Safety and Health in the Workplaces

Question: Discuss about theSafety and Health in the Workplaces. Answer: Introduction The most vital legislation that is implemented at the workplaces is the safety, health and welfare at works act 2005 and 2010. This act is mainly designed for the employers and the working employees of different organisations. This act mainly highlights the rights that have been given to the employees for supplying substantial fines and penalties basically for breaches that are discussed under the health and safety legislation (Asfahl, et al 2010). The chances of violence that may be caused to the employees should always be addressed to certain safety statements. It must be made sure that the proper level of safeguard should be available at the environment of the organisation to the extent it is possible for the need of decreasing the level of risk. Aim: The main goal of the report is to highlight the different health and safety procedures and rules that are followed by the Aid Agencies like the NGOs for the safety of their employers as well as employees working. This module mainly aims to highlight the different roles and responsibilities of different agencies to ensure the safety of their employees so that they could supply with proper forms of services to the citizens (Burton, et al 2010). The Main Objective of this Task Includes: To identify the tools and equipments that would be utilised by employees so that accordingly the safety of the workplace could be maintained. To assess the chances of risks that might take place due to the use of different materials that would be exposed to physical agents. To identify the different ways in which the improper conduct or behavior of the people might put the health and safety of the employees at high risks (Friend, et al 2014). Make recommendation on the supply of more instructions and improved training that ensures health and safety at the workplace. Data and Methods: The secondary data has been considered appropriate for supplying with more information on the present topic. The post positivism philosophy and the exploratory research design are perfect for analysis on the current topic (Goetsch, 2011). This design is considered perfect as it extends the groundwork for future research and also helps in determining the information that could be gathered with the use of existing rule and regulations for ensuring health and safety at the workplaces. The inductive approach is considered as essential for a perfect analysis of the gathered information based on the current research topic. Structure: The structure of the report is in sequence as suggested. In the first portion it highlights a brief introduction over the selection of the theme. In the next part the main aim of the research on the selected theme has been highlighted with the vital objectives that are the main part of the report. The data that would be gathered and the different ways in which those would be analysed through the use of philosophy, approach has been stated underneath. Main Issues: The most vital issues behind the research on the selected theme are the less availability of literary materials that are required for a perfect analysis of the subject. More issues that lie with the research on the current theme are that there is no way of examining the validation of the information gathered and these increases the chances of making the research invalid (Mearns, et al 2010). There is certain range of measures that should be considered by the employees, but requires further glare and reflection which was not done properly and thus information on the operators position and the use of different software that is utilised for maintaining the health and safety at the workplaces could not be gathered. The time was very limited for the research and this restricted in exploring more amount of literary materials for gathering information based on the research topic. Analysis: These issues could be analysed when there would be ample amount of literary materials and other sources available for the analysis of the research theme. The time for research would be expanded so that the information is presented after examining its validation (Asfahl, et al 2010). As technological involvement has increased the use of different softwares for maintaining the health and safety standards at the workplaces, information regarding this would also be helpful for further analysis on the same subject. Conclusion As per the legal principles of the health and safety act in 2005 the employees of an organisation could not be victimized for utilising his own rights that has been stated under health and safety legislation like just placing a complaint. This simply means that an individual could not be dismissed from his duty just because of a simple compliant that has been placed (Burton, et al 2010). The Injury board which is entitled for the employees safety is mainly noticed to supply with an assessment of compensation for the individual who is not seeking any proper forms of liability. All types of claims at the workplaces should be supplied to the Injury board for their legal proceedings. Individual Reflection Safety and health at workplace has now become one of the major concern at the workplaces, as member of a group, personally I undertook the research on the current topic to bring into view the different health and safety measures that are now utilised by various public organisations. In contrary to the responsibility I was able to gather ample information from the different journals and websites relevant to the research topic. Personally I had experienced lots of issues while gathering information like there was less availability of information and only general informations were available. Expensive tools could be utilised as it would cross the budgeted estimated for the research. While carrying out the group work learnt about different new safety and health measures which are utilised by public organisations now for maintaining health and safety at workplace. References Asfahl, C. R., Rieske, D. W. (2010). Industrial safety and health management. Prentice Hall. 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