Is Zero Harm a Feasible Goal For Organizations?
Zero Harm for organizations means: everyone should be injury-free, fit, and well at the end of each shift. It’s a new safety culture movement that focuses on creating an entirely safe environment for employers, employees, contractors, and visitors daily. Zero harm culture has been highly supposed impossible and impractical to achieve. Despite its argumentative character, […]
Contractor Safety Management – Who Is Responsible?
Health and safety law across all countries gives employers and work site owners duties and responsibilities for Contractor Safety Management for their own hired employees as well as for the employees of contractors. Definitions Principal Contractor A person who is appointed to manage, coordinate, and/or implement the work or service involved in the contract and/or […]
Achieving good standards in occupational health and Safety: “Potential barriers”
There are certain specific ‘Potential Barriers’ to upgrading good standards of Occupational Health and Safety because of which organizations might not be able to achieve or maintain safety standards and the well-being of their employees. Occupational safety and health (OSH) is the understanding and knowledge of the estimation, evaluation, and prevention of risk of hazards […]
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY TRAINING, TRAINER & TRAINEES
“Health & Safety Training” is the most important instrument for preparing workers and safety officers to be aware of workplace hazards and controls so they can create and work in a safe environment and be more productive. Education and training aim to provide workers and officers with a greater sightedness of safety and health knowledge […]
WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES
More than 60% of employees have found some aspects of their jobs to be different from what they had expected. So, if you might be disappointed in the day-to-day differences in “Expectations And Realities” of your workplace management. EXPECTATION: The way you illustrate what happens around you! REALITY: what happens around you! These two are […]
HIDDEN HAZARDS OF WORKPLACE DISASTERS
Workplace risks, especially those that aren’t obvious, or the result of hidden hazards take time to result in poor health, injury, or death. They are mostly ignored since they don’t pose an immediate risk. It’s important to check on regularly these devious dangers. It is observed that ‘lone workers’ are more vulnerable to hidden hazards […]
Are Safety Policy, Leadership And Culture Interlinked?
“Safety Policy, Leadership, And Culture” are the core elements of every occupational health and safety system. It is the prime responsibility of safety leaders to develop and implement policies and enforce accountability. They can be the initiators and supporters of a culture of blame or of a no-blame approach. Cultural traditions and policies play a role […]
HOW TO HANDLE BULLYING AND HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE
Everyone has the right to work in an environment that is free from harassment, bullying and discrimination. Discrimination based on race, gender, age, or religion violates someone’s right to be treated with respect, dignity and fairness. Bullying, harassment and or discrimination can damage the affected person’s wellbeing, work performance and job security, and it can […]
Risk Evaluation And Emergency Planning
Risk evaluation and Emergency Planning allow you to determine the significance of risks and then decide whether to accept a specific risk or planning actions to prevent or minimize it. RISK EVALUATION Risk evaluation is defined as: “Determination of risk management priorities through the establishment of qualitative and/or quantitative relationships between benefits and associated risks.” […]
Enhancing Health & Safety Culture In Your Organization
Health and Safety Culture in Your Organization depends on the interlink between proactive management and the performance of maintaining health and safety at the workplace. Workplace Culture Culture is why we do, what we do, and the way we do things around. Each culture is unique and often is made up of subcultures of level, […]