Assignment Task:
Most environmental health issues involve a variety of elements with overlapping or distinct causes, stakeholder groups, and solutions. This includes environments found within workforce setting around the globe. In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 "created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance" (United States Department, n.d.). Selecting an important, specific element of the issue is essential when formulating realistic ways to address and improve environmental problems. This specific aspect of the issue is known as the problem and can be defined in a concise problem statement. The problem statement includes the purpose of the problem-solving effort, defines its scope, and states the specific objective of the problem-solving effort in the form of a question. The three elements of the problem statement are: Explaining how things should be. Identifying a significant gap. Asking a question about one major way to improve the current situation.