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Employee Safety and Health Chapter 16. Chapter outline. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Responsibilities The Causes of Accidents How to measure safety Organizational Safety Programs Employee Health. Employee Safety and Health.
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Employee Safety and Health Chapter 16
Chapter outline • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Responsibilities • The Causes of Accidents • How to measure safety • Organizational Safety Programs • Employee Health
Employee Safety and Health Employee safety and health are important concerns in today’s organizations
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Definition : to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for every working person . Responsibilities: • Support the development of innovative ways of dealing with workplace hazards • Establish requirements for employers to keep records of injury and illness and, monitor certain occupational illnesses • Establish training programs to increase the competence of occupational safety and health personnel • Provide technical and compliance assistance and training and education to help employers reduce worker accidents and injuries
OSHA Standards • Currently OSHA issues standards for a wide variety of workplace hazards including • Toxic substances • Electrical hazards • Hazardous wastes • Infectious diseases • Fire and explosion hazards • Dangerous atmospheres • Machine hazards
The Causes of Accidents Causes that leading to workplace accidents • Un safe Personal acts • unsafe conditions in the Physical environment • Accident proneness of employees. 1-Personal acts • It has been estimated that unsafe personal acts cause as much as 80 percent of organizational accidents. • Unsafe personal acts include such things as( taking unnecessary risks, failing to wear protective equipment, using improper tools and equipment, and taking unsafe shortcuts.) 2- Physical environment • Accidents can and do happen in all types of environments, such as offices, parking lots, and factories. Ex of commonly encountered unsafe work conditions (poor light ,sharp edge ).
3- Accident proneness: • certain people are accident prone. • Some employees, are more susceptible to accidents. • This condition may result from inborn traits.
How to measure safety Some equations are formed from certain rates and then measured and compared to similar departments… • Frequency rate Ratio that indicates the frequency with which disabling injuries occur. • Disabling injuries Work-related injuries that cause an employee to miss one or more days of work.
Organizational Safety Programs 1-Promoting safety: 1-Make the work interesting , uninteresting work leads to boredom and stress which all cause accidents . 2- Establish a safety committee. 3- Feature employee safety contests with prizes • For the employee with the best safety record • To test safety knowledge • To promote creativity 4- Publicize safety statistics 5-hold safety training programs
2-A safety training program P.325 • Assess the training needs • Test the level of employees’ safety skills • Design a program to solve the program • Get line managers on board • Evaluate the program effectiveness • Review the safety process
Employee Health Occupational Health Hazards Occupational illness: any abnormal condition or disorder caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment. • chemicals in the workplace
Stress in the workplace Stress: mental and physical condition that results from a perceived threat of danger, and the pressure to remove it. Burnout • Occurs when work is no longer meaningful to a person. • Result from stress or other work-related factors.