HRMT20024 Assessment Managing Workplace Health and Safety

HRMT20024 Assessment 1
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Week 10 Managing workplace health and safety
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Making Work Less Stressful and More Engaging for Your Employees
• Managing work stress as it is a health hazard
• Wellness program reduces healthcare spending and absenteeism
• Employees at stress situation due to uncertain expectancy, unreasonable
goals and hectic working environment
• Shifting of employees towards organizational level approaches to reduce
workplace stress
• Reduction of workplace stress as well as increase into employee engagement

Objective of the Article
• To create working environment for decreasing in stress
The sub-objectives of this main objective are:
 Raising psychological safety of employees working in business
 Creating a fixed break time for employees
 Usage of private places for working in workplace
 Fixing a strict boundaries
 Implementing a flexible working procedures
• Building in employee engagement
The sub-objectives of this main objective are:
 Become transparent
 Making sure that people are properly assigned to job role
 Providing a sign of autonomy
 Providing employee engagement
 Culture towards employee recognition
 Focusing on employee growth

Method used in the article
• Secondary data collection method through analysing the peer review articles
on the topic- manage health and safety
• Analysing the books- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological
Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
• Involving to gather information as well as data which are gathered by
someone for research purposes

Findings of the study
• Causes of stress in workplace are long time working
hours and heavy workload
• Lessening in performance of employees in workplace and
level of depression
• Human brain are focused for 90-120 minutes before they
are taking rest
• Solutions provided as giving employees with clear goals
and inviting people to speak into meetings
• Conducting brainstorming sessions
• Nearly 40% of employees are known about strategic goals
of business
• As per 2.5 million teams, managers are interacted with
direct reports on regular basis

Conclusion
• Stress is leading causes of behaviour of workplace
employees
• Due to outside disturbance in the workplace and
workload from manager, workplace stress caused
• Reflecting into lower productivity in performance
and lack of employee motivation
• Dealing with stress is part of life as trying to
balance personal as well as working life

Contribution to week’s topic
• Handling of workplace stress before it gets out of hand and becoming more
for the employees to handle it by self
• Conducting training as well as working program
• Performing brainstorming sessions in order to overcome workplace stress
• Learning to deal with workplace stress by enhancing individual in addition to
workplace performance
• Maintenance of a healthy working environment for the employees

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