Managing Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

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Contents
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ntroduction...................................................................................
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Health and Wellbeing in workplace .............
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Balancing safety and health with health and wellbeing
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Concept of health and wellbeing program
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Management of health and wellbeing at
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Discussion.
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Conclusion......................................................................................................
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References......................................................................................................
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Introduction
Occupational health and wellbeing are being defined as the concept in
which efforts are made with regard to promote health and wellbeing of
employees at the workplace. Herein, it can be seen that most
responsibility rest on the employer to ensure the safety and health of their
workers (Carroll and et.al., 2018). This is due to the fact that if it is not
done then in this situation image of the firm will be affected in a negative
way if something wrong will happen with employees at the workplace. A
healthy is job is defined such that the pressures given to an employee
matches with his ability to do the work. As healthy does not always mean
by free fromm disease but also it applies to a healthy working
environment which should be free from any type of personal or mental
harm. Some of the common workplace issues that tends to arise among
employees include communication problem, bullying, performance issues,
low motivation and job satisfaction, interpersonal conflict and
discrimination.
Several studies conducted have shown if companies willing to invest in
the health and wellbeing of their workers, they tend to get return benefits
in terms of reduced absenteeism and high productivity (Diener, Oishi &
Lucas, 2015). This shows how much the health and wellbeing of the
employees is important for a company. In this report, the emphasis will be
on the employer’s role to improve the health and well-being of employee.
Detailed strategy to counter the issues will be covered in the following
concepts regarding occupational health and wellbeing program.
Health and wellbeing in workplace
As per the report of the World Health Organization, it is
identified that health is being regarded as the central point of human
happiness as well as wellbeing. The study also indicates that a healthy
population is more productive and always tries to put its best efforts in
relation to the work that is being assigned to them in an effectual way. On
the other hand, for the manufacturing company, it is very important that
employer should put the major focus on the given concepts (Curtis and
O’ferrall, 2018). This is due to the fact that it is examined that there is

some work in the manufacturing firm that comes under the category of
high risk. For example, manual lifting of heavy equipment or material can
result in musculoskeletal disorder. On the other hand, long working hours,
poor work-life balance, rising obesity rates, rising diabetes rates can be
stated as examples for poor wellbeing in workplace. These all things will
have a negative influence on the health of the employees who are
working in a manufacturing firm (Nogueira, van der Linde and Botha,
2018).
In addition, employer should ensure the health and wellbeing of
their employees because employees tend to spend majority of time in the
workplace. For example, in Singapore, employees spend about 12 hours
at workplace. Therefore, it is critical that employer know their
responsibility in making effort to provide every employee a safety and
healthy working environment (Chari and et.al., 2018). As such, if the
employer failed to notice the issue on employee’s health and wellness,
poor productivity will be expected and this will end up affecting the
company profit margin.
Balancing Safety, Health and Wellbeing
Here, for the manufacturing company, it is very important that it should
always make efforts in terms of putting a major focus on the safety of
employees instead of wellbeing. It is reported that the risk of accidents is
more in the manufacturing firms. Workplace injuries are common
nowadays and about 4,405 workers suffer from this in a long run
(Seabury, Mendeloff & Neuhauser,2014). For example, the disaster that
caused in December6, 2006 at the Falk Corporation where a gas leak
triggered a large explosion at the gear manufacturing firm leading to
several injuries and 3 people were killed. The different types of workplace
injuries include- repetitive motion injuries like continuous typing or using
computer, machine entanglement where body parts get affected due to
daily use of heavy machineries. Thus it is required that the employer
should maintain a balanced approach toward maintaining the safety,
health and wellbeing of employees equally. This integrated approach can