CHAPTER 5: WEB BASED OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Thursday, 6 December 2012

          In the next class, others group would present about the web based occupational safety and health. Here is some information that I can shared with you. Krueger (2011) explained the uses of occupational safety and health administration (OSHA) can help employees and manager gain any information that related with safety and health in the organization. The best thing is, when the employer can apply this information in their management. So, take this opportunity to aware about this safety and health to prevent any accidents, fatalities, injuries and illness happened in the workplace. Can you imagine the cost of the medicine if anything happened out of the box? It is too expensive. From the story of facilitators during I taking the degree + + in OSH, there have a lot of accident happened and can cause death especially for the industrial company that used machine to produce their product.

Based on York (2010), in the OSHA mission of Americans’ workers, to ensure the improvement of safety and health, the company will provide the training, outreach, giving the knowledge through education and also establishing partnerships. So, the method the company used is through online system likes e-Tools which are stand-alone, interactive and interactive. Besides that, it also included the web based training tools on OSH topic to make sure all the employees have the basic information about the OSH. 

York (2010) also stated that, the topic in e-Tools’ included Refrigeration, Battery Manufacturing, Construction, Eye and Face Protection, Logging, Noise and Hearing Conservation, Poultry Processing, Scaffolding, and Youth in Agriculture. Sai On Cheung et al (2004) explained, in the construction projects also used web based safety and health monitoring system called as Construction Safety and Health (CSHM). Here I will share the little bit information that I get about the CSHM. The function of CSHM is to detect any potential risk and hazards happened. This system also can identify safety and health hazards as earlier and as we always heard that prevention is better than cure. 

As the important to aware about the safety and health, I would like to suggest to a big company used this system because it can help the HR job easier and ensure that the record can be arranged smoothly. Others, it also can reduce any accident happened among the employee and employer. So, the employee will feel more comfortable without worries about the accident happened among them. (400 words)

References


Krueger. G. P (2007). Health and Wellness Programs for Commercial Drivers. Washington: Transportantion Research Board of the National Academies.

Sai On Cheung, Cheung. K. K. W, Suen. H. C. H. (2004). CSHM: Web-based safety and health monitoring system for construction management. Journal of Safety Research 35. 159-170

York. K. M. (2010). Applied Human Resource Management, Strategic Issues and Experiential Exercises. SAGE Publication, Inc: United Kingdom.