EMPLOYEE’S HEALTH AND SAFTY

 
    Employee health and safety programs should be a major priority for management because they safe lives, increase productivity, and reduce costs. These health and safety programs should stress employee involvement, continued monitoring, and an overall wellness component (Anthony et al., 2007). Work safety requires that safe working conditions should not create significant risk of people being rendered unfit to perform their work. 
                                 
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    Health and safety at work is therefore aimed at creating conditions, capabilities, and habits that enable the worker and his/her organization to carry out their work efficiently and in a way that avoids events which could cause them harm (Garcia-Herrero et al., 2012). It is clear that safe working conditions have an effect on the habits of workers, which in turn impacts on efficiency. This implies that employees working in a safe condition are likely to perform in a way that will not cause them harm.

Role of Employees in ensuring their own Safety

    By comparing two types of models on safety, Robens (1972) offers a challenge to the traditional approach to safety in the workplace, known as the ‘careless worker’ model. In this model, employers assumed that most of the accidents were due to the employee’s failure to take safety seriously, or failing to protect themselves. In his report, he recognized that the ‘careless worker’ model does not explain occupational ill-health caused by toxic substances, noise and badly designed and unsafe systems of work. A new approach to occupational health and safety, the ‘shared responsibility’ model assumes that the best way to reduce levels of occupational accidents and disease relies on the cooperation of both employers and employees (Bratton & Gold, 1999)

Role of Administration in Health and Safety Legislation

    The commission went ahead to provide a way out of this confusion. The results included what health and safety law requires. The Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974, sets out the duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, and also the duties of employers to themselves and to each other. Legislation applies to employers and employees. The legislation at the national level is supposed to be made part of domestic law by employers.

Role of Management in Maintenance of Safety Equipment

    The health and safety function are directly related to the elements of the HRM cycle-selection, appraisal, rewards and training. Maintenance of a healthy and safe workplace can be facilitated in the selection process by selecting applicants with personality traits that decrease the likelihood of accidents. Safe work behavior can be encouraged by a reward system that ties bonus payments to the safety record of a work group or section (Bratton & Gold, 1999)
    Employers are required by legislation to provide a working environment that is safe and as free as possible from health risks, including psychological as well as physical risks. Following are the organizational responsibilities on health and safety in organizations. Regular maintenance of industrial plant and safety, putting processes in place to reduce health risks in operations the use, handling, storage or transport of plant or substances, minimizing hazards and maintaining safe conditions in the work environment, providing adequate facilities for worker’s welfare, providing proper information, training and supervision that teaches workers to perform their work safely and without risk.

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  1. pradheep mbaDecember 18, 2021 at 5:15 AM

    According g to the organisation the safety protocol changes and it is essential that the staff are trained a d well aware of any hazard situations and its company responsibility to make sure our staff is safe and sound

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