WHS
- noun
- Formal
- Many companies prioritize WHS to minimize work-related injuries and ensure compliance with regulations.
- implementation of WHS
Examples
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Understanding WHS guidelines is essential for maintaining a safe working environment in any industry.
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The WHS program was designed to promote safety and health in the workplace for all employees.
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Table 1 provides an overview of the key features of WHS and their derivation from evidence-based practice.
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This study evaluated the effect of WHS implementation on elementary students and their teachers and was driven by the following hypotheses:
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Given teachers' strong interest in adopting WHS and its demonstrated effectiveness, we are confident that future studies will show that the program is functionally related to improved student behavior.
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Three weeks into the school year (after completing pretest ESBA assessments of their students), teachers in the intervention condition were instructed to begin using the WHS curriculum with their students.
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Demonstrations of a causal relationship between WHS implementation and improved student behavior, taking into consideration teacher and student-level characteristics as moderators and school-level characteristics as mediators, will be the focus of future studies.
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A six-point Likert scale (ranging from 1 - strongly disagree to 6 - strongly agree), as well as open-ended responses, were used to assess teacher satisfaction with the WHS program at posttest (see Table 2 for individual items).
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Synonyms
Guidelines and rules that keep people safe at work
Surface Forms
Morphology
WHS = World Heritage Site + Workplace Health and Safety (opaque) = W + H + S
WHS is an initialism; the letters do not transparently reveal the full expansion to learners unless they already know the specific abbreviation.
Etymology
WHS is an abbreviation that can mean World Heritage Site or Workplace Health and Safety, so it points to a place important to many people ('World Heritage Site') or to rules that help 'keep people safe at work' ('Workplace Health and Safety').