Mariners Polytechnic Colleges Foundation

Rawis, Legaspi City

Humanity II
(Ethics)

Submitted by:
SANGGO, SEILFRED B.
MT3A1

Submitted to:
Mr. CASTILLO
Instructor

March 15, 2017

BASIC DUTIES OF WORKERS:

Workers must:

 take reasonable care for their own health and safety

 take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts
or omissions
 cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements
 not 'intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse' anything provided at the
workplace for OHS.

The Act also specifies that in determining whether a worker failed to take reasonable care,
'regard must be had to what the employee knew about the relevant circumstances'.

BASIC DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS:

1. The provision of competent co-workers.

For an employer to be liable under the competent co-workers heading, it must be shown that
he had reason to be aware that the co-worker was incompetent after he had hired him but that
he still continued to employ him.

For example:

 Employee not instructed in the safe operation of a consaw leading to injury.

 Poor training or instruction leading to one employee injuring another.

2. The provision of a safe place of work.

An employer owes a duty to ensure a reasonably safe place of work and to maintain the
premises in such a condition that it will not endanger the health or wellbeing of the
employee. It is not sufficient for the employer to show that the employee was aware of the
danger on the premises. In addition, employees who work ‘off site’ may be faced with unsafe
conditions for example, on the premises of a client / customer. The employer cannot be familiar
with all the circumstances in this instance and therefore cannot be held responsible, however,
in the event of injury, the worker would be in a position to sue the owner of that premises and
may well have a case against his or her employer.
For example:

 Poorly erected scaffolding leading to collapse or fall.

 Poorly ventilated workplace leading to respiratory injury.
 Wire trailing across a floor leading to trip.
 Fall on a defective stairs in the workplace.

3. The provision of proper equipment.

The duty to provide proper equipment and appliances extends to maintaining them in a proper
condition so as not to subject employees to unnecessary risks. The duty under this heading
covers two separate points:

1. Equipment supplied must be safe.

2. Equipment essential to the safety of the employee must be provided.

For example:

 All necessary safety equipment must be provided.

 Employees working in noisy areas must be provided with ear defenders.
 Those ear defenders must be adequate for the noise level in the workplace.

4. The provision of a safe system of work.

The provision of a safe system of work is a very wide topic and a suitably all embracing one
under which many claims are brought. The degree of safety would depend on the particular job
and would vary between wide limits. It is not sufficient for the worker to establish that the
employer was negligent, he must also show what actually caused the injury.

For example:

 A factory worker is obliged to perform a repetitive task on a production line without

adequate rest or rotation leading to repetitive strain injury in her shoulder.

Most accidents at work involve a combination of these 4 “faults”.

THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON

GENDER AWARENESS

Is an awareness of the differences in roles and relations between women and men. It recognizes that
the life experiences, expectations, and needs of women and men are different.

GENDER STEREOTYPING

Gender stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the gender attributes, differences, and roles of
individuals and/or groups. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but they rarely communicate
accurate information about others. When people automatically apply gender assumptions to others
regardless of evidence to the contrary, they are perpetuating gender stereotyping. Many people
recognize the dangers of gender stereotyping, yet continue to make these types of generalizations.

Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry and have children. She is also to put her family's
welfare before her own; be loving, compassionate, caring, nurturing, and sympathetic; and find time to
be sexy and feel beautiful. The male stereotypic role is to be the financial provider. He is also to be
assertive, competitive, independent, courageous, and career‐focused; hold his emotions in check; and
always initiate sex. These sorts of stereotypes can prove harmful; they can stifle individual expression
and creativity, as well as hinder personal and professional growth.

The weight of scientific evidence demonstrates that children learn gender stereotypes from adults. As
with gender roles, socializing agents—parents, teachers, peers, religious leaders, and the media—pass
along gender stereotypes from one generation to the next.

One approach to reexamining conventional gender roles and stereotypes is androgyny, which is the
blending of feminine and masculine attributes in the same individual. The androgyne, or androgynous
person, does not neatly fit into a female or male gender role; she or he can comfortably express the
qualities of both genders. Parents and other socializing agents can teach their children to be
androgynous, just as they can teach them to be gender‐biased.

Emerging as a powerful sociopolitical force beginning in the 1960s, the feminist movement, or women's
liberation movement, has lobbied for the rights of women and minorities. Feminists have fought hard to
challenge and redefine traditional stereotypic gender roles.