Occupational Health And Safety docx.

Running head: Occupational health and safety
Occupational health and safety
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Occupational health and safety1
Introduction
The main aim of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act is to protect the
workers from the health and the safety hazards by setting out a minimum standard for the
healthy and the safety practices in the workplaces around Alberta (Alberta government,
2010). These laws have been enforced by the help of infection, investigations, administrative
penalties, orders, prosecutions and fines. The part four of the document that is dangerous
work and discriminatory action contains sections about workplace bullying.
Bullying at work can be referred to as offending, harassing, socially excluding some
body or negatively affecting the work of some body. In this process an individual might
remain indulged in the both indirect and a subtle form of psychological violence Workplace
bullying can be considered as one of the most stressful phenomena that can take place in an
organisation. Mistreated workers have led to greater number of absent from work, poor self
esteem and evaluation of the health status. Bullied workers have reported that they have
lower level of job satisfaction, job induced stress and higher anxiety and the depression
scores. Workplace bullying increases the cost of an organisation, due to the increased number
of absenteeism and employee turnover.
It is the duty of an occupational health and safety officer, ti coordinate the health and
safety by identifying the hazards, assess risk to the health and safety. They are accountable to
put everything to appropriate safety control in place. An occupational health and safety
officers advises the managers and the workers in an effort to mitigate the hazards of the
workplace by removal, substitution, replacement and prevention.