Employee Wellbeing: Occupational safety and prevention of hazards
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•Aditi Baindur
•Arooj Mehmood
•Lejla Sakoljic

Risks & Hazards
•Risk Assessments: quantitative & qualitative
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•Identify potential events
•Rank according to severity (low, medium, high)
•Assess result, probability
•Take action
•Monitor & evaluate
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European Agency for Health & Safety at Work and European Foundation for Improvement of Living and
Working Conditions regulate in EU region
ISO standards:
For example, ISO 6385, Ergonomic principles in the design of work systems
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“People are being entitled to treated as full human beings with personal needs, hopes & anxiety”
Martin, 1967
Managerial Responsibilities
* Duty of care, good work environment, beneficial
for organization
* Key Aspect “Health & Safety” & “Job design.”

•Improvement of the work Environment
* Managerial Behaviour
* Work life balance
* Managing stress
* Sexual harassment (Problems dealing with sexual
* harassment).
* Bullying
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•Services for individuals
* Counselling (sickness, bereavement, domestic problems, retirement)
* Group Employee Services

•The form of harassment and an employee who suffer from
bullying will under pressure and the company will endure
consequences if this situation does not tackle.
•Bullying is very hard to prove until the victims speak out.
However, it is an important responsibility of Human Resource
Management in improvising the Bullying situation
•The role of Human Resource management and the Board are
very in important in handling with Bullying situation in a
company.

•The form of bullying is complicated and hard to identify and supervise due to the development of
social application
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•Need the cooperation between the government and enterpreneurs (Japan – as an example)
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•Bullying situation is more serious in Asian companies because of the culture and society
environment.




•Services helps the individuals to help them deal with their
problems and feel comfortable in workplace
•Counselling or personal case work
•Apply the employee assistance program (EAPS) is applied
•Provided by the agency
•Provide the feeling of be listened and respected for employees
SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS

•MCH Handbook (Boshi-Techo) Program -Started in 1947
* 20-page handbook consisted of registration, maternal care, deliveries, health checkup of the
child, vaccination and food rations
* After submitted Pregnancy notification form to local government office, this handbook will be
given
Maternity Mark- Started in 2006
* program to raise social awareness of pregnancy and to encourage others to consider the needs of
pregnant women

Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Definition:
Hazard is anything that may cause harm, such as chemicals, electricity,
working from ladders, an open drawer etc
Risk is the chance, high or low, that somebody could be harmed by
these and other hazards, together with an indication of how serious
the harm could be.

What is OSHA?
* OSHA ( Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is part of United States Department of
Labor. The mission of OSHA is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and
women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and
assistance. OSHA has defined special actions to prevent and control hazards in working enviroment.