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Employee Welfare
There are various type of safety to be taken care of in an industry where unsafe
acts can results in massive accident or injury due to hazards. You must
constantly be aware of the physical surroundings in your facility. A hazard is a
potential to cause injury or a level of threat to life, health, property and
environment. By recognizing and understanding the hazards around you in the
plant, accidents can be prevented. The following some main types of hazards:
1. Process & Production Hazards
2. Fire Hazards
3. Electrical Hazards
4. Material Hazards
5. Building and Structural Hazards
6. Chemical and Radiation Hazards
7. Environmental Hazards
Safety form this hazards is the shared responsibility of the employee as well as
the employer and both should jointly work for the best safe working
environment.
The Workplaces should be healthy for All Age group of people campaign
promoting the importance of sustainable work — that is, safe and healthy
working conditions from the start to the end of a person’s life should be
promoted and implemented. Considering today’s scenario workforce ageing and
retirement ages rising is becoming ever more important, therefore working
conditions should be safe, healthy and fair. This will enable people to work for
longer and retire in good health with better experience of life. However, by
introducing measures to ensure that work is sustainable, enterprises and
organisations can minimize negative effects by increasing the productivity,
making work safer and healthier for everyone.
Organization should come out with such campaigns which will encourage the
workforce to go towards the healthy practices which will be beneficial for their
personal as well as organizational conducts.
Practice and awareness campaign related to hazards, handling of the hazards,
campaigns for handling and dealing with the fire emergencies, campaigns for
prevention of the deadly diseases. Such type of campaigns should be regularly
conducted for employees for the motivated approach to the better life and
practices.
The activities at the individual enterprise level are more practical and varied
compared to the national level. Generally, such activities are designed by the
health and safety department or by a specially constituted task force or person
set up by management. Some activities are contests among employees or among
different departments for lowest accident frequency rate, good housekeeping
and accident-free work, safety posters, safety slogans, safety suggestions and so
on, exhibitions, skits, dramas, one-act plays, songs, training programmes and
seminars, lectures, screening of films, practical demonstrations, organizing of
emergency drills, holding of functions, and so on. Experts from outside the
enterprise should also be invited as guest speakers for better encouragement.
Some of the common campaigns and approaches which have contributed to the
effectiveness of performance at the enterprise level may be summarized as
follows:
Insurance Costs
Covering Injury, ill
£1 health, damage
Uninsured Costs
£8-36 Product and material damage.
Plant & building damage
Legal costs
Expenditure on emergency
supplies.
Clearing site
Production delays
Overtime working and
temporary labour
Investigation time.
Supervisor’s time diverted
Clerical effort.
Fines
Loss of expertise/experience
Elements of Safety & Health Programs for Healthier and Safer Workplace
1. Management Leadership
a) Actions to be taken by management are as
below:
Communicate the commitment towards
safety and Health programs by developing
the written safety and health policy
statement signed and circulated by the top
Management to all the workers, unions,
contractors, suppliers, vendors, customers
etc.
b) Define goals, programs and expectation of
the safety and health programs by
establishing realistic, attainable and
measurable goals that demonstrate progress
toward improving safety and health
c) Allocate Sufficient resources, integrate safety and health into planning
and budgeting of an organization.
Allocate sufficient time to the employees for the participation into such
programs
d) Expect Performance Define and communicate responsibilities and
authorities for accountability, Set an example for workers by following
the same procedures
2. Worker Participation
a) Encourage workers to report safety and
health concerns
b) Establish a process to report injuries,
near misses and other safety and health
concerns
c) Empower workers to temporarily
suspend work they feel is unsafe
d) Encourage participation in the program
e) Provide positive reinforcement to
workers who participate
f) Maintain an open-door policy, inviting
workers to speak to managers about
safety and health
g) Involve workers in all aspects of the
program
h) Developing a program, Reporting hazards and developing solutions
i) Analyzing hazards, Defining safe work practices
j) Conducting site inspections
k) Participating in incident/near-miss investigations
l) Serving as trainers and Developing and evaluating training programs
m) Give workers access to safety and health information
n) Remove barriers to participation Ensure workers from all levels of the
organization can participate regardless of skill level, education, or
language also Ensure policies and programs do not discourage worker
participation