Safety and Risk Management in Organizations

Running head: SAFETY AND RISK MANGEMENT 1
Safety and Risk management
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SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT 2
Executive summary
The key issue considered in any organization is safety and risk management. Ensuring
safety within an organization will require continuous inspection of the workplace,
training/education of employees on safety and risk management, investigating incidents and
practicing safety as an organizational culture. Organizations can be faced with different types of
hazards depending on the type of business. Some of these hazards include; chemical hazard,
ergonomics, chemical hazard, safety hazard among others. These hazards have a negative impact
within and outside the organization. Therefore, organizations are required to come up
strategies/policies addressing the safety of employees and the surrounding community.
Therefore, to safeguard the life of employees and surrounding people, it is important for an
organization to identify risks before engaging in any internal or external activities. Identification
of risks will involve site inspection, reviewing organizational work practices and exploring any
legal exposure in regards to the organization. The article is about a construction company which
was fined a total of $ 1.1 million over the death of a truck driver. Michael Booth, 48, had been
electrocuted when his truck touched a low-slung power line. The company had been found guilty
of not maintaining safety standards in the work station.

SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT 3
Safety and risk management
Introduction
Safety culture is a collection of values and attitude in regards to the safety of a
workstation or environment shared by members/employees at all levels in the organization
(Hopkin, 2018). In this case, a safety culture in an organization is based on the extent to which
people and employees are aware of the risk and unknown hazards that are induced by
organizational activities both within and outside the organization (Aven, 2016). A safety culture
is characterized by commitment, awareness, information, justness, and adaptability. Therefore, to
safeguard the life of employees and surrounding people, it is important for the organization to
identify risks before engaging in any internal or external activities. Identification of risks will
involve site inspection, reviewing organizational work practices and exploring any legal
exposure in regards to the organization (Pidgeon, Turner, Blockley & Toft, 2018). The article is
about a construction company which was fined a total of $ 1.1 million over the death of a truck
driver. Michael Booth, 48, had been electrocuted when his truck touched a low-slung power line.
The company had been found guilty of not maintaining safety standards in the workstation. The
magistrate judge concluded that the construction had a poor corporate culture.
Description of the workplace
The workplace in the organization was carelessly handled. As an illustration, the
employees who were working had not indicated any warning on ongoing work to alert the
pedestrians and drivers. Their carelessness can be proven by the fact that there were working
without any warning signs or attach a flag to themselves to indicate that there is ongoing
construction. The construction company had a poor working corporate culture. In this case, the