Unsafe practices 2013 5 people died due to neglect. The main one being a nurse/carer gave the wrong dosage of warfarin to a resident which resulted in the lady being hospitalized and her MAR charts being falsified to hide the mistake‚ as the carers knew that if the hospital had seen the original MAR charts would have resulted in a CQC inspection and possibly the home being shut down. Nurses would shut door when residents were shouting for help. That resident could have been shouting for any number
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people believe that working class families were unsafe in textile factories. These child labourers Were in these factories with over working and almost no food to eat‚ with no education‚ which is not safe. A House of Lords interview‚ during 1819‚ states “ The stated of the health of the cotton factory children is much worse than that of an unemployed one”. This is coming from a doctor‚ shows these kids were clearly in a sanitized and safe environment. So clearly some kids are working and some not is
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slaves to the industry and were subjected to low wages‚ poor living conditions‚ long hours‚ and poor working conditions. The extremely low salaries forced workers to stay working to try and provide necessary items for their families. Food ran scarce in families and cramped houses and tenement apartments had little light‚ hardly any fresh air‚ and awful plumbing and waste management. Workers were forced to live in these harsh conditions‚ because this was the only thing they could afford. Families forced
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I.R.? Introduction The government has made laws saying that employers have to look after the workforce and provide safety equipment and other things for them. Because of this working today is pretty safe. At the start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous indeed. Industries such as the cotton trade were mainly hard for workers to endure long hours of labor. The nature of the work being done meant that
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|Black women received half the wages the white women earned" (46-47). These| |Racial division of labor |statements about the tobacco industry describe the condition of many | | |African-Americans‚ especially those living in the south and west | |3. |Carpenters in Boston
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The living and working conditions in Australia‚ at the start of the century depended very much on which social class a person belonged to because the society followed ‘laissez-faire’ policies‚ that is‚ the government interfered little in economic affairs and left people to look after themselves. Therefore‚ between the rich and the poor there were enormous differences in living conditions such as education‚ health and hygiene and in particular leisure. For average Australians work was very laborious
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By the mid 1800s‚ machines began to take over the industrial economy. More and more machines began to be used to produce clothing‚ shoes‚ watches‚ guns‚ and farming supplies. The working conditions in the factories in the mid 1800s on the other hand‚ was very harsh and dangerous. It was very easy to get caught in a machine‚ and get badly injured. The average workday for employees was 11.4 hours a day. Not only was the machines moving at a rapid pace‚ but children that had to work‚ would end up getting
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started with the reign of queen Victoria which began in 1837-1901 and wasn’t a good period in history. The laws were very lenient‚ therefore causing the Victorian Era to have bad conditions like working struggles‚ making young children work‚ children not getting educated‚ rapid population growth‚ and dirty living conditions which brought lots of illnesses. To begin with‚ One of the reasons the Victorian Era was unpleasant was because of the population. When Victoria came to throne the empire expanded
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cities. Eventually‚ the Industrial revolution lead to the deterioration of working conditions for the poor. It is important to understand how the Industrial revolution shaped working conditions because the advancements that took place during this era lead to the current workplace laws and regulations. This paper will explore what made the industrial revolution such a dreary period for working class citizens‚ the working conditions labourers experienced‚ and the reason the government introduced the Factory
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The working (lower class) in Australia mainly lived closer to the city‚ squashed together in the slums. Some examples are in Sydney – Pyrmont‚ Redfern and Surry Hills and in Melbourne – Collingwood‚ Richmond‚ Port Melbourne and Footscray. They lived at the bottom of hills where flooding enabled water borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever to breed spread throughout communities. Families of 10 were squeezed into inadequately sized‚ poorly insulated‚ iron houses where they struggled to pay
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