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Work Health and Safety
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Introduction
Safety in the workforce is a blended environment for occupational safety, health and
wellbeing. This outlines the policy and procedures in effect to guarantee workers ' health and
safety in the workforce. Workplace safety requires worker recognition relating to basic safety
skills, occupational dangers, danger-related threats, threat avoidance management, and the
introduction of appropriate healthier workplace approaches, procedures, systems, and safety
culture (Beus, McCord & Zohar, 2016). It also requires safety laws and legislation based largely
on the context of existing regulations of state. Every corporation provides the employees with a
variety of health standards and regulations. Staff safety courses and learning are provided on a
daily basis in order to keep them aware of and educate them with the latest security initiatives
(Miller, 2017). Here the setting which is chosen is a healthcare system where there can be many
work health and safety issues.
The objective of this paper is to identify the key agencies and stakeholders related to the
work health and safety, and also help in identification of the risk and hazards, assessment of the
risk and regulation of the risk. This paper will also help in understanding of the documentation
procedure.

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Agency and stakeholders for work Health and Safety
Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) monitoring is a joint initiative between national,
state, and local departments and partners through unions, workplace groups, professional
organizations, and other agencies. The government departments that perform the main functions
of OSH regulation are the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), and the Administration of Labor's Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). However, there are a variety of other government agencies
with OSH prevention and safety obligations and initiatives. In collaboration with federal
agencies, state agencies also have a vital and complementary position. State agencies gather,
interpret, and propagate information from alternative sources to direct disciplinary intervention at
the state, provincial, and local levels; deliver aggregated data to federal agencies for national
surveillance, and fill gaps in national surveillance data (White et al., 2015). Workers and
employers have a significant role to play in providing accurate and complete details and using
this knowledge to improve workplace safety and health at work. Therefore, healthcare facilities
and organisations, pension programs for employees and insurance companies provide
information relating to workplace safety and health (White et al., 2015).

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