Health, Safety and Post-Employment

Health, Safety and Post

Employment

Occupational and Health and
Safety Health and Safety
Programs and Activities

Accident Prevention

Post-Employment

Termination
Lay-off
Disability Death
Retirement







Figure.1.1 Strategic Relationship of Health, Safety, and Post Employment with Other HRM Functions

Health and Safety
Employee Productivity
-based on the state of his overall well-being and the conditions around his workplace.

Key functions of HRM.
-provide a health and safety of employee.

World Health Organization (WHO)
-it defines health as a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity.




Other HRM Functions

Recruitment
Training and Development
Compensation
Labor Relations
Organizational Goals

Profit
Productivity
Employee Satisfaction
Customer Satisfaction
Development of New/Better Products
Expansion to Global Market
Occupational Health
-it deals with diseases, injury, injury prevention, rehabilitation and other conditions that happen
in the workplace.

Occupational illness
-any illness caused by environmental factors, the exposure to which is unique to a particular
process, trade or occupation to which an employee is not ordinarily o subjected or exposed
outside of or far away from such employment.

Safety
-is the state of being certain that some agent under defined conditions will not cause adverse
effects.

Occupational safety
-this means dealing with accidents that are primarily a result of human and or technical error.

The Extensive benefits from this following are the proper attention to workers health and safety.

1. Healthy workers
-are a key strategy for overcoming poverty

2. Safe Workplace
-the processes of protecting workers, surrounding communities and the environment for the
future generations have important common elements, such as pollution control and exposure
resolution.

3. Occupational Safety and health
-can contribute to improving the employability of workers, through workplace (re)design,
maintenance of a healthy and retraining assessment of work demands medical diagnosis, health
screening and assessment of functional capacities.

4. Occupational health
- is fundamental to public health for it is increasingly clean that major diseases, need workplace
programs as part of the disease control strategy.


Dr. Benjamin Amick III
-is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) and an associate professor at
the University of Texas Health Science Center.

International Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD)
-in 1997 research study thus women working in the semiconductor industry exhibit reproductive
problems due constant chronic exposure to toxic chemicals.





The Philippines Occupational Safety and Health Standards manual consider the following hazardous
workplaces:

1. Nature of Work Exposes to dangerous environmental on work conditions.

Example:
Ionizing
Radiation
Chemicals fire
Flammable Substances
Noxious Components

2. Where the workers are engaged in construction work, logging, fire, fighting, mining, quarrying,
blasting, stevedoring, dock work, deep sea fishing and mechanized farming.

3. Engaged in the manufactures of handling of explosives and other polytechnic products.

4. Use or are expose to power driver or explosive biological agents

Example:
Bacteria
Fungi
Viruses
Protozoa
Nematodes and other parasites

Ensure Employees safety and good health (11%)

Sustain productivity (3%)

Maintain total health and fitness of the employees (3%)

Develop work efficiency (2%)

Avoid absenteeism (2%)

Maintain customer patronage (1%)

Provide preventive and curative health services (1%)

Follow government requirements (1%)

Figure 1.2 Objectives in Instilling Health and Safety Programs (survey conducted among 330
companies in 2003)

It shows the primary purpose of local companies in having safety and health programs.