1. Could this accident have been prevented? If yes, how? If no, why not? Ramona McKenzie is on her way to work on a cloudy Monday morning when she gets the call on her cell phone that no human resources manager wants to receive: An employee has just been injured at her workplace.

While turning into the company driveway, Ramona sees an ambulance, the injured worker, and a number of other employees surrounding the injured worker.

Ramona parks her car, rushes over to where the employee is lying, and inquires about what happened.

The injured employee informs Ramona that she fell on the way into the building because no salt had been laid earlier in the morning to melt the ice on the park-ing lot. At this point, the ambulance takes the injured employee to the hospital and Ramona asks to speak to the plant manager in his office.

Shaken by everything that had occurred, Ramona asks the plant manager to find out why no salt had been put on the parking lot, as this wasthe norm after a signifi-cant snowfall.