Posted: April 13th, 2023
Identify the human, situational, and environmental factors
Introduction
Provide a brief summary of the case as found in the news article. Explain why the issue you have chosen is important to address.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1846030403745
Analysis
Identify the human, situational, and environmental factors (e.g. economic, legal, geographic) that contributed to the health and safety issue/concern.
• human factors: direct outcome of a decision made by an individual.
• he was ostracized at lunch by the co-workers
• enduring physical and verbal assaults, hearing insulting world every single day
• “worst trauma comes from inside the fire halls” —how his co-workers treated him
• “need fire hall survival instead of fire ground survival”
• job-related suicide
• situational factors:
• there is a “conformity effect” in which if most of the co-workers have an implicit discrimination against Chris Coy few others will follow the behavior.
• Group of people will walk away if he enters the room—racism is not that overt and blunt
• environmental factors:
• work environment is depressive, the supervisors and co-workers were not supportive