Health and Safety Standards and Its Impact on Employee Turnover

This report investigates the impact of health and safety standards on employee turnover, focusing on a case study of BHP Billiton, a mining company in Victoria, Australia. The report begins with an executive summary, table of contents, and introduction that emphasizes the importance of health and safety procedures in maintaining a positive work environment and its effect on employee retention. It then provides an overview of BHP Billiton's health and safety practices, highlighting key safety measures and their utility. The report also examines employee turnover intentions, exploring factors like employee engagement, learning and development, and their correlation with turnover rates. The research aims to analyze the impact of health and safety procedures on turnover issues and the regulations within BHP Billiton. A literature review covers the evolution of safety culture and international standards, the role of facility managers, and the impact of safety on worker well-being and engagement. The research questions address the correlation between health and safety standards and turnover intentions, as well as the influence of safety cultures. The report concludes by summarizing the findings and referencing relevant sources. The report emphasizes the importance of health and safety standards in the workplace and their influence on employee turnover.

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Executive summary
This report discusses the health and safety standards and its impact on the employee turnover
ratio. The company BHP Billiton is based on Victoria, Australia and operates on mining
industry. Being a manufacturing company and operating with the labour force has made them
ensure to check their health and safety standards acutely. Further, there is also a literature review
on the topic and some recommendation regarding the utility of such standards.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
BHP health and safety.....................................................................................................................3
Importance safety procedures and its utility....................................................................................4
Turnover intention...........................................................................................................................4
Research aim....................................................................................................................................4
Research objective...........................................................................................................................5
Literature review..............................................................................................................................5
Research questions...........................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Managing health and safety of employers has become essential to maintain the work
environment. It also affects the rate of employee retention level. Industries that needs to more
focus on the company’s health and safety procedures are mining oriented industrial company,
heavy instrumental using and others. This text focuses on the impact of the safety procedures and
management of a company based in Victoria, namely BHP Billiton. The Australia based
company operates on the mining sector and have minerals like Copper, iron ore, potash, and in
petroleum based company (BHP Billiton | Health and safety, 2017). This mining needs some
heavy risks that are involved in the miner’s life (Muhoho, 2014).
BHP health and safety
The company has some good safety procedure that they ensure the company workers and
contractors abide by. The standards defined by the company are most common safety risks and
controls. Their operation assesses the objectives that need to be fulfilled without fatalities. They
always focus on the routine engagement and interaction to improve safety performance,
contractors safety committees, pre-start meetings, infield leaders discussing job specific safety
risks, safety toolbox talks("BHP Billiton | Health and safety", 2017).. Permit to work on confined
space entry, hot work, breaking systems containing hazardous materials are analysed and then
given. Tracking critical status and location system are also there.

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Importance safety procedures and its utility
Injuries that occur during work have long-term effect on employees/workers life. Due to
lack of knowledge, skills and motivations companies do not give priority to health and safety
measures as they deserves. In turn, these organisations have to bear financials and outcome of
employee’s attitudes. There is also a good business sense in having socially responsible
including optimum health and safety procedures (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014). The
communication of the preventive measures should plan, organised, controlled, monitored and
reviewed. This factor also affects the turnover behaviour of the company.
Turnover intention
The turnover of the employees of an organisation depends on the employee’s engagement
and individual commitment towards their organisation. The employees who experiences lower
engagement, Learning and development have higher intention to leave the organisation (Barling
Loughlin & Kelloway, 2012). The companies who focuses on employee satisfaction and have
excellent development, training and promotion programs enjoys more employees loyalty and
satisfaction rate, which directly or indirectly converts to low turnover rate. Here, the focuses on
the relationship between turnover intention and health and safety procedures of a mining
company BHP Billiton in Victoria. Company’s operation involves heavy mining equipments that
involve certain risks. The manufacturing industries employees shows positive attitude towards
their work and is satisfied with the standards. This leads to less turnover ratio.
Research aim
The aim of this research is to analyse the impact of health and safety procedure of the mining
based company namely, BHP Billiton on its employees turnover intention.

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Research objective
 To analyse the impact of health and safety procedures in the organisations turnover
issues.
 To analyse the health and safety regulations of the mining company of Victoria named
BHP Billiton. There are also recommendations based on the research.
 The turnover intension of an employee is influenced by lack of safety standards.
Therefore, this research is helpful in finding out the core area, which stimulates employee
to take such decision based on health impact.
Literature review
The word Safety and Culture first appeared in the late 1980s and then the revolutionary
Chernobyl disaster happened which changed the scenario of International agencies (West &
Dawson, 2012). The safety cultures are both structural and attitudinal. In consideration of trends
and safety intentions in workplace international conventions have been regulated by the
international organisation for standardisation (Abdulfatai & Obalalu, 2015). The desire to
provide a safe and healthy workplace covers the wide range of spectrum of issues while liability
of work environment and the hidden bottom line losses have long been an headache for
government personnel’s (Schaufeli & Taris, 2014). This also adds to the hidden bottom line
losses. The facility managers have an important role in the building a sustainable safety
standards and also establish health managements programs (George, 2015). Safety in workplace
is a complex issue, thus this complexity is rooted in employment laws and workers compensation
laws acts (Day, Kelloway & Hurrell, 2014). The engagement level of an individual in
organisation goals, and concern for valued work is said to be highly proportional to intention of a
work continuation in the organisation. The companies, which offers more development programs

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to their employees has been noted to get more employee loyalty (Wang, 2013). This can affect
the positive outcome on the behavioural aspects of an employee (De Vos & Dries, 2013). The
analysis of the Commitment-turnover has shown a strong correlation between the variable and
the variance is a less than the considerable amount. The relationship between the occupational
injuries and manufacturing labours is proportional (Van, Fruytier & Thunnissen, 2013). In
addition, the labours are more victimized by the workplace hazards and they are more prone to
physical repercussions on fatal injuries (Gayathiri 2013). Therefore, skill and motivation is
proportional correlated to employee turnover ratio. Small mistakes can have more disastrous
outcome, therefore, government should promote occupational health and safety vigorously to
reach the common goal of quick warning, prevention, and protection systems for all (Ismail,
Doostdar & Harun, 2012). The need to provide a reasonably safe and healthy work place
environment for internal employees has long been the responsibility of management and the
company as a whole (Aikens et al., 2014). Nevertheless, employee’s protection is a related to the
achievement of the organisational goals and objective (Liyanage & Galhena, 2012). World
Health Organisation has some gold rules that they communicate with every organisation and has
set some standards to make a public workplace safer. Mines regulation and electrical safety in
companies, which are more prone to workplace accidents, needs transparency in their work
regulations (Barling Loughlin & Kelloway, 2012). Possibility of safety alerts and preventing in
rushes in the underground mining needs checking, development and maintenance at the highest
priority. The fire and explosion in mines must be prevented at highest cost ("BHP Billiton |
Health and safety", 2017). Ventilation in the mines and blinds saving the labours are of utmost
importance. Accidents aversion not possible but a good compensation program for the deceased
in the accidents is beneficial (Idris et al., 2012). Ground controls and the roadways needs

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authentication before work commencements. Escape, rescue teams and routes also help in the
process (Montano, Hoven & Siegrist, 2014).
Research questions
 Is an employee turnover decision is positively correlated with the health and safety
standards of the company?
 Are safety cultures of the organisation affects the turnover intension?
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above discussions it can be said that the company is well aware of
the situation of international work safety procedures and have incorporated good management
programs to secure its work place hazards. BHP Billiton has a separate work and safety measures
management program already incorporated in the system and an excellent compensation program
incorporated in their organisation.
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