significance of each of the different types of value in the valuation process? Use examples to support your response.

By Saturday, January 9, 2016, respond to the assigned discussion question. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the sameDiscussion Area to comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions by the end of the week. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

To respond to an existing posting use the Respond link beneath it.

Discussion Question

James is an African American heterosexual male who is also a counselor at a community mental-health center. Though James does not outwardly reject others with different sexual orientations, he is not empathetic toward people struggling with sexual identity issues. James feels that homosexuality is morally wrong and against his religious beliefs. However, James understands that as a counselor he must not discriminate against anyone – including sexual minorities. Clarence, a new client, has revealed that he is homosexual and is having difficulty admitting his sexual orientation to his family and others close to him. Clarence has also states he fears being rejected by his church congregation. He states that being abandoned by the church would further “shame his family” but admits that he cannot keep his life a secret anymore. He wants James’s help to embrace his homosexuality and live without shame.

For James to genuinely help Clarence, what issues does James need to address at a personal level to refrain from being judgmental of Clarence?

Is it possible for James to be objective enough to help Clarence work toward his goals? Why or why not

Research the literature on sleep disorders and sleep deprivation, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, and types of sleep disorders.

Select three sleep disorders to evaluate, including insomnia and sleep apnea.

Develop a 5 -slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation describing the following: No Introduction/ summary needed

• The causes and characteristics of the selected disorders
• APA Format Cites and Speaker Notes

Select three sleep disorders to evaluate, including insomnia and sleep apnea.

Develop a 5 -slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation describing the following: No Introduction/ summary needed

The causes and characteristics of the selected disorders
APA Format Cites and Speaker Notes