A Safe and Healthy Work

Environment
Rivera Kathrin
Febryanti Mandasari
Patrick Yonglie
Atipa Chaichaum
Mugia Soegono

Nature Of Role and Safety and

Health
Safety : Involves protecting employees from injuries due
to work-related accidents
Health : Refers to the employees freedom from physical
or emotional illness.
Good health and safety saves lives and is an integral
element of every business, making the role of the health
and safety officer one of the most important within the
workplace.

Enforcing OSHA Standard

OSHA : Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Workplace inspection: -Opening Conference
-Walkthrough
-Closing Conference
Citation : Citations inform the employer and employees of the regulations and standards
alleged to have been violated and of the proposed length of time set to correct alleged
hazards

Penalties

-Willfull
-Repeated
-Failure to abate

- Serious

Enforcing OSHA Standard

On site consultation : Consultation assistance is available on
request to employers who want help in establishing and
maintaining a safe and healthful workplace
Voluntary protection program(VPP) : Voluntary Protection
Programs and onsite consultation services, when coupled with an
effective enforcement program, expand worker protection to help
meet the goals of the OSH Act,VPP are designed to recognize
outstanding achievements by companies that have developed and
implemented effective safety and health management systems

Enforcing OSHA Standard

Training and education: OSHAs area offices offer a
variety of information services, such as compliance
assistance, technical advice, publications, audiovisual
aids, and speakers for special engagements.
https://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha2098.pdf

Hazardous Materials Regulation

Right-to-Know Laws
Laws that require employers to advise employees about the hazardous
chemicals they handle.

Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)

OSHA-published hazardous chemical regulations known as the HCS
prescribes a system for communicating data on health risks of
handling certain materials.

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)

Documents that contain vital information about hazardous substances.

Promoting a safe work

environment
Creating a culture of safety
A culture of safety exist when everyone within an organization consciously works to
improve its safety and health conditions. Managers should set goals on how many
unit safety meetings should be held quarterly and measure goal achievement
The Key Role of the Supervisor
Supervisor play a key role in their employers safety programs.
- Communicating the need to work safely to employee.
- Supervisors must continually observe employees at work, reinforce safe
practices, immediately
correct behaviors that are unsafe

Promoting a safe work

environment
Interviewing for safety and fitness for duty tests
- Encourage supervisors to incorporate safety into their
interviews with job candidates
- Conduct Fitness for duty tests : Evaluations randomly
conducted to determine and employees physical, mental
and emotional fitness for a job.

Promoting a safe work

environment
Proactive safety training programs
- Safety lecturers and courses, printed, audiovisual
material are common. An interactive way to provide
employees safety training is using games.
- HR professionals and safety directors in particular
advocate the employee involvement in designing and
implementing safety programs
-Employees are more likely to embrace safety training
when they feel a sense of ownership in the instructional
program.

Typical Safety Rules

Using proper safety devices

Using proper work procedures
Following good housekeeping practices
Complying with accident- and injury-reporting procedures
Wearing required safety clothing and equipment
Avoiding carelessness and horseplay

What Is Stress?
Stressare mood Or feelings that arise when dealing with
issues that are uncomfortable grievances or are crushed.
Distress (negative
stress):stress created
uneasiness
embarrassment.
Eustress(positive
stress):Use stress as
an incentive to do
something successfully.

Stress caused by three

reasons.
1. psychological reasons
2. Changing
3. physical illness

Job Related To Stress

Sources of Job-Related Stress
1. High demand
2. High effort
3. Low control
4. Low reward
5. Many workloads
6. Administrative methods
7. Employee relations with manager.
8. The stability and the progress of work.
9. Work environment

To Deal With Stress

StressManagement
1. 1. Yoga
2. 2. Meditation
3. 4. Play with pets or small children.
4. 5. controlled substance such as sugar and coffee in reasonable amounts.
5. 6. Enough sleep
6. 7. Eat healthy food
7. 8. Stay with friends or family
8. 9. Exercise get some morning sun.
9. 10. Make your life easier by doing what is possible.