Group 4

Andom | Carpio | Hadjula | Que

BSIE 3A
4. Describe how a company may respond to the
trauma resulting from a workplace emergency.
The typical approach to an emergency in a workplace can be described as follows:
control it, take care of the injured, clean up the mess, and get back to work.
It is best if a company has a Trauma response team (TRT) in the workplace which may
consist of safety and health personnel who have undergone special training or fully
credentialed counseling personnel, depending on the size of the company. The job of the
TRT is to intervene as early as possible, help employees acknowledge what they have
experienced, and give them opportunities to express how they feel about it to people
who are qualified to help.
Part of the trauma training that safety and health professionals receive involves
recognizing the symptoms of employees who need professional care and referring them
to qualified care providers. In working with employees who need to deal with what they
have experienced, but are not so traumatized as to require referral for outside
professional care, a group approach is best.
6. What is the black-and-white approach, and how
can it help workers' ethics?
Black and white thinking is a thought pattern that makes people think in absolutes. For
instance, you may think you are either always right or the world’s biggest failure. Black and
white thinking doesn’t allow you to find the middle ground, which can be hard to sustain in
life at those extremes. Becoming less rigid in thinking, let's stop using “all or nothing”
statements to depress ourselves without examining whether or not they’re true. Using this
'cognitive' technique helps higher ups to spot what they are doing and challenge the false
impressions.

When difficult decisions have to be made, supervisors or general manager should make an
ethical, fair and impartial choices and let the chips fall where they may, regardless of the
short-term circumstances they should do the right thing.
Thank You!