10. WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

 

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

Source: (Shepherd, 2019)


Workplace Health and Safety is one of the very crucial HR related aspects. Because HR plays a significant role to ensure a safe and secure workplace for all employees (Servisource, 2023).  It is mainly considered as a responsibility of HR to develop and implement Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures. Apart from that HR should make sure that all employees in the organization get sufficient H&S training and ensuring the proper compliance with the occupational H&S standards & regulations (courses.lumenlearning.com, n.d.).  

Furthermore, HR should provide necessary guidance, leadership as well as direction for the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment for all, which would consist of pre-identifying of potential workplace hazards, periodic conducting of risk assessments and developing sustainable action plans to address and mitigate any identified risks (www.linkedin.com, n.d.). HR should ensure that all employees are provided with required personal protective equipment (PPA), safety signs are in place and well maintained and refilled first aid kits are available with easy access (www.linkedin.com, n.d.).

Moreover, in any organization, HR professionals should be able to ensure that their organization is in proper compliance with OSH Act or the Occupational Health and Safety Act and it’s requirements. As well as HR should be responsible for proper education and training of the leadership in organizational health and safety practices (September 2018, n.d.).  HR also should work very closely with relevant health and safety teams to address absence rates of the employees and to promote employee wellbeing (September 2018, n.d.)

Furthermore, it is crucial that HR professionals being thoroughly knowledgeable about health and safety legislations, and also, they should be able to confidently address any concerns related to health and safety in their workplace (September 2018, n.d.). This aspect would not only be helpful to protect the organization from potential legal issues but also definitely contributes to the overall productivity and wellbeing of employees.

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CONCLUSION

HR has a highly critical role in ensuring workplace health and safety and could actively help create a safe and healthy working environment for all that promotes employee wellbeing and productivity.


List of References
 

courses.lumenlearning.com. (n.d.). HR and Health and Safety | Human Resources Management. [online] Available at: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-humanresourcesmgmt/chapter/hr-and-health-and-safety/.


Shepherd, C. (2019). Why Your Business Needs the Assistance of a WHS Consultant. [online] WHS Matters. Available at: https://whsmatters.com.au/why-your-business-needs-the-assistance-of-a-whs-consultant/.


Servisource (2023). Workplace Health and Safety: A Guide for HR Managers. [online] Servisource. Available at: https://servisource.ie/workplace-health-and-safety-a-guide-for-hr-managers/  [Accessed 12 Apr. 2024].


September 2018, F.C. 25 (n.d.). Why health and safety is a job for HR. [online] www.peoplemanagement.co.uk. Available at: https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1741825/why-health-safety-job-for-hr.


www.linkedin.com. (n.d.). The Role of HR in Workplace Health and Safety. [online] Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/role-hr-workplace-health-safety-martin-rodgers-anangwe.

Comments

  1. Sudara Liyanaarachchi16 April 2024 at 08:23

    Workplace health and safety is a critical aspect of ensuring the well-being of employees and maintaining a productive work environment. Employers have a legal and ethical responsibility to provide a safe and healthy workplace for their employees. It is a clear factor to bring up the employee motivation and retention levels. Good amount of information gathered. It would be even be if the content can be broken down in to key sections and point out the importance of health and safety at workplace, direct impact of it to the organization growth, success & values, how to improve approach of HR with regards to this points and what strategies to be used on implementing and continuing the implementations. Overall an important topic has been touched and good amount of information summarized.

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  2. Vishaka16 April 2024 at 08:24

    Employees willing to work in a safe and secure work environment which has the possitive corelationship with the productivity. Frequent risk assesments, viable controls to mitigate risks, awareness, feed back systems to be implemented by the dedicated team at the HR is essential to attain the H&S goals in the business.

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