Occupational and Health and Safety Health and Safety Programs and Activities
Accident Prevention
Post-Employment
Termination Lay-off Disability Death Retirement
Figure.1.1 Strategic Relationship of Health, Safety, and Post Employment with Other HRM Functions
Health and Safety Employee Productivity -based on the state of his overall well-being and the conditions around his workplace.
Key functions of HRM. -provide a health and safety of employee.
World Health Organization (WHO) -it defines health as a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Other HRM Functions
Recruitment Training and Development Compensation Labor Relations Organizational Goals
Profit Productivity Employee Satisfaction Customer Satisfaction Development of New/Better Products Expansion to Global Market Occupational Health -it deals with diseases, injury, injury prevention, rehabilitation and other conditions that happen in the workplace.
Occupational illness -any illness caused by environmental factors, the exposure to which is unique to a particular process, trade or occupation to which an employee is not ordinarily o subjected or exposed outside of or far away from such employment.
Safety -is the state of being certain that some agent under defined conditions will not cause adverse effects.
Occupational safety -this means dealing with accidents that are primarily a result of human and or technical error.
The Extensive benefits from this following are the proper attention to workers health and safety.
1. Healthy workers -are a key strategy for overcoming poverty
2. Safe Workplace -the processes of protecting workers, surrounding communities and the environment for the future generations have important common elements, such as pollution control and exposure resolution.
3. Occupational Safety and health -can contribute to improving the employability of workers, through workplace (re)design, maintenance of a healthy and retraining assessment of work demands medical diagnosis, health screening and assessment of functional capacities.
4. Occupational health - is fundamental to public health for it is increasingly clean that major diseases, need workplace programs as part of the disease control strategy.
Dr. Benjamin Amick III -is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) and an associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
International Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD) -in 1997 research study thus women working in the semiconductor industry exhibit reproductive problems due constant chronic exposure to toxic chemicals.
The Philippines Occupational Safety and Health Standards manual consider the following hazardous workplaces:
1. Nature of Work Exposes to dangerous environmental on work conditions.
Example: Ionizing Radiation Chemicals fire Flammable Substances Noxious Components
2. Where the workers are engaged in construction work, logging, fire, fighting, mining, quarrying, blasting, stevedoring, dock work, deep sea fishing and mechanized farming.
3. Engaged in the manufactures of handling of explosives and other polytechnic products.
4. Use or are expose to power driver or explosive biological agents
Example: Bacteria Fungi Viruses Protozoa Nematodes and other parasites
Ensure Employees safety and good health (11%)
Sustain productivity (3%)
Maintain total health and fitness of the employees (3%)
Develop work efficiency (2%)
Avoid absenteeism (2%)
Maintain customer patronage (1%)
Provide preventive and curative health services (1%)
Follow government requirements (1%)
Figure 1.2 Objectives in Instilling Health and Safety Programs (survey conducted among 330 companies in 2003)
It shows the primary purpose of local companies in having safety and health programs.