ARTICLE 2: WEB BASED OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Hello everyone, ‘Web Based Occupational Safety and Health’ is an interesting to discussed and analyze. Based on presentation activity (19th  November 2012 and 26^th November 2012 /  Monday) by NurAziemahRossli and NurulAmeraBinti Abdullah group, I can take many inputs and knowledge about web based occupational safety and health. Generally, occupational safety and health act 1994 is very important to organization to protect employee from accident and give awareness about safety and health in workplace. From the presentation also I understand why companies need effective safety and health management? This is because the responsibilities of employers and workers to ensure that safety are maintained in work. Besides that, the important things I took away from the presentation activity is I understand and learn about how to implement Organizational Safety and Health in organizations.

From this reflection, I also can categorize and understand about element of occupational safety and health such as:

1)      Policy

2)      Organizing

3)      Planning and Implementing

4)      Measuring Performance

5)      Audit

6)      Initial and Periodic status review

The explanation of occupational safety and health about policy an example is OSH is one of the recognition of integral part of business performance. From OSH issue also, I can analyze about the advantages of web based occupational safety and health. From my understanding based on the presentation activity is the advantages of using web based is organization can increases the operational efficiencies and systematic to record the data about any accident or organizational safety and health issue in organization. 

Figure 1: Example of web based occupational safety and health applications

Figure 2: Example of web based occupational safety and health record

Figure 3: Example of web based occupational safety and health record

From the figure 1 until figure 2, we know that web based occupational safety and health can be an effective and help organization become systematic. Besides that, according to Dessler (2011) in their book Human Resource Managementthere are three basic causes of workplace accidents: chance occurrences, unsafe conditions, and employees’ unsafe acts. Unsafe conditions include things like improperly guarded equipment and hazardous procedures. Unsafe acts sometimes reflect personality traits such as impatience and distractibility ( Dessler, 2011 ).

In conclusion, from this reflection, I very clear and understand about the meaning and concept web based occupational safety and health. This is important as a first step to me use this application before I start working in organizations.

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References:

Dessler, G. (2012). Human Resource Management. New Jersey: Pearson.

Kavanagh, M.J., Mohan Thite., & Johnson, R.D.  ( 2012 ). Human Resources Information

            Systems: Basic, Applications and Future Directions. California. Sage Publications.