Absenteeism

2009-03-13T02:02:00.000-07:00

Workplace

Frequent absence from the workplace may be indicative of poor morale or of sick building syndrome. However, many employers have implemented absence policies which make no distinction between absences for genuine illness and absence for inappropriate reasons. One of these policies is the calculation of the Bradford factor, which only takes the total number and frequency of absences into account, not the kind of absence.
As a result, many employees feel obliged to come to work

while ill, and transmit communicable diseases to their co-workers. This leads to even greater absenteeism and reduced productivity among other workers who try to work while ill. Work forces often do excuse absenteeism caused by medical reasons if the worker supplies a doctor's note or other form of documentation. Sometimes, people choose not to show up for work and do not call in advance, which businesses may find to be unprofessional and inconsiderate. This is called a no call, no show.

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a combination of ailments (a syndrome) associated with an individual's place of work (office building) or residence. A 1984 World Health Organization report into the syndrome suggested up to 30% of new and remodelled buildings worldwide may be linked to symptoms of SBS. Most of the sick building syndrome is related to poor indoor air quality.

Sick building causes are frequently pinned down to flaws in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Other causes have been attributed to contaminants produced by outgassing of some types of building materials, volatile organic compounds, molds (see mold health issues), improper exhaust ventilation of light industrial chemicals used within, or fresh-air intake location / lack of adequate air filtration (see Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value).

Symptoms are often dealt with after-the-fact by boosting the overall turn-over rate of fresh air exchange with the outside air, but the new green building design goal should be to avoid most of the SBS problem sources in the first place, minimize the ongoing use of VOC cleaning compounds, and eliminate conditions that encourage allergenic, potentially-deadly mold growth.

An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. These pathogens are able to cause disease in animals and/or plants. Infectious pathologies are usually qualified as contagious diseases (also called communicable diseases) due to their potentiality of transmission from one person or species to another. Transmission of an infectious disease may occur through one or more of diverse pathways including physical contact with infected individuals. These infecting agents may also be transmitted through liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector-borne spread.

The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted to other hosts. An infection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.

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Duty and Obligation

2008-04-01T05:06:00.000-07:00

Antonio. Let us suppose that a boy named Antonio goes to a shop to buy rice. His mother has not the exact amount of money to give him, so Antonio says to the shop keeper, "I will pay for the rice tomorrow. "
Then, we say, he is under obligations to pay, or it is better than a thief, because he has taken something without paying for it. In other words, he has taken something which is not his.
Everyone in this world must give in return for what he takes. We must pay our bills, we must pay our debts just as Antonio must pay his debts. These are generosity for the kindness and generosity which we receive from others. If Antonio shares his lunch with a friend, it is the friend's duty to return the generosity by sharing his lunch some other day. This is called a social obligation or duty.

Our deepest duty. Our deepest duty is to our parents and to our country. We receives love and service from our parents every day of our lives. We must return it to them by loving and serving them. Our country gives us a thousand things which we take without ever saying," Than You." We are given school buildings, books, teachers and chance to receive education. All these these things cost the government millions of pesos. Unless we repay the government by working hard to become good, honest citizens, we are as bad as thieves who take money that dost not belong to them.

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Absenteeism

Duty and Obligation