Occupation Health and Safety Management

Running Head: Occupation Health and Safety Management
Occupation Health and Safety Management

Occupation Health and Safety Management
Safety in the organizations is easy as the firm just needs to manage that no one gets
hurt at their workplace. Yet it is actually a lot harder to achieve and sustain the performance
of safety (Trucco, 2016).
Hudson Model
Hudson in the year 2001 claimed a safety culture maturity model which is formulated
on one of the models which was actually incepted by Westrum in the year 1993 for
developing the safety culture from the initial stages via idealistic end stage known as
Generative. There are also two added levels in it which are known as Reactive and Proactive
that were first proposed by reason in 1997. They were considered as the extensions of West
Rum’s real typology. This model was extended till 5 stages in the continuous sequence and
later replaced the bureaucratic label with calculative (Flightsafety, 2017).
There is the description of every stage of the evaluation of safety culture as claimed by
Hudson in 2003. They are as follows:
 Pathological: To be safe is the major issue that is initiated by workforces. The major
factors of this are the business and the wish of not being captured by the regulator.
 Reactive: The firms take the security of their people seriously but then there are only
actions after instances happen. Before that the firm do not consider taking safety very
seriously (Caa, 2018).
 Calculative: When safety is driven by the system of management, before that the
collection of data is done. On the first place, the safety is driven by the management
and forced than even considered by the workforce.
 Proactive: When the performance is improved, then still the unexpected things
happen. And when unexpected things happen in the improved performance, it
becomes a challenge. Then the workforce is involved and initiated to move the
complete initiative away using the top down approach.
 Generative: At last comes generative. Here the involvement is active irrespective of
the levels. Safety is considered to be the inbuilt component of any business.
Principles of OHS
There are several principles of Health and Safety. The ACT in 2004 varied for including
these principles. They are as follows:
 All the people without any discrimination are provided the highest level of safety and
health which are practicable as well (Ohsrep, 2018).
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Occupation Health and Safety Management
 For people who manage the actions which provides risks towards health and safety
are always accountable for eliminating or diminishing risks of health and safety.
 Employers are the people who are self-employed and they must always be proactive
and take reasonable measures for making sure of health and safety in the firm
activities.
 The employer and the employees, both must exchange the information or any sort of
knowledge that they have related to health and safety as this information can reduce
the risks of the same for the employees.
 All the employees should be motivated for representation on the problems on health
and safety.
Approaches
 Legislation and the Regulations: The OHSA also known as occupational health and
safety act and the regulations that it has, establishes the needs for occupational health
and safety in the firms in legal terms under provincial jurisdiction. Such type of
requirements gives clear and strong direction for workplace parties in terms of
occupational health and safety practices and procedures (Gov, 2013).
 Enforcement and Evaluation: For monitoring and enforcing the compliance linked
with the law, ministry inspectors visits the places every year at every place. Whereas
only ministry has this authority for enforcing the law, multiple other places and their
partners of safety are included in observing the programs and practices of safety.
 Education and Training: There are most of the organization that gives education and
training which involves the six designated Health and Safety Associations.
 Advisory Services: These services are for helping the parties at the workplace in
terms of legal needs and they go outside compliance for achieving excellence of
occupational health and safety (Ilo, 2011).
 Motivators: The motivators can actually move the workplaces even after obedience by
motivating occupational health and safety excellence. Such motivators can be
financial and non-financial both. They can be rewards and punishments both.
 Awareness: Awareness is one big thing when it comes to building the optimistic
occupational health and safety practices. If there is awareness, people themselves feel
the sincerity to act in efficient way to make sure the workers are healthy and safe.
PDCA Cycle
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