Occupational health and Counselling

Prepared by
Samjhana Neupane
Msc Nursing 2nd year
Community Health Nursing
SNSR
 GENERAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of this session the participants will

be able to explain about occupational health
and counselling.
 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session the participants will be able to:

• To introduce about occupational health and counselling.

• To define counselling and employee counselling.

• To enlist the the aims of counselling

• To list the modes of counselling.

• To state the needs for counselling.

• To explain the benefits of counselling.

 Occupational health and Counselling

Introduction:
• Today the latest trend in Corporate HR world is “Employee Counselling at
Workplace”. This trend has been imported from the United States to India.

• In this competition world there are de-stressed employees in each and every
organization. It’s difficult to find a tension free employee in an organization.

• Organization’s has started Counselling at Workplace to retain the current

employees, the talented employees, to increase the productivity and this is
one of the way to motivate their employee.
 Occupational health

Introduction:

Occupational health is the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of

physical, mental and social well-being of workers by establishing and
maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.
 Occupational health services include:

• Identification and assessment of the risks from health hazards in the workplace.

• Providing advice, training and education on occupational health, safety,

ergonomics, and protective equipment.

• Providing first aid and emergency treatment.

• Planning and designing workplaces to ensure the adaptation of the worker to the
work is promoted.

• Monitoring of workers’ health in relation to work.

 Counselling:
MEANING
• Counselling denotes ‘giving of advice’.It is a specialized service of guidance. It
is a process designed to help an individual grow to greater maturity through
learning and to makes decisions of an individual.

DEFINITION
• Counselling is a method that helps the client to use a problem solving process
to recognize and manage stress and that facilitates interpersonal relationships
among client, family and health care team
 Definition of employee
counselling

• Employee counselling is a therapeutic process of providing help and support

to people to face and sail through difficult times in life. It helps people to see
things from a different viewpoint and encourage them to draft their action
plan.
 Aims of counselling

• Understanding self

• Making impersonal decisions

• Setting achievable goals which enhance growth

• Planning in the present to bring about desired future

• Effective solutions to personal and interpersonal problems.

• Coping with difficult situations

• Controlling self defeating emotions

• Acquiring effective transaction skills.

• Acquiring positive self-regard and a sense of optimism about ones own ability to

satisfy ones basic needs.

Functions of Counselling

Therapy

guidanc
Advising
e

Sharing Change

Helping
 NEED FOR EMPLOYEE COUNSELLING
AT WORKPLACE WHEN

Unrealistic Targets

Excessive Workload

Absenteeism and Late Coming

Lack of awareness of policies & procedures

Performance Issues

Slipping Deadlines

Career Problems
COUNSELLING MODES

DISCIPLINARY

DEVELOPMENT
AL
 DEVELOPMENTAL

Face to Face communication

Conducted by Immediate Supervisor

Starts with a verbal discussion

Ends with draft plan of action

First action step

DISCIPLINARY

Second action
Conducted By
step (if
Pre Human Starts with a Ends with draft
developmental
Penalization Resource warning/letter plan of action
counselling
department
fails)
HR’s Roles in counselling
COUNSELLING PROCESS

Identify the
need

Follow up Prepare for counselling

Conduct the
session
 STEP 1

IDENTIFY THE NEEDS

• Observe the situation, events or issues

• Compare the current situation with the desired one.

• Focused and two way communication

• Interactive session
 STEP 2
Prepare For Counselling
• Select a suitable place and notify the time.

• Notify the concern members well in advance.

• Organize Information.

• Outline the session components.

• Plan your counselling strategy.

• Establish the right atmosphere.

 STEP 3

CONDUCT THE SESSION

• Opening the session

• Discussing the issue

• Developing the plan of action

• Recording and closing the session

 STEP 4
FOLLOW UP
• Support subordinates to implement their plan of action

• Review plan of action to determine if the desired results were achieved

• Amend the plan of action if required

• Measures after session include follow up counselling and informing the high-
up.
QUALITIES OF EFFECTIVE COUNSELLING

• The counsellor should be either a professional counsellor or any senior, experienced,

mature employee.counselor qualities

• The counsellor should be a good patient listener.

• Counsellor should be able to understand the problem of employee and should be

able to give a proper advice.

• Counsellor should be able boost the employee for his/her career path and show a
positive way.

• Counsellor should be able to sort out the official problems of the employee.
• Counsellor should not compare the employee with other employees.

• Counsellor should be able to understand the situation of the employee.

• Counsellor should have warm manners and social etiquettes.

• Excellent communication skills

• Counsellor should have sufficient time to understand and listen about the
employee problems. It does not means that counselling should go on for
hours
Benefits of effective counselling

Helps employees to tackle with the problems effectively

Employees are able to sort their problems

Helps in decision making

A new way to look at the perspective.

May reduce the number of absenteeism of employee

It may prevent termination from employer or resignation from employee.

It reduces the cost of hiring new employee and training new staff.

Possibility of smooth coordination between employer and employee.

SUMMARY

• Today we have discussed about occupational health, meaning and

definition of counselling and employee counselling, aims of
counselling, modes of counselling and benefits of counselling.
• CONCLUSION
• Counselling is a method that helps the client to use a problem
solving process to recognize and manage stress and that facilitates
interpersonal relationships among client, family and health care
team.
• The aim of counselling are understanding self, making impersonal
decisions, setting achievable goals which enhance growth etc and
the modes of counselling is disciplinary and developmental.

• The benefits of employee counselling are helps employees to

tackle with the problems effectively, employees are able to sort
their problems, helps in decision making
 EVALUATION

a r e t h e f u nc t ions of
What
counselling?
What is occupational health
counselling?

What are the benefits of effective counselling?

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