Employee Health and Safety

Paper Summary:

This research paper attempts to find answers to health and safety questions and concerns and ways to balance the need for speedy and voluminous work with the well-being that will ensure the quality of such work. In focusing on three workplace areas, the study also attempts to benefit specific areas of work that are notorious for their lack of health and safety. Specifically, the research attempts to not only find find justifications for individual actions, as it were, but to curb the self-destructive tendencies of such individuals by empowering them with knowledge. In short, the paper attempts to further a deeper understanding of the issues relating to individual health and safety in the workplace, motivations for ignoring these, and find methods to curb the apparent self-destructive nature of workers placing the job ahead of their own needs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Study Design and Methodology
Aims and Objectives of the Study
Literature Survey
The Role of Industry
Health and Safety: Employer Responsibility
Health and Safety: Employee Responsibility
Health and Safety Solutions
Data Collection and Analysis
Research Instruments
Limitations of Data
Presentation of Data
Discussion and Correlation of Findings
Correlation of Literature with Hypotheses
Correlation of Findings with Hypotheses
Conclusions and Recommendations
Recommendations for Future Study
Final Comments

From the Paper:

"It is a sad testament to human integrity that a constitutional right such as basic health and safety at work is so often ignored in favor of the work itself. Indeed, this paradigm is reminiscent of the industrial revolution, where mill owners were concerned only with the amount of money they could line their pockets with. According to the respondents in this study, Health and Safety is regarded as one of the most important workplace issues today. As such, it is not acceptable that workers could ignore it for the sake of either fear or loyalty. It is much less acceptable that managers and employers could disregard health and safety issues, and go as far as firing workers who refuse to do so."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Casciani, Dominic. 2005. Morecambe Bay: One year on. BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4238209.stm
• Health & Safety Executive. 2004. "Your health, your safety: A guide for workers". HSE 27, Nov, 2004. http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse27.pdf
• Health & Safety Executive. 2006. "Workplace health, safety and welfare: A short guide for managers." HSE, Sept, 2006. www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg244.pdf
• Health & Safety Executive. 2007. "Whistleblowing". http://www.hse.gov.uk/workers/whistleblowing.htm
• Health & Safety Executive. 2008. Looking after your business. http://www.hse.gov.uk/business/must-do.htm

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