Importance of Health and Safety at Workplace for Improving Performance and Productivity

Inquiry Based
Learning
(Health and Safety at work)
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Executive Summary
This project is based on the topic of health and safety at workplace for ascertaining its
importance in improving performance and productivity of employees within Aston Martin. In
order to achieve this purpose, different numbers of activities or tasks were completed. Literature
review was done by using secondary sources with purpose to overcoming research gap. Number
of methods used by researcher under research methodology section for collecting primary data.
Questionnaire is a main instrument of primary data collection that was gathered information
about the health and safety at work. In researching and findings frequency table was prepared for
analysing quantitative data and Graphs were developed with the use of MS-Excel. Conclusion
and recommendation is last tasks that helped researcher in summarising entire information about
the topic in small manner.
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Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Research Objectives.........................................................................................................................4
Research questions...........................................................................................................................4
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................5
How health and safety is important at workplace of an organisation?........................................5
What are the impacts of health and safety at work in improving employee’s performance and
productivity?................................................................................................................................5
What are the effective ways by which Aston Martin can develop safe and healthier working
environment for their employees?...............................................................................................6
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................7
Researching......................................................................................................................................8
Findings..........................................................................................................................................12
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
Appendix........................................................................................................................................16
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Introduction
Health and safety at work introduces to the right of every worker, regardless of industry or
organisation, to do daily work of worker within a safe environment. In this business employers
are liable for health and safety management in a workplace. This means ensuring that employees
and other staff members are protected from everything that may cause harm, controlling any type
of risks or hazard to injury or health that could happen at workplace (Bayram, Ünğan and Ardıç,
2017). For this project Aston Martin is a chosen independent manufacture of grand toures and
luxury sports cars that was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin in 1913. At this place
health and safety is highly require that will be beneficial for company to follow health and safety
work act 1974 and protect their all workers from any kind of risk. This turns to helps in
improvement of employee’s productivity and performance that resulted in higher sales and better
reputation in marketplace.
Research Aim: To identify the importance of health and safety at workplace in improving
performance and productivity of employees. A study on Aston Martin.
Research Objectives
 To determine about the importance of health and safety at workplace of an organisation.
 To explore the impact of health and safe in improving employee’s performance and
productivity at workplace.
 To analysis the ways by which Aston Martin can develop safely and healthier working
environment for their employees.
Research questions
 How health and safety is important at workplace of an organisation?
 What are the impacts of health and safety at work in improving employee’s performance and
productivity?
 What are the effective ways by which Aston Martin can develop safely and healthier
working environment for their employees?
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