Occupational safety and health

Health is the primary concern of all employers in any organization. The productivity of the employees is dependent on the state of their health at the workplace and their general health which includes physical, psychological and mental health. This literature review focuses on the strategies that employers can implement to improve health and wellness programs in their organizations so as to reduce the chances of their employees contracting chronic diseases. Owing to what has already been…

employment for its citizens while increasing its export earnings. Foreign firms have seized the opportunity to take advantage of cheap and abundant workforce and lower costs. However there have been many instances where companies have neglected the health and safety standards of its workers. This neglected caught up with many companies in which 1100 people lost there life when a building collapsed in Dhaka which produced garments for many international companies. After this incident, there…

is I get paid weekly, it was a 10$ per hour, it was not enough for me to take care of my family. Also, they gave me health insurance, but I did not even know how to use it, we don’t have health insurance in Iraq, if I feel sick I can go to the hospital whenever I want, and it’s almost free for everyone. In addition, the education is free too; the government is paying for the health and the education. Iraq is a wonderful country, but it’s lacking…

Practical Title: The pros and cons of cell signalling experiments: risk assessments Aims: The aim of this experiment was to identify the risks associated with working in a laboratory by carrying out a risk assessment. The risk assessment instructed us how to safely work in a laboratory while being aware of these risks and what procedures to carry out if an accident happened in the laboratory. Methodology: Prior to the beginning of the risk assessment, laboratory coats, nitrile rubber gloves…

connecting safety and performance within a firm, we draw a conceptual model (Figure 6) depicting the relationships between the safety preparedness, safety performance and project performance. Conceptual Model First, we start with the practical concept of Safety Preparedness, which is the ability to ready, fortify and prepare an organization in advance to cope with reality of providing safety to the workforce. We operationalize Safety Preparedness using the constructs of Culture of Safety…

DISCIPLINARY SYSTEM (norika) Discipline in the workplace is controlling personnel correct behaviourial deficiencies and ensure the compliance to established company rules. (‘Discipline in The Workplace’, n.d.). Disciplinary system should be implemented in every workplace because it can control the employee’s behavior based on the rule given. This is because not all of the employees can always follow the rules given to them as long as they work in the company. Disciplinary system can educate…

In case of indications of an attack is evident one should execute restraining properly. Restraining is important to avoid an animal to escape or hurt himself or others. With the use of proper restraining techniques such as leashing and caging you may prevent accidents such as bite or scratch. At some cases pets can even attack their owners, restraining is also a way to protect yourself from an aggressive attempt (Whitney, 1954). Mishandling in confining a pet may lead to scratches and bites that…

such risk, so before doing the work of employees need to expose themselves on knowledge about health and safety in order to reduce the accident, but the thing about health and safety is now taken for granted by the film production. Before start work, the workers were not given instruction or briefing before starting work filming. Therefore, prone to unforeseen accident to employees as it related to safety underestimated. In doing a job we should be able to identify hazard in work environment.…

Also an example of breaking health and safety procedures is cables hanging out people could trip over them and hurt themselves or could electrocute themselves. A lot of employers will look for health and safety training as it is very serious the Health and Safety Act 1974 which tries to make sure that the health and safety of the employees in the workplace will be safe and to a high standard where no one will be in danger or…

of adequate sanitation and safe drinking water. The existing health system is weak and overwhelmed. Avid to explore the iron of the region, Rio Tinto received a mining concession of the region, while compromised to develop a 700km long haul iron ore railway and a Deep-water port. The project will demand 10 thousand direct jobs for the constructions and 4.500 full-time jobs after…