OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Table of Contents
1. Executive summary.....................................................................................................................2
2. Occupational Health and Safety.................................................................................................2
2.1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................2
2.2. Aim of study.........................................................................................................................3
2.3. Issues with OHS...................................................................................................................3
2.4. Scope of study.......................................................................................................................4
3. Analysis of Henkel iberica on Occupational Health and Safety...............................................4
3.1. Senior management responsibilities...................................................................................4
3.2. Occupational health and safety achievements in Henkel iberica.....................................5
3.3. Benefits due to OHS or injury prevention.........................................................................5
3.4. Development of Occupational Health and Safety culture.................................................6
4. Conclusion................................................................................................................................6
5. Recommendations....................................................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................................7

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1. Executive summary
In advanced situation work environment security and wellbeing or occupational health and
safety assumes essential part. The aim or point of the report is to investigate and scrutinize
the viability of human resource management systems for occupational health and safety in
any association. Part of senior administration is one of the important parts or it is compulsory
in any association to impact and energize alternate workers. There are six segments which
coordinates the occupational health and safety management. Authoritative adequacy can just
accomplished by focusing on the vital coordination. Occupational health and safety can be
connected in regular life by three stages firstly by investigating the danger and afterward
surveying the danger and after that hazard will be controlled. Human resource management
deeply affects goodness of OHSM. Human resource management gives and sort out training
to representatives to build up their expertise to dissecting, evaluating and controlling the
danger to secure the working environment and to keep up the wellbeing in working
environment. Wounds and mishaps build the misfortune time and cost of item and it likewise
diminish the benefit. Avoidance of wounds and accidents will give benefit and diminish lost
time of the organization. Security on work environment must be accomplished by giving
trainings, applying gauges and by watching the exercises of representatives and by
phenomenal cooperation

2. Occupational Health and Safety

2.1. Introduction
OHS is occupational health and safety. Occupational health and safety can also said work
place safety and health. It came into force for every industry and department of world. It is a
basic right of every employee to get a safe environment. It is protecting the safety, health and
welfare during work or in employment. Occupational health and safety play vital role in
modern world. Before the typical expected time exploration is finished by some incredible
therapist and sociologists discovered individual miens and causes identified with social part
using unique system in ideas of creating and knowledge of hypothetical into OHS (Dawson
and Zanko, 2011).

As we know that health is related to OHS, so health can be defined as “complete state of
mental, physical and social well being”

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Figure 1: Health (Self-made)

2.2. Aim of study

Point of study is to examine and breaking down the adequacy for word related wellbeing and
security of human resource management system. Motivation behind study is additionally to
examine the part of senior administration when human resource management is deliberately
incorporated working on this issue of Henkel iberica study.

2.3. Issues with OHS

The issues with Occupational health and safety are discussed in the following points

 Senior Management Commitment

In OHS senior management commitment is necessary. Senior management play vital
role in implementation of rules. Injuries can we reduce when senior management will
understand their responsibilities regarding OHS

 Employees attitude
Occupational health and safety can only be implemented, when employees and
employer both understand their responsibilities regarding to workplace health and
safety

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2.4. Scope of study

This report is basically concentrate on the obligations of senior administration responsibility
in regards to OHS coordination in every day workplace, preferences of OHS and wellbeing
society of working environment and additionally usage of new thoughts to forestall hazard
and to make working environment more secure.

3. Analysis of Henkel iberica on Occupational Health and

Safety
3.1. Senior management responsibilities
Wellbeing and security is intense and under perceived issue of Australia. The main argue for
significance of expanding individual obligations and responsibility of senior administration of
corporate for occupational health and safety improvement upkeep in work environment
(Karen 2005)
 Implementation of safety rules: This is the major responsibility of senior
management. Safety rules are made to protect employees from risks. Implementations
of safety rules are mandatory in workplace.

 Formation of prevention team: In Henkel iberica, they made 9 members prevention

team consisting of two doctors. This time regularly watched workplace and they
reported to C.E.O of Henkel iberica.

 Monitoring: Senior administration checked the new complaint in individual and

group level. we can also say that regular review of SHE performance

 Ensuring of Safety, health and environment (SHE): they are likewise mindful to
guarantee that wellbeing and environment is considered or work legitimately or not.
Senior administration watches Safety, health and environment framework that they
have a powerful framework or not.

 Auditing: Senior administration additionally in charge of the outer and inward

evaluating of SHE principles.

 Common law: They likewise have an obligation to make a typical law for laborers
for their wellbeing and security

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3.2. Occupational health and safety achievements in Henkel iberica

The danger that an occasion or activity will antagonistically influence the association
capacity to accomplish its goals and execute its methodologies successfully (Turner,
Hunsucker, 1999). Dangers are decreased by procedure includes hazard distinguishing proof,
surveying of danger and controlling the danger (shivasankaran 2014). Some companies are
not more attentive towards the occupational health and safety. They give attention after
accident on workplace. Occupation health and safety can only be possible with the integration
of staff and rules. Henkel iberica integrates the role employees. In Henkel iberica,
occupational health and safety is prior responsibility or individual responsibility of every
person of an organization. Managers play a vital role in implementation of safety, health and
environment (SHE). Senior management audits the safety and health rules and SHE
documentation. Documentation is one of the best ideas to make SHE rules to come into
account. OHSM make health and safety rules for our daily work life. Henkel iberica achieved
its goal of reducing the injuries and accidents. OHS is exceptionally fruitful because of
settled harmony between lawful issues, hazard administration, and authoritative individuals
or rehearses. In Henkel iberica 30 page documents is made and this document is of safety and
health rules and regulation, which are implemented on the workplace. After implementation
of this 30 page document of rules and regulations injury time and accidents are reduced with
high speed.

3.3. Benefits due to OHS or injury prevention

There are several benefits after commitment of senior management by providing safety as
well as resources. After observing the SHE standards and implementation of 30 pages rules
and regulation in Henkel iberica organization, OHS or injury prevention provide various
advantages

 Reduction of injury time: after SHE rules and regulations implementations injuries
are reduced. In Henkel iberica, there is total number of 96 lost time injuries in 1996,
after implementation of SHE standards it reduces to 48 in 1999. Therefore, injury
time is reduced automatically after implementation of rules and regulations.
 Rise of profit: Due to injury prevention, profit of company is rise. If employees feel
safe and healthy automatically he will work with his full energy. Safer environment or
workplace internally motivates the employees. It also decrease hazard and accidents
cost, which also helps to give profit to organization.

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 OSHA 18001 certification: Henkel iberica get OSHA 18001 certification after
implementation of SHE standards. OSHA 18001 certification provides health and
safety assurance to employees.

3.4. Development of Occupational Health and Safety culture

Occupational health and safety development is very important to maintain health and safety
culture in the workplace. There are several points to maintain and development of safety in an
organisation
 Training: Training on health and safety should be providing to employees to
make environment safer.
 SHE knowledge: HRM department should provide knowledge about SHE to
employees. They have to organise some social events on SHE.
 Senior management commitment: senior management commitment is
mandatory for safer workplace environment or to motivate the employees
towards safety.

4. Conclusion
The main focus of this report is on implementation of rules and regulation and benefits earn
by senior management commitment towards occupational health and safety in Henkel iberica
case study. It can be concluded that OHSM, HRM and benefits are related to each other.
HRM plays very important role in occupational health and safety management. Strong HRM
can provide and audit the implementation of SHE standards at regular intervals to make
workplace environment safer for work. Implementation of SHE standards will rise the profit
of the company and reduce the injury time lost.

5. Recommendations

 Different safety equipments should be installed in the workplace, so that during

emergency it will help to fight against hazard. Some safety equipments like gloves,
nose mask, fire extinguishers, ear plugs etc.
 Some mock drills should be organized on monthly basis to fight against dangerous
situation in workplace.
 A doctor and psychology counselors should be appointed for employees to fight
against stress. So that they can work in organization with full concentration.
 Different color coding should be used in industry on equipments to recognize the
danger like red color coding for dangerous material, green for safe material.

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 Senior management and workers meetings should be organized to understand the

importance of health and safety on work.
 Employees should eat nutritious food and also to drink more water so that they will
protect their self from dehydration

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