Assignment: Safety Audit

Purpose

Perform a safety audit of a workplace that includes hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control of physical, chemical and biological agents, and psychosocial hazards. Your instructor will provide further information on the audit placement. Provide your recommendations as a result of the audit.

Your safety audit report should not exceed 750 words.

Part -1:

Case Study - LOBLAW Companies LTD.

The Canadian food retailing sector had been growing at less than 1 percent a year, and in 2012 it was a $86 billion business. There are a number of competitors in this sector, including Sobeys, Metro, Costco Canada, Canada Safeway, and Walmart Canada. Loblaw Companies is Canada's largest food distributor with sales of more than $32 billion, 1,000 stores, and 136,000 employees. The organizational objectives were to control costs through e_fficiencies and differentiate its products (through private-label brands such as President's Choice, No Name, Organics PC, and Joe Fresh) and its stores (through 22 different brand banners such as Loblaw, Fortinos, No Frills, Provigo, Zehrs, Wholesale Club, and Atlantic Superstore). In 2009, it acquired T&T, the largest Asian foods chain, to capitalize on the growing ethnic food market. Loblaw wants to see sales growth of 5 percent a year. In 2013, it acquired Shoppers Drug Mart.

The largest threat to Loblaw's strategy is Walmart, the world's largest retailer. The latter has a growth strategy, opening hundreds of stores every year. Walmart arrived in Canada in 1994, by acquiring 122 Woolco stores. Walmart not only used size and scale to compete (as did other retailers) but also mastered the use of technology to drive costs down. For example, its centralized information system tracked the operations of 5000 stores worldwide, and linked them with about 30 000 suppliers, all in real time.

QUESTION

1. Conduct a SWOT analysis for Loblaw. As a group, assess the company against the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities contained in the SWOT matrix below.

Part -2:

1. Canada had never had a tennis player in the top ten rankings of the best players in the world. And yet, in 2014 Milos Raonic was ranked 6, Eugenie Bouchard was ranked 7, and Vasek Popsipil won doubles at Wimbledon. Was this just a lucky streak of tal-ented players emerging? Not at all. It was a plan, started ten years ago. First, Tennis Canada built two excellent tournament facilities: The Rexall Centre in Toronto and the liniprix Stadium in Montreal, generating more revenue and more sponsorships. Money available for player (talent) development soared from S4 million to S12 million. But other countries had even more money to spend on player develop¬ment. So the next steps were critical to the success. Tennis Canada established a national training centre in Montreal, recruited a coach who had coached top players in Europe, and selected only 10-12 adolescents who had demonstrated exceptional skills and motivation, who go to school in the morning, and then spend 5 hours training in the afternoon. They are supported extensively, with coaching sessions in Europe, and travel to tournaments around the world. And this new plan worked!

What are the important. behaviours for sports playeSin individual (not team) sports? 'What (HR) programs can he used to generate these behaviours?

2. Traditionally, Major League Baseball scouts chose players for their future potential, and selection decisions were made on gut instinct. Bill James studied baseball sta-tistics for three decades and developed a method called Sabermetrics (based on rig-orous statistical analysis) to determine a player's true value to the team. Sabennetrics is a process that analyzes past performance statistics (such as batting averages, earned run averages, bunting, stealing, getting on base, etc.) and links these to winning scores. These findings were not accepted until Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics put Sabermetrics into practice. Watch the biographical sports movie Moneyball (2011) and learn about this approach. Identify the key competencies/cap-abilities of players that Billy Beane sought. Did they support the competing strategy of the Oakland Athletics?