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    This document provides questions for a homework assignment about the video "A Dangerous Business" which shows dangerous conditions and management practices at McWane Foundries. Students are asked to comment on and answer 5 questions: 1) whether productivity overriding safety is justifiable, 2) if OSHA penalties are severe enough, 3) if top management should face prison time for willful violations resulting in death, 4) what an engineer in the plant should do if safety requests are denied, and 5) if McWane should move operations to Mexico for cheaper labor despite job losses in Texas.

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    IE 419 HW #6 A Dangerous Business

    (Ethics and Societal Concern)


    The videotape, "A Dangerous Business", shows the dangerous conditions and
    management practices existing in McWane Foundries. This will serve as good transition
    from productivity to safety and the need for OSHA. Comment on the situation by
    answering the following questions:
    1) Do you think management practices regarding productivity overriding worker safety
    are justifiable? Why or why not?
    2) Do you think OSHA safety regulations and penalties are severe enough if an employer
    wishes to disregard the laws?
    3) Should the penalties stop at mere fines or should someone in top management (e.g.
    plant manager) personally serve prison time for repeated, willful violations resulting in
    the death of one of his/her employees?
    4) If you were an industrial and/or safety engineer in a WcWane plant, what would you
    do, especially if repeated requests for money/authorization to make changes to the plant
    manager went unheeded?
    5) Now, a societal question: After all the investigations, WcWane is considering shutting
    down the Tyler, Texas, plant and moving it 300 miles south across the border into
    Mexico. This will move all the bad jobs away from OSHA investigations and also allow
    the company to get much cheaper labor costs ($.50/hr vs. $7.00/hr). Of course, this will
    take away 500 jobs from a fairly small and depressed town. What would you as, the
    industrial engineer, recommend? Why or why not?

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