Blog 2: Web Based Occupational Safety and Health

            Human recourse information system is stand-alone software for any areas in human resource management that used information system. The areas in human resource management are compensation and benefits, recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, training and development, employee record management and occupational safety and health.

            Occupational safety and health in organization are encouraged to have a proper rules and regulations towards the operation of company. This rules and regulations will drive employees to be more careful and effectively in doing their job, especially worker at high risk place such as plant. According to Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994, section 4 (a) to secure the safety, health and welfare of persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons at work. That is mean manager and organization must to ensure that all employees in safe condition even they are working at high risk organization. Besides, sometimes the legislation role may not be appropriate to use if the level of awareness is low among employees (Surienty, 2012).

            However, sometime an accident occurs because of in inappropriate activities. According to Goetsch (2011), human error can be result as inappropriate activities. For instance, a person who undertakes a task that other people does not know how to do. Therefore, inappropriate activities will lead to accident and injuries at workplace.

            In organization, not only employer must take an action to reduce an accident, but employee also has to work hard in order to prevent an accident. There are several responsibilities and right of employers and employees have to know. Employers need to inform and train staff to ensure OSH practices are understood among employees and team members. Besides, employer should have a discussion with employees in order to solve their problem that relating to OSH at workplace.

            Besides, employees also need to work in safety condition, on other words they need to work safely in order to protect them during working time. If employees are facing an accident, they should report the incident to the manager, this is responsibility that employees must have. Reporting an accident very important to top management, this is because top management will take initiative to control and reduce accidents among employees. Therefore, every people in organization must take a responsibility to work safety and health condition.

            However, in construction field there are tools that can be used for hazard prevention. According to Zhou and friends (2012), tools like virtual reality, 4D CAD and geographic information system will help them to addressing safety issues.

References:

1)      Lilis Surienty, (2012).  Management Practices and OSH Implementation in SMEs in  

Malaysia. School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

2)      David L. Goetsch, (2011). Occupational Safety and Health for Technologist, Engineers,

and Managers. Prentice Hall. New jersey.

3)      Zhou, W., Whyte, J. and Sacks, R. (2012). Construction Safety and Digital Design: A Review, Automation in Construction. Elsevier Ltd.