Occupational Health Management in SMEs

Running Head: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
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Healthcare
Occupational health management
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4/10/2019

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Contents
Occupational health management..............................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Emerging Occupational Health Issues in SMEs........................................................................2
Work-related stress (WRS) in SMEs.....................................................................................3
Occupational diseases (OD) in SMEs....................................................................................4
Legislative requirements related to the occupational health hazards.....................................5
Standard Australian Industry practices for eliminating or minimisation health hazards.......6
Recommendations for future success of Australian OHS interventions................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7

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Occupational health management
Introduction
This research paper is based on emerging Occupational Health Issues within small
and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this context, occupational health hazards as well as the
ill-health issues at workplace never receive the required attention. In this way, a
comprehensive focus upon occupational health management is required. Besides, this
discussion is going to address this shortcoming within organisational practice. In addition, the
contemporary workplaces are facing range of emerging issues within the management of
modern occupational health (NOHSAC, 2018). Thus, SMEs have been selected as the chosen
industry and hence one emerging occupational health issue which will be researched within
this essay is work-related stress and diseases (Ogunyomi & Brunning, 2016). Thus, this paper
is going to undertake a critical literature review, focusing on an industry as SMEs. Hence,
emerging occupational diseases as well as stress will be covered in the context of SME
industry within this paper.
Emerging Occupational Health Issues in SMEs
As we know that huge cultural change within the successful management of
occupation health at workplace during recent years has caused so many emerging challenges
for the SMEs. There is numerous health risks associated along with those safety risks for the
employees working at SMEs. However, nature of the health hazards depend upon the core
nature of the industry the employees are working with. For an example, chemical risks within
SMEs are very common (Archer, 2018). Apart from this, exposure to noise can cause hearing
impairment. In addition, exposure to ultraviolet radiations within the workplace or working
on-site in sun-rays exposure can further lead to skin and other types of cancer. In this way,
occupation health is majorly affected by occupational diseases as well as work-related stress
(Monat-Descamps & Deschamps, 2012).