Occupational Health and Safety in Organizations

Running head: LEADERSHIP OF ORGANIZATION
LEADERSHIP OF ORGANIZATION
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1LEADERSHIP OF ORGANIZATION
Organizational stress is a common issue that every organizations employee faces
nowadays due to the increased competition in the market. The management is trying hard to
increase the productivity of the employee by giving them extra pressure (Quick et al. 2013).
Occupational health deals with health and safety aspects in the organizational workplace and
focuses on the prevention of the toxic hazards that are present in the organization. Occupational
health also includes the stress factor that employee deals in the workplace. This may happen due
to the untimely schedule, extra work pressure, tight deadlines etc. A good working environment
leads to optimum use of the labor forces and it increases the productivity of the organization and
gives them a competitive advantage (Alexander 2013).
The unit manager of the organization and the Division head met for reviewing the
services demand to prepare the funding submission for the upcoming financial year. Clients have
increased in numbers and there is a limited opportunity to increase the funding. Managers had to
come up with their case individually and then the management will work out and identify their
priorities. The meeting had been postponed twice and the deadline is coming so the managers
and the group have finally settled to discuss the funding of the next financial year. It is expected
that no one is leaving today in time and the task that will be completed with least breaks.
The session will be long and this may cause many health issues for the employee. For
example, Paula is suffering from diabetes and if she does not get some food in time then it may
affect her health. Lennie is wondering, if he could deliver is ideas before everyone so that he can
leave to collect his children from the childcare. These are some of the issue that the employee of
the organization deals with that will eventually affect the working condition of the organization.

2LEADERSHIP OF ORGANIZATION
Occupational health and safety
The aim of the organization should be the well-being of their employees. If the employee
of the organization faces issues then it will hamper their performance and will cause unnecessary
stress in the organization. Stress leads to deadline failure and this will affect the goodwill of the
company. The aim of the occupation health and safety should be:
 The maintenance and promotion of the mental, social and physical well being of the
employees in the organization (Faragher, Cass and Cooper 2013)
 The prevention of the adverse effects of health due to the working condition
 The protection of the workers who are affected due to the unhealthy working
environment (Hood, Hardy and Simpson 2016)
 Providing high technologies with proper safety standards to avoid any accident in the
organization
Causes of poor working condition:
 Stress: The workplaces nowadays is full of deadlines, demands etc. There are employees
who work through this pressure and there are people who are not able to handle the
pressure and succumb to this pressure (McTernan, Dollard and LaMontagne 2013).
 Heavy workloads: If there is increased workload in the organization, it degrades the
quality of the work and affects the health of the employees (Trivellas, Reklitis and Platis
2013).
 Inadequate resources: Time and material should be available adequately so that they can
perform their task easily without bandy stoppage. Inadequate resources will cause loss in
the working hours and this will lead to failed deadlines (Goetsch and Davis 2014).