Blog 2: Web-based Occupational Safety and Health

Web-based on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) are one of the primary areas in human resource Management that using the information system. Nowadays, many organizations using this to promoted their safety and health in workplace.

This web-based has their important function in the organization. One of the functions is like as said before to promoting safety and health in the community. Others is to educate them and training, consultancy services and also to under going research and development. Information dissemination is also one of the functions of this OSH web.

One of the important acts in organization is Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). OSHA set the general standards, regulations and procedures to the industry and commands the organization to keeping record about occupational injuries and illness. OSHA also has the inspection priorities. These inspections are important to imminent danger situations, inspections of catastrophes, fatalities and accidents that have already occurred, inspections that related to valid employee complaints and also periodic and random inspections.

The employer and employee will get problems and get into trouble if disregard this OSHA. Some of the ways to get into this trouble if the employer ignore about safety issues, lies within the inspections, do not correct the hazards, ignore safety rules and industrial hygiene issues.

Because of that problems can occurred, that why the employer and employee must know their right and responsibility in OSHA. One of the important responsibility of the employer is must provide a workplace that free from hazard and to the employee is to follow all employer safety and health rules and regulations. One of the rights that employer must have is to seek advice and off site consultation from OSHA and one of the employee right in OSHA is to demand safety and health on the job without fear of punishment.

For example, employer must carry their responsibilities seriously about provide workplace that free from hazard such as employer can put the sign “danger” in the danger place, or if doing cleaning progress put sign “slippery floor”. Employer also put more information about the important to stay health and safety in their web of OSH.

In this topic, I get more understand when read through the case that Dr. Nur Naha attach “Employee involvement to improve safety in the workplace: An ethical imperative”. This case showed that employer must always update and care about the hazard in the workplace that can harm the employee safety and health. When use the Employee Involvement model to do the improvement, it can increased job satisfaction and greater health in the organization. 

References

Cascio, Wayne F. 2003. Managing Human Resources, Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profit (6^th ed.): McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Michael J. Kavanagh, Mohan Thite, Richard D. Johnson. 2012. Human Resource Information Systems: Basics, Applications, and Future Directions (2^nd ed.): SAGE Publications, Inc.

Wendell L. French. 2007. Human Resource Management (6^th ed): Houghton Mifflin Company.

http://www.dosh.gov.my/doshv2/phocadownload/guidelines/garispanduan33.pdf