Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Web- Based Occupational Safety and Health




Occupational safety and health can be defined as a procedure that every occupational must have a proper protocol that will protect the employees from any form of danger in their workplace. The purpose of occupational safety and health is including fostering a safe and healthy work environment to the employees (Friend, 2010). However, it is the responsibility of human resource manager to take the role to teach the employee regarding the proper safety steps to be taken in any kind of situation.

Before this the managers need to make a workshops or seminars to explain to the employee regarding occupational safety and health. These are the traditional ways of doing things, but with technology, the managers are able to make all the occupational safety and health steps standardized and uploaded it into the websites for the convenience of both employee and managers. By doing so, it can save the time of employee and managers from doing any seminars and workshop regarding occupational safety and health.

By using web based occupational safety and health we can train employers and employee in an internet-based OSHA expert compliance assistance system. The application will cover the usage of an internet-based diagnostic software system that will use an on-line interview process that will give a compliances profile for each facility that are covered by the interviews and even a comprehensive on how to do list to help the user on managing the compliances.

Web based occupational safety and health could use to promoting safety and health in the organization and community. The information must be customized for each facility that follow according to the facility needs and will be kept current over the internet. Next the system must be capable to be automatically downloading, indexing, viewing and even printing the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) file for future report purposes and updating the user profiles over the internet automatically.


Employers must to examine the workplace conditions to make sure they are conforming to applicable standards. This is to avoid the accident happen in the workplace that will make the injury to the workers. So, the company must be very familiar with mandatory the OSHA standards. When employees are working in a safe and healthy organization, the organization will reduced cost in terms of workers' compensation costs and medical expenses, reduce product damage and reduce the cost of the accommodation of injured workers. Productivity will also increase if the employee in an organization is safe and healthy and the cost of replacement workers can also be reduced and employees who work overtime may also be reduced.

Next we can achieve on the training materials that are well suits up for the purposes of both training employers and employees needs on proper occupational safety and health procedure. In conclusion, the web based safety and health could bring a lot of advantages for both employers and employees. We must always give attention to occupational safety and health issues, because this is very important to our occupational safety right.        


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