Karma Construction Company Ltd.,( KCC) consults you for advice pertaining to two recent accidents suffered by its employees.

First, Quincy, a mason, was struck by a falling trowel while working on the construction of a school. The Construction Act requires that each entrant onto a construction site must be supplied with a hard hat. KCC had supplied hard hats in a sufficient quantity to cover its employees but there had been a visit from a Ministerial delegation that day and some of the hats had been borrowed to accommodate them. Quincy decided to work without a hat and was hit on the head by the trowel which fell from the pocket of a fellow workman on the scaffold above. Workmen had been instructed to keep all tools in their workbelts and not elsewhere.

Second, Randy, the firm's accountant, recently suffered a nervous breakdown. Randy had complained of overwork previously, even though he displayed no overt signs of stress. The assistant provided for him turned out to be ignorant of the most basic accounting principles and this served only to double Randy's workload. As a result, Randy's home life became affected and another source of stress. Last week, while trying to complete the company's accounts for the financial year, Randy, who was easily susceptible to stress by nature, suffered a nervous breakdown.

Advise Karma Construction Limited.