An injury may be caused causing pain and inconvenience and perhaps requiring – medical treatment and expense Illness may result necessitating time away from the tour, delays to travel, – hospitalisation and associated annoyance, disruption, frustration and expense Death which will usually involve: – External investigation by authorities Anxiety for all involved Legal action accidents and injury to customers/tour group members often result in – employees and/or the employer being: Prosecuted under criminal law Sued civil law Damage to host enterprise in terms of: – Reputation Reduced levels of sales as a result of decreased return and referral business – Decreased profit as a result of money needing to be spent on legal action, repairs, – replacement and other mitigating action Disciplinary action taken against individual staff for non-compliance with job-related – requirements Job loss where: – Breaches are serious Breaches are ongoing/repeated. 1.5 Introduction All staff will have an individual scope of authority and responsibility in relation to workplace safety and security. This section defines of authority and responsibility’, explains why it is necessary for ‘scope employees to know their individual scope and gives examples of possible inclusions in relation to what may apply in this regard. Scope of authority and responsibility defined – of authority and responsibility’ is sometimes just referred to as: ‘Scope of authority’ ‘Scope of responsibility’ ‘Scope
An injury may be caused – causing pain and inconvenience and perhaps requiring medical treatment and expense Illness may result – necessitating time away from the tour, delays to travel, hospitalisation and associated annoyance, disruption, frustration and expense Death – which will usually involve: External investigation by authorities Anxiety for all involved Legal action – accidents and injury to customers/tour group members often result in employees and/or the employer being: Prosecuted under criminal law Sued civil law Damage to host enterprise – in terms of: Reputation Reduced levels of sales – as a result of decreased return and referral business Decreased profit – as a result of money needing to be spent on legal action, repairs, replacement and other mitigating action Disciplinary action – taken against individual staff for non-compliance with job-related requirements Job loss – where: Breaches are serious Breaches are ongoing/repeated. 1.5 Introduction All staff will have an individual scope of authority and responsibility in relation to workplace safety and security. This section defines ‘scope of authority and responsibility’, explains why it is necessary for employees to know their individual scope and gives examples of possible inclusions in relation to what may apply in this regard. Scope of authority and responsibility – defined ‘Scope of authority and responsibility’ is sometimes just referred to as: ‘Scope of authority’ ‘Scope of responsibility’
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