Health and Safety Process of an organization

 

Occupational health has been defined as “enabling people to undertake their occupation in a way that causes the least harm to their health.” According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is too narrow, because health means much more: “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (Phoenix Blog, 2018)

Occupational health and safety focus on 

• Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers in all occupations
• Prevention of worker absence due to poor health caused by their working conditions
• Protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health
• Assessment of an employee’s occupational environment, and adapting to their physiological and psychological capabilities

Health and Safety of an organization is required to record details of health and safety information for legal reasons, similar to maintaining records about professional qualifications and membership of trade bodies. Health and safety records help keep organizational employees safe at work and ensure that the company is meeting its legal obligations towards both them and the public.

Whenever a health and safety issue arise, HR of organization is called upon to demonstrate that the business has done all that is expected of it. Where proof cannot be shown, the business is at risk of legal ramifications and fines.

Once again, the way to mitigate such problems is through the use of accurate records of courses attended, documents issued, and anything else specific to health and safety legislation that your business does as a matter of course. If an employee attends any course aimed at increasing their personal safety and that of the people around them, the details need to be recorded in case of query or dispute in future.

Because course attendance and training are closely linked to general employee records, the HR department is the best equipped to record this information. And the HR software used throughout your business unifies health and safety data with employee records for quick and easy retrieval and analysis

Strategies to avoid key issues in Health and safety of an organization

When describe the organizational health and safety most of the organization face different challenges. They can avoid key issues by using different strategies. Some of key suggestions to avoided issues relating to health and safety can be identify as below,

Retention strategy should be changed.

l  After the retirement they join with the company again as contract basic.it should change because they are not well in mentally and physically it increases the risk of employees.

Fire protection and safety equipment

l  Fix the technologically improved fire protections and safe equipment’s for betterment of the employees.

 Life insurance.

l  Introduce insurance facilities for risky workers.

 

 Reference

Phoenix Blog. (2018). Phoenix Health and Safety. [online] Available at: https://www.phoenixhsc.co.uk/blog/meant-health-safety-workplace.html.