Evaluation of Occupational Health Intervention in Woolworths NZ

Occupational Health
Strategic Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Evaluation of occupational health intervention......................................................................1
Factors considered while evaluating occupational health......................................................3
Limitation of report along with recommendations for successful implementation of
intervention.............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
An occupational health strategy maintains a safe and healthy workplace. By implementing a
comprehensive occupational health policy, employers will determine the health risks associated
with current products and processes, eliminate hazards where possible, and identify safer
alternatives. Woolworths NZ is the second largest grocery company in New Zealand, with
revenue of NZ$6.2 billion for the year to June 2018. Alongside Foodstuffs, Woolworths NZ
forms part of the New Zealand supermarket duopoly. This report contains the information in
three assessments such as evaluation on the basis of intervention of health and occupation.
Factors that are considered while evaluating the health of occupation and limitations of the health
and safety measures with the recommendations of implementing in a different manner
Silaparasetti, Rao & Khan, (2017)..
Evaluation of occupational health intervention
Occupational health refers a field of health which is mainly concerned with safety as well as
welfare of people at work in an organization. It is stated that companies are now focusing on
providing safe and healthy working environment to their people at work n order to make them
able to work with concentration and also for fostering a healthy working environment. So it can
be said that one of the main aim of occupational health is to make a safe working environment
and protect workers, their family members, customers and all those who get affected from
working environment.
There are some common law of duty which needs to be followed and considered by all
employees in order to make them safe and protect them against any injury and accidents at
workplace. Statue law is one of the main acts which consist of several specific duties imposed to
companies in order to regulate workplace safety and issues. Some occupational health and
safet6y issues include: heat stress, back injury, high noise, obesity, injury due to ineffective
working environment and unfixed railing, stairs, unclean floor and others. So it can be said that it
is important to make and implement effective intervention work occupational health and safety
and also evaluate them in order to their effectiveness and performance whether implemented
intervention plan is effective and people at workplace can be made feel safe and prevented
against injury or not. An effective intervention plan consists of all information’s that who will be
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responsible for managing health and safety6, for which t6ypes of injury and accidents who will
be liable, policies which required to be implemented and others Schelvis & et.al., (2016). In this
context it is found that it is not possible for directive to provide information on how to manage the
psychosocial work environment so, for this purpose national policies have been developed in some
countries like management standards in the UK, New Zealand etc. This strategy is being applied to
organizational-level occupational health interventions for improving employee health and well-being
by making them able to change the way work is managed and organized.
Some steps of successful implementation of intervention include: preparation screening of
psychosocial risks, action plan, implementation and evaluation of outcomes. One of the main work
which needs to be done by employees and mangers is to determine intervention process like who will
be liable for project, how all people will be informed in development of activities. In the context of
Woolworth New Zealand which is the second largest grocery company and now a subsidiary of
Australia’s Woolworth requires maintaining a healthy working environment in order to retain their
employees for the long run and engage them for taking competitive advantages.
Process measure by CDC model: There is a CDC framework which can help manager of
Woolworth in measuring performance and effectiveness of intervention plan of occupational health
and safety. As per this framework, manager can identify stakeholder engagement level, productivity
level, increment in performance level of employees. It is stated that working in an effective working
environment allow and encourage employees to focus on their work which leads to improved
performance and overall improved productivity as well. And by knowing and comparing
performance level of employees manager can identify and measure effectiveness of intervention. If
there is increment in performance then it simply means that intervention plan is effective and if their
is poor performance of employees which means employees are not feeling safe and facing problems
in concentrating in functions Intervention Activities Evaluation in Occupational Health and
Safety. (2016). According to the performance, productivity level and engagement level of
stakeholders, company can make changes in implementation plan by improving some policies which
can allow them to make effective working environment.
Occupational health and safety management system is one of the effective tool which is being
used in New Zealand for ensuring safety and knowing effectiveness of performance of intervention.
In this context it is also stated that Woolworth New Zealand mainly focuses on leadership for
evaluating effectiveness the extent to which tools are performing in a way to minimize accidents
Steel, Godderis & Luyten, (2018).
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