Employee Health and Safety - Essay Example

Assignment 1
Accidents happen in this company almost every other day. The main reason for the accidents is lack of proper training and lack of safety equipment. The management does not provide proper personal protective equipment to the employees. When new employees are hired, they are not inducted properly which results in accidents.

Record of all the accidents inside the workplace is maintained. By analyzing this record I was able to make a hypothesis about certain areas which were most dangerous as compared to others.

The primary source of Information:
I did not use any other source of information; instead, I focused on visiting the workplace personally and collecting data about potential hazards personally. I went to those areas which showed a higher rate of accidents and injuries in the record. I noted down all the potential hazards for the workers. I visited each and every corner of the workplace and collected information about all the potential hazards.

By visiting the whole workplace I was able to identify the potential hazards and the old data gave us information about the total number of accidents and injuries in certain areas of the workplace. However, I wanted to know about the whole incident, how that happened and who was at the fault. For this purpose, I had to arrange interviews with the workers who fell prey to those accidents. So, I interviewed the workers and asked them how the accidents happened with them. They told me the real facts about the accidents. Some workers admitted that it was totally their own mistake. Had they taken some precautionary measures, this accident could have been avoided. Some workers mentioned the carelessness of the management for not adopting safety measures on particular machines. After these interviews, we were able to make an opinion that why those accidents happened in the past and how they could have been avoided.

Recommendations:
It has not become possible in any part of the world to create a hazard-free workplace. However through adopting precautionary measures it has become possible to reduce the accidents and their severity to a great extent. By properly arranging things in the workplace we can easily reduce the risk factor in the workplace. If we focus more on training it is possible to bring down the accidents rate to almost zero percent. ( Armstrong & Baron, 2002)

The management should follow the recommendations given below in order to avoid accidents in the future and to make the workplace safe for the workers.
• Management should not send inexperienced and newly recruited employees on machines without any senior worker. They can only work on machines in the presence and supervision of a senior employee for a specific time period. ( Price & Price, 2011)

• There were many large and small objects on the floor when I surveyed the organization. All the objects should be placed properly and there should be some marking with different color lines. A walking area should be marked separately which should be kept clear all the time.

• Forklifts were moving around in the workplace carrying some heavy objects. Those forklifts should have a separate route marked with yellow color and forklifts should operate only in that marked areas.

• There were few cranes in operation inside the workplace and they were carrying very huge and heavy objects from one point to another. Any mishap can happen there. There should be a strong net of steel above the workers, so that if any object may fell, it may not hurt the workers.

• All the workers should make sure that they wear personal protective equipment before starting the work

• Management should start the training of the employees for teaching them about right methods of working

• Posters should be pasted in all the departments which should warn workers about bad working methods

• Safety manager should visit the workplace frequently and teach the workers on the job about the right working methods and indicate to them about their mistakes

• Managers and supervisors should take part in improving the working methods by using their experience

• Management should take steps in order to minimize the pollution inside the workplace in order to avoid the illness of workers.

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