Hres2302 Organizational Behaviour: Health And Assessment Answer

Answer:

1. In hospital, supervisors are responsible for various duties such as, food services, house-keeping services and laundry services. They must ensure the health and safety of all the workers. They need to handle several responsibilities and they are as follows:

Conducting orientation and training of employees: Training is important for them to understand the ways to work with the equipments properly in a safe manner.
Enforcing safe work practices: In order to avoid accidents, supervisors must enforce safety.
• Preventing and correcting workplace hazards: It is the duty of supervisors to remind employees about the ways to prevent hazards.
• Investigating workplace accidents: In order to ensure the number of occupationally injured employees, supervisors must investigate properly.
• Promoting quick return to work: Injured employees, who are on leave in the organization, must be encouraged to return to the work (National Institute of Health Office of Management, n.d.).

2. In order to maintain the occupational health and safety, workers also play a vital role. They also have several responsibilities and they are as follows:

• Following the guidelines: Following the safety guidelines of any organization is always a duty of the workers.
• Gaining enough knowledge: Before handling equipments, workers should get enough knowledge in order to avoid accidents.
• Reporting immediately: If workers find any hazards, they should report to the supervisor immediately.
• Obeying the supervisor: Maintaining a good relationship and obeying the supervisor is necessary to maintain a safe working environment.
• Updating regularly: A regular update of the working practices can be helpful to avoid hazards (Health and Safety Management in Healthcare, 2010).

3. There are five different components of health and safety management system.

• Identification of workplace hazards: If any health hazards occur among the workers, while working in the workplace then that should be identified properly.
• Occupational health and safety training: There should be an arrangement of training for the workers about the health and safety in the workplace.
• Workplace inspections: A regular inspection of workplace safety should be done. It will help to identify hazards if any.
• Accident investigation: If any accident occurs in the workplace, then proper investigation should be done to measure the actual amount of loss.
• Accident reporting: Workers should report the occurrence of accidents to their supervisor immediately (Loeppke et al., 2015).

4. According to Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act, all the components of health and safety management system are necessary. It helps to identify the actually causes of health hazards of the employees which in turn, provides an idea to prevent that. The components are helpful in developing a positive working culture in the workplace. Inspection, investigation and reporting of accidents are highly necessary in keeping all the workers safe (Sinelnikov, Inouye & Kerper, 2015).
5. Supervisors should prepare strategic planning or metrics to help the employees with the occupational health and safety law in the hospital area. They should conduct a meeting make all the workers aware of the act. Apart from that, arranging proper training session for the workers about the health and safety law will also be helpful in avoiding the workplace safety hazards among the workers (Sinelnikov, Inouye & Kerper, 2015).

References

Health and Safety Management in Healthcare. (2010). Information sheet. Retrieved from https://www.hsa.ie/eng/Publications_and_Forms/Publications/Healthcare_Sector/Health_and_Safety_Management_in_Healthcare.pdf

Loeppke, R. R., Hohn, T., Baase, C., Bunn, W. B., Burton, W. N., Eisenberg, B. S., ... & Hymel, P. A. (2015). Integrating health and safety in the workplace: how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield measurable benefits. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 57(5), 585-597. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8be5/03edb2dae0b837fa12fd2a4003ff3cdd29e9.pdf 

National Institute of Health Office of Management. (n.d.). Division of Occupational Health and Safety. Retrieved from https://www.ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dohs/HealthAndWellness/Pages/Safety-Responsibilities-for-Supervisors.aspx 

Sinelnikov, S., Inouye, J., & Kerper, S. (2015). Using leading indicators to measure occupational health and safety performance. Safety science, 72, 240-248. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/76a8/881087d69d0f1f30bad551de7ee30d07a74b.pdf