The Chesapeake Chicken plant employs 5,000 workers. ?

Question

The Chesapeake Chicken plant employs 5,000 workers. People come from all over the country to work at this plant. Chesapeake is known for hiring illegal aliens to work at the plant, but this has never been proven.

You have been hired by Chesapeake Chicken and work in the Health and Safety Department. You've noticed that accident reports have increased from 25 annually to 200. During your investigation, you discover that machinery is broken and/or is not working properly. In some cases there are no safety guards. During interviews, you learn that workers have been afraid to report these problems for fear they would not make production quotas, or that they might be terminated. You also find out that some workers who were hurt did not document their accidents and continued working regardless of the accident.

What kind of checks and balances can an internal Health and Safety Division put in place in order to prevent this from happening again?

Answer 1

Might want to find out just how thorough they want you to be at your job....some companies just want to say they have someone in the position. But any way send memos stating your assessment of the facility and include your recommendations and how this will effect the reduction of accidents.  which we all know will increase profits and what boss wouldn't like that.  You might want to suggest an emergency action team that would include safety monitors who would report to you unsafe conditions.  You would then investigate, etc.