HRMT20024: Managing Workplace Health and Safety - Week 10 Presentation

This presentation analyzes an article focused on managing workplace health and safety, specifically addressing the issue of work-related stress. The objective of the research is to create a working environment that decreases stress by raising psychological safety, creating fixed break times, utilizing private workspaces, establishing boundaries, implementing flexible working procedures, and building employee engagement. The study employs secondary data collection through peer-reviewed articles and books to identify causes of workplace stress, such as long working hours and heavy workloads, leading to reduced employee performance and depression. The findings highlight the importance of clear goals, open communication, and employee engagement to mitigate stress. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the link between stress, productivity, and motivation and suggests strategies like training and brainstorming sessions to foster a healthy and productive work environment, ultimately contributing to the week's topic by offering practical approaches to manage and prevent workplace stress.

HRMT20024 Assessment 1
Week (10)
Week 10 Managing workplace health and safety
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Making Work Less Stressful and More Engaging for Your Employees
• Managing work stress as it is a health hazard
• Wellness program reduces healthcare spending and absenteeism
• Employees at stress situation due to uncertain expectancy, unreasonable
goals and hectic working environment
• Shifting of employees towards organizational level approaches to reduce
workplace stress
• Reduction of workplace stress as well as increase into employee engagement

Objective of the Article
• To create working environment for decreasing in stress
The sub-objectives of this main objective are:
 Raising psychological safety of employees working in business
 Creating a fixed break time for employees
 Usage of private places for working in workplace
 Fixing a strict boundaries
 Implementing a flexible working procedures
• Building in employee engagement
The sub-objectives of this main objective are:
 Become transparent
 Making sure that people are properly assigned to job role
 Providing a sign of autonomy
 Providing employee engagement
 Culture towards employee recognition
 Focusing on employee growth

Method used in the article
• Secondary data collection method through analysing the peer review articles
on the topic- manage health and safety
• Analysing the books- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological
Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
• Involving to gather information as well as data which are gathered by
someone for research purposes

Findings of the study
• Causes of stress in workplace are long time working
hours and heavy workload
• Lessening in performance of employees in workplace and
level of depression
• Human brain are focused for 90-120 minutes before they
are taking rest
• Solutions provided as giving employees with clear goals
and inviting people to speak into meetings
• Conducting brainstorming sessions
• Nearly 40% of employees are known about strategic goals
of business
• As per 2.5 million teams, managers are interacted with
direct reports on regular basis

Conclusion
• Stress is leading causes of behaviour of workplace
employees
• Due to outside disturbance in the workplace and
workload from manager, workplace stress caused
• Reflecting into lower productivity in performance
and lack of employee motivation
• Dealing with stress is part of life as trying to
balance personal as well as working life

Contribution to week’s topic
• Handling of workplace stress before it gets out of hand and becoming more
for the employees to handle it by self
• Conducting training as well as working program
• Performing brainstorming sessions in order to overcome workplace stress
• Learning to deal with workplace stress by enhancing individual in addition to
workplace performance
• Maintenance of a healthy working environment for the employees

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Perspective,, 80-101.
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