🧐 Did you know that both employers and employees have a role to play in maintaining health and safety at the workplace?
Employers' Health & Safety Responsibilities 💼
Employers have a legal and moral obligation to ensure the health and safety of their employees. This includes:
- Providing a safe working environment
- Implementing safe systems of work
- Providing adequate welfare facilities
- Offering necessary information, instruction, training, and supervision
- Ensuring machinery and substances are safe to use
Employees' Health & Safety Responsibilities 👩💼👨💼
Employees also have responsibilities to ensure their own health and safety and that of their colleagues. These include:
- Taking reasonable care of their own health and safety
- Cooperating with their employer on health and safety matters
- Using work items provided by their employer correctly
- Not interfering with or misusing anything provided for their health, safety, or welfare
📋 The 5-Step Health & Safety Management Procedure
This procedure is a systematic approach to managing health and safety in the workplace. Here's how it works:
Identify Hazards 🕵️♀️: This involves recognizing things that may cause harm and assessing the risks associated with these hazards.
Example: A hazard could be a slippery floor, which poses a risk of employees slipping and injuring themselves.
Assess Risks 📝: This involves understanding the nature of the harm that could be caused by the hazard, how serious the harm could be, and the likelihood of it happening.
Example: The risk of the slippery floor could be assessed as high if the floor is frequently wet and many people walk over it.
Control Risks 🎛️: This involves implementing the most effective control measure that is reasonably practicable in the circumstances.
Example: The risk could be controlled by mopping the floor regularly and putting up a "wet floor" sign.
Monitor and Review 👀: This involves checking that the control measure is working and reviewing it regularly to make sure it remains effective.
Example: Regular checks could be made to ensure the floor is kept dry and the sign is in place.
Record Findings 📊: This involves keeping a record of the hazard, the risk assessment, and the control measures implemented.
Example: A log could be kept of when the floor was checked, who by, and what action was taken.
By understanding and implementing these responsibilities and procedures, we can create a safer and healthier workplace for everyone.
Class Sessions
1- Introduction
2- Types of Businesses and Ownership: Understand the different types of businesses and their ownership structures.
3- Stakeholders: Identify the various stakeholders that influence the purpose of organizations.
4- Organizational Structure: Understand how businesses are organized.
5- Business Targets: Describe the different types of targets that businesses aim to achieve.
6- Achieving Business Targets: Identify the strategies and methods businesses can use to achieve their targets.
7- Factors Affecting Businesses: Identify the legal, political, and social factors that can impact businesses.
8- Impact of Political, Legal, and Social Factors: Describe how political, legal, and social factors can affect businesses.
9- Introduction
10- Human resource management: Understanding the process of selecting employees and the importance of employability and personal and communication skills.
11- Managing physical and technological resources: Recognizing the importance of physical and technological resources in employee selection.
12- Accessing different sources of finance: Identifying various sources of finance available for organizations.
13- Understanding financial statements:Understanding the importance of financial statements in evaluating the financial health of an organization.
14- Introduction
15- Importance of marketing in an organisation: Understand the significance of marketing in a business and how it contributes to its success.
16- Marketing research and planning: Learn about the process of conducting marketing research and using it to develop an effective marketing plan.
17- Targeting customer groups: Understand the concept of targeting specific customer groups and the reasons behind it.
18- Developing a coherent marketing mix: Learn how to create a well-rounded marketing mix for a new product or service.
19- Introduction
20- Human resources planning in organisations: Understanding the factors involved in planning for human resources in an organisation.
21- Employee motivation in organisations: Understanding how organisations motivate their employees.
22- Employee performance management: Understanding how organisations manage and measure employee performance.
23- Employee cooperation in organisations: Understanding how organisations gain cooperation from their employees.
24- Introduction
25- Types of Business Information: Understanding how organizations use different types of business information to fulfill their purpose.
26- Effective Presentation of Business Information: Knowing how to present business information effectively.
27- Limitations of Business Information: Understanding the limitations in relation to the use of business information in an organization.
28- Communication Methods for Business Information: Knowing how to communicate business information using appropriate methods.
29- Introduction
30- Health and safety legislation and regulations: Understand how health and safety legislation and regulations affect a business working environment.
31- Requirements for a healthy and safe workplace: Know the requirements for healthy, safe productive working conditions.
32- Role and responsibilities of key personnel: Understand the role and responsibilities of key personnel in ensuring health and safety in the workplace.
33- Risk assessment: Be able to assess and manage risk.
34- Introduction
35- Functions and structures of businesses: Understanding the key functions and structures of businesses and their impact on business success.
36- Importance of operational control: Understanding why effective operational control is necessary for an organization.
37- Working towards best practice: Understanding how organizations strive for excellence and quality.
38- Introduction
39- Financial recording and reporting: Understand the requirements for financial recording and reporting.
40- Accounting techniques: Understand accounting techniques.
41- Preparation and format of financial statements: Understand the preparation and format of financial statements.
42- Interpretation of financial information: Know how to interpret financial information.
43- Introduction
44- Leadership roles and functions: Understand the key roles and functions of leaders.
45- Effective leadership skills: Understand the attributes and personal qualities common to effective leaders.
46- Bringing about effective change: Understand how successful leaders bring about effective change.
47- Introduction
48- Organisational culture: Understanding the concept of organisational culture.
49- Influence of culture on business performance: Identifying the impact of culture on business performance.
50- Impact of organisational culture: Understanding the effects of organisational culture on business.
51- Introduction
52- Introduction
53- Self-analysis in entrepreneurial career: Understand the importance of self-analysis in the context of an entrepreneurial career.
54- Critical thinking skills for innovative business ideas: Develop critical thinking skills to generate innovative business ideas.
55- Evaluating entrepreneurial business ideas: Learn how to evaluate and justify entrepreneurial business ideas.
56- Workplace welfare: Understanding the concept of workplace welfare.
57- Health and safety responsibilities: Understanding the responsibilities of employers and employees regarding health and safety.
58- Organizational steps for workplace welfare: Understanding the steps taken by organizations to ensure workplace welfare.
59- Reducing work-related stress: Knowing how to reduce work-related stress.
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