Workplace health and safety (WH&S) is one major area of concern for all the industrialists, public health and social activists. Almost every day there are many occurrences of work place injuries and fatalities which results in unfathomable pain and agony to employees and their families. These work place injuries and fatalities cost a large amount to a country’s economy . The safe work Australia in 2012-13 financial year estimated the economic cost of work related injuries to $61.8 billion (safe work Australia, 2015). Furthermore, a study conducted in 1995 by industry commission showed that 25% of this economic cost was as a result of direct work injury while the other 75% was a result of indirect costs such as lost of productivity, loss
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Organizations across the world are now looking for effective safety and health management systems which can help them in reducing the measure and severity of work places injuries and illness. These measures will help organizations to reduce costs related to work place injuries. Work health and safety legislations are designed in such way where it enhances the safety performance of a given organization. In this paper, we are trying to analyse whether mere complying with WHS legislation is enough to improve safety performance or not (Brun et al.,2007).
Definition of workplace health and safety
World health organization (WHO) has defined occupational health where it deals with all the elements of safety and health in the work place and majorly focuses on how to prevent employees from hazards. It also aims to prevent workers from leaving an organization due to harsh working conditions and ensure them good working conditions (Karen,2014).
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The figure and reports clearly shows that despite strong legislation and strong measures work place health and safety have failed to generate the results which could reduce the fatality rate. The need of the hour is to develop very extensive structure which supports compliance regimes integrated with separation of people and risk through advancement of technology. Authorities and organizations have to work hand in hand to successfully incorporate this new model to reduce work place health and safety problems. By incorporating this new model work place health and safety can reach to new transformational improvement which will eventually bring huge benefits to the community in terms of health care and reduced stress. Hence from all the studies from the Australian report on the work place health and safety we can conclude that mere compliance to legislation of the work place health and safety will not bring enough changes in improving safety performance (Barrientos et al.,2004).
Safety culture and safety leadership- Way to Improve Safety
Organizations across the world are now looking for effective safety and health management systems which can help them in reducing the measure and severity of work places injuries and illness. These measures will help organizations to reduce costs related to work place injuries. Work health and safety legislations are designed in such way where it enhances the safety performance of a given organization. In this paper, we are trying to analyse whether mere complying with WHS legislation is enough to improve safety performance or not (Brun et al.,2007).
Definition of workplace health and safety
World health organization (WHO) has defined occupational health where it deals with all the elements of safety and health in the work place and majorly focuses on how to prevent employees from hazards. It also aims to prevent workers from leaving an organization due to harsh working conditions and ensure them good working conditions (Karen,2014).
Discussion & …show more content…
The figure and reports clearly shows that despite strong legislation and strong measures work place health and safety have failed to generate the results which could reduce the fatality rate. The need of the hour is to develop very extensive structure which supports compliance regimes integrated with separation of people and risk through advancement of technology. Authorities and organizations have to work hand in hand to successfully incorporate this new model to reduce work place health and safety problems. By incorporating this new model work place health and safety can reach to new transformational improvement which will eventually bring huge benefits to the community in terms of health care and reduced stress. Hence from all the studies from the Australian report on the work place health and safety we can conclude that mere compliance to legislation of the work place health and safety will not bring enough changes in improving safety performance (Barrientos et al.,2004).
Safety culture and safety leadership- Way to Improve Safety