Why We Need Occupation Safety & Health at Workplace

In today's article, I will explain why we need occupational safety and health in the workplace.

There is much reason for having Occupational safety and health at the site but in this article, I will discuss only three basic reasons for having and follow occupational Safety and health at the workplace.

1.            Moral Reason

2.            Legal Reason

3.            Financial Reason

Moral Reason

For the employee, a safety organization is morally & legally responsible. As an employee human does not expect risk to his life and limb in the organization.  Moral reason imposes by society regarding what is right and what is wrong. Moral reason is key for occupational health and safety.

Legal Reason

Occupational Health & Safety is a legal requirement in all countries and regions. For sure there is a different requirement in different countries and regions but if not followed organization will face legal consequences like fines and sometimes fully close the business.

After the country and region legal requirement there is another requirement like ILO or ISO, OSHA, etc.

To cover the legal requirement and avoiding the fines and other legal consequences employer must have a proper OHS system in place. The OHS system must cover all legal requirements. Employers make sure the OHS system available and implemented. OHS system must be measure and audit against set objectives and targets.

Financial Reason

Finance or Money is important or key for all businesses. All business organizations work for money and want their revenue higher and higher.

Occupational Safety & Health is one of the key business which impacts all businesses in the world and all organization required to follow for developing their business.

If an organization does not have an OHS system and having incident and accident in the organization this will huge cost impact on the organization.

Direct cost

Direct cost is a cost directly from the incident like asset damage, Injury treatment in hospital, fines, insurance, and another direct cost where money involves directly.

Indirect cost

Indirect cost is hidden like an iceberg. Indirect cost like after the immediate incident work stoppages, Investigation cost like how many employees involved in incident investigation hours lost. New hiring training sessions or other outcomes from incident investigations.

Reputation Cost

Reputation cost is a major cost. Companies made their reputation in years and if an incident happens in an organization due to not having or not following occupational safety and health systems reputation will lose in days.

Employees won't work for an organization having bad OHS systems and clients don't won’t work with an organization having bad OHS systems. Employee morale down and they try to leave the company.

 

Due to above all reasons, organizations must have OHS systems and organizations make sure the OHS system followed in an organization at all levels.

Thanks to read my article.

Sallat Daurez