Overview of the Workplace Approach to OHS

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OVERVIEW OF THE WORKPLACE APPROACH TO OHS
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Overview of the Workplace Approach to OHS
Over the last ten years, the Apple Company has grown to become one of the most
powerful companies in the world of technology and innovation spanning over generations and
cutting across continents and geographical locations. The Giant American tech company
represents innovation, creativity, and quality at its best. The company is prolifically known for
its novelty, regarding technological creation, unique product experiences, and designs. The
Apple Company has quickly grown to become one of the most sought after entities by both
consumers of her products and investors alike. The portfolios of these investors have well been
served by holding firm to the company. The company has had a fair share of negative media
publicity due to emergent issues that surround the company’s overseas assembly plant in China
that have been known to seek cheap child labor and at the same time subject the workers to tough
working and living conditions. Like any other technology company, the Apple Company has had
her fair share of the issues that touch on suppliers and management of resources. Despite the
gloom, though the company remains one of the most socially responsible businesses in the world
and this essay is an analysis of the same.
Overview of the Workplace and its Approaches to OHS
Apple Company is an American technology conglomerate that specializes in the creation,
design, and manufacture of technological tools like desktop computers, laptop computers,
smartphones, tablets, iPods and the sale of online computer services via subscription. The
company was founded by Ronald Wayne, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak in the year 1976 with
the sole purpose of selling and creating personal computers (Aggarwal, 2015). Steve Jobs is the
most popular of the founders for the pivotal role that he played in the starting of the company.
The Company was incorporated as Apple Computers Inc. in 1977. The company headquarters is

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in Cupertino, California. Other products under the belt of the company include the Apple smart
watch, Apple TV, software media player and a web browser (Aldrich et al., 2015). About
revenue, the Apple Company is the largest technology company of information, and it is the
largest technology company regarding total assets.
With a highly versatile mobile market, the technology industry remains one of the most
risky businesses to invest in yet one of the most rewarding at the same time. Several factors pit
the Apple Company at the top of the pyramid of the world leaders in computer manufacturers
and innovators (Alshubiri, 2015). The Company employs effective research into the needs of the
market, superior design, innovation, and marketing strategies to get their products to their
consumers. The use of effective research and innovation ensures that their consumers always
have something to look up to with every new launch (Ansari & Hasan, 2016). For a long time,
fans of personal computers enjoyed buying their parts and putting them together on their own.
Alshubiri (2015), posits that at the same time, makers of PCs were building standard hardware’s
and software to be assembled into Personal Computers. The Apple Company has taken the
design standards of the personal computer into an entire new level. The Company prides in
taking the ordinary and turning it into something unique and extraordinary. With the right
strategies, the Apple Company has the capacity to stand out from the competition and remain a
leader in the world of computers.
Hazards and how they are Being Addressed
The Apple Company has to deal with an array of hazards that range from environmental,
economic to political and managerial issues. Apple Inc. was formerly referred to as the Apple
Company and it is a manufacturer and distributor of personal computers, consumer electronics,
servers, and computer software. The Company also distributes media content in the form of

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computer software, music, and entertainment (Bank Muscat , 2016). The Company was started
by Steve Jobs and his college friends. At the time of beginning, the Company Jobs was a 21
years old college drop out. Jobs lived with his parents in Los Altos in California. He had two
friends with whom he would hang out in the garage of his parents’ house. This garage would go
on to become the first home of the world’s greatest computer in all of man’s history.
Steve Jobs and his friend Wayne had both worked at a company for making video games.
His other friend Wozniak had worked for the Hewlett Puckered Company at that time. The three
put their various experiences and together led to the formation of the Apple Company in first of
April 1976 (Cedillo Torres et al., 2012). Steve Jobs and his friend would go on to become leaders
of the greatest computer company in the world. The company started out with the sole intention
of making personal computers and later venture into the world of smartphone manufacturing
(Cruz et al., 2011). The Company was founded in Cupertino California by the two friends. It was
known as the Apple Company Inc. for the first 30 years that it was in existence.
Wozniak built the Apple personal computer kits at the beginning before he developed
technology for developing the same kits. The first Apple computers went in sale on July of the
same year that the company began (El-Masri et al., 2016). Business magnate Mark Mukkula
provided the needed capital for the beginning of the company at the start of the business. The
company has grown to become the world’s largest in terms of the amount of worth in assets
(Farrell, 2016). The computer differed with major rivals at the time of its introduction into the
market because it had colored graphics compared to the other computers, which had black and
white graphics only.
The Apple Company takes part in the design, manufacture, and the marketing of smart
phones, computers, and other technological devices like the smart watches and the iPods. IPods