WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY - Research

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WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
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WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
Executive Summary
The report is aimed towards identifying the essence of health and wellbeing programs in
organizations and the manner in which it contributes to the business in minimizing the rates of
absenteeism among the workforce. It has been observed that frequent absenteeism affects the
overall productivity of an organization. The major contributing factors towards the frequent
absenteeism among the workforce are identified as chronic diseases and mental instability
resulting to demoralization and frustration. In this relation, the research developed the need of
health and wellbeing programs in organizations and the manner in which the same would support
in improving the overall productivity of the businesses. The purpose of conducting the research
is to identify the impact of health and wellbeing programs on the frequency of absenteeism
among the employees.

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WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
Table of Contents
Introduction and theoretical context................................................................................................3
A stakeholder analysis.....................................................................................................................3
Research methodology.....................................................................................................................4
Data analysis....................................................................................................................................7
Conclusions....................................................................................................................................10
Recommendations and employee health and well-being plan.......................................................11
Recommendations......................................................................................................................11
Health and wellbeing plan.........................................................................................................12
Reflection.......................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

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WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
Introduction and theoretical context
Employee health and wellbeing is a factor that is mostly considered by the organizations
with the purpose of minimizing the rate of absenteeism among the workforce. According to a
study, it was found that the growing rate of absenteeism in an organization due to health and
welfare related concerns among the employees maximized the production costs by a significant
rate (Ganster and Rosen 2013). In this connection, Milligan-Saville et al. (2017) observed that
most organization stake the initiative of inducing efficient employee health and wellbeing
campaigns in a workplace for minimizing the adverse effects on quality of the propositions and
overall productivity.
Again, Lassiter (2019) stated that the induction of health and wellbeing activities in
organizations allows in motivating the employees towards the work. The HR best practices also
mentioned the need of the health and welfare activities in organizations for the employees with
the purpose of reducing absenteeism, lower morale among the employees and declination of
quality and productivity of the organizational processes. Therefore, in this connection, the
development of different health and wellbeing activities by the employers would allow the same
in empowering the workflow and minimizing absenteeism.
A stakeholder analysis
The major stakeholders that are directly affected through the healkth and wellbeing
program of the organizations are the CEO, Board Members, C Suite, Cross functional
department heads, employees. The CEO, Board Members and the other hierarchical heads in the
organization are more concerned about the profitability and productivity of the different
operations that are undertaken by the organizations. According to Schwatka et al. (2018), the