Total Workplace Safety and Health

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Total Workplace
Health, Safety
and Wellbeing
AN INTERCONNECTED APPROACH

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Total Workplace Safety, Health and Wellbeing
Total workplace health and safety is a part of the organisational business culture. As an
ethical organisation focuses on ensuring the safety and wellbeing of its workforce so that they
can effectively work towards the organisational goals. The traditional approach of the
workplace health and safety was focused on ensuring that the workplace is safe for the
employees and the employees working within the organisation are protected from the harms
that may arise while working within the organisation (Carayon, et al., 2015). Total workplace
health and safety (TWSH) approach is focused on maintaining the physical safety and
wellbeing of the employees along with focusing on the health issues that may arise due to the
job employee is performing within the organisation.
As maintaining the health and safety within the organisation also contributes towards
employee satisfaction and develops the organisation’s goodwill within the industry.
Singapore is a nation that is dependent upon its manpower, therefore, it is required to
maintain the health and safety of the workforce within the nation to sustain and improve the
nation’s economic status as being the knowledge-based economy (WSH Council, 2014). The
report focuses on analysing the health and safety measures adopted at the workplace and the
implementation of TWSH effectively so that the organisational effectiveness can be ensured.
Traditionally the concept of employee health and safety was limited up to maintaining the
safety of the workplace and ensuring that the government rules and regulations are being
followed within the workplace that guides the safety and health of employees (Jonathan &
Mbogo, 2016). But with the increasing health issues and chronic illness within the workforce
of the organisations in Singapore, it is important to adopt modern Total Safety and Health
concepts within the organisations so that the employee wellbeing can be ensured (Daruwalla,
et al., 2018). TWSH focuses on shifting the employer mindset of providing the employees

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with a safe and healthy workplace towards ensuring that the employees are working safely
and their health and safety needs are being fulfilled while working within the organisation.
Total workplace safety, health and wellbeing, also focuses on providing the employees with
Quality Work Life. Providing the employees with quality work-life promotes and enhances
the physical and mental wellbeing of the employees working within the organisation, also
contributes towards organisational performance by promoting the employee innovativeness
and effectiveness (Jilcha & Kitaw, 2017). Therefore, the workplace health, safety and
wellbeing are interconnected with each other and is required that the organisation focuses on
ensuring the workplace safety and the wellbeing of the employees.
Total Health and safety also contribute towards maintaining the work-life stress along with
ensuring the physical wellbeing of the employees. As employee effectiveness can be
improved if the individual is free from the mental stress arising due to work-life balance.
Therefore, the organisations are required to interconnect the employee's wellbeing with the
workforce health and safety to mitigate the effects of the work-life stress on employee
performance (Hammer & Sauter, 2013). Employers play an important part in ensuring the
workplace health and safety, as several factors influences the wellbeing of the employees
including the geographical locations, business sizes and industry nature; therefore, the
employers are required to maintain the factors and provide the employees with healthy and
safe work environment (Pescud & Teal, 2015).
World Health Organisation (WHO) defines a safe workplace as a workplace that ensures that
the employees working within are in a state of complete mental, physical and social
wellbeing, not a workplace that is just focused on eliminating the factors that led to physical
harms to the employees while working within the organisation. In a Safe and Healthy
Workplace, the employees and the managers collaborate and continuously focus on

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promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of employees (EL- Matury & Lestari,
2016).
The organisational work environment is required to be effectively managed and maintained to
provide the employees with a safe and healthy work environment. To improve the safety and
health of the employees within the organisation it is required that the issues related to the
health, safety and employee wellbeing are managed in a comprehensive and interconnected
manner. This interconnected approach provides the organisation with a plan that is focused
on continuous improvement within the organisation along with improving the workplace
health and safety. As focusing on the improved health and safety measures of the employees
result in improving productivity, performance, employee retention, organisational
performance as well as the culture within the organisation (Ali, 2014).
The process of Implementing Total workplace health and Safety within the organisation is the
responsibility of the Top Management, as the top-level management of the organisation
focuses on implementing the policies and sets up rules and regulations that promote the
health and safety of the employees within the organisation. The management of the
organisation plays an important role in allocating the required resources within the
organisation and ensuring the effectiveness of the activities within the organisation. Also, the
active engagement of the management within the workplace safety motivates the employees
to work effectively within the organisation and to achieve the organisational goals and
objectives (OSHA, 2012).
The implementation of the Workplace Health and Safety can be done by setting up a
responsible team that looks towards workplace health and safety. The main focus of the team
should be to ensure that the employees within the workplace are being provided with a safe
and healthy work environment and their wellbeing is kept as a key centre before developing
any policies within the organisation. The team established by the management should focus