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1. What are the HR professional's strategic and operational roles in creating and sustaining a safe and healthy work environment?

2. What are the HR professional's responsibilities in the union organizing a collective bargaining process? Which of these are classified as operational roles and which are classified as strategic roles?

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1. What are the HR professional's strategic and operational roles in creating and sustaining a safe and healthy work environment? 



Strategically an HR professional must come up with concepts and rules to have a safe environment. An HR professional would have:

-An emergency plan that deals with natural disasters, terrorism, employee violence, intruders, hostage situations.
- A plan to meet or exceed OSHA requirements
- A plan to make sure all employees are being compensated fully for their time
-An evaluation to consider the workplace environment and safety, including ergonomics

Operationally an HR professional you would enforce these rules with checkpoints and measurements by:

- Communicating plans to employees and ...

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