Report: Establishing a Healthy and Safe Workplace Environment

This report addresses the key aspects of a healthy workplace based on Burton's (2008) article. It defines a healthy workplace as a positive environment promoting employee well-being and organizational growth. The report emphasizes the business's responsibility for employee safety and health, highlighting the motivation behind establishing such environments, such as team building and employee retention. It discusses the consequences of neglecting workplace health, including employee illness, reduced retention, and decreased productivity. The report provides examples of establishing safe workplaces through documentation and building safety measures. It analyzes the return on investment (ROI) and cost-benefit analysis of implementing healthy workplace programs, along with the concept of social responsibility. The report examines the challenges posed by the threat of litigation and outlines the role of the HR department in establishing and maintaining a safe workplace, including safety regulations and monitoring programs. Finally, the report discusses methods for determining the effectiveness of workplace safety plans, such as training and occupational classifications.

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1. Definition of Healthy workplace
Healthy workplace refers to the positive workplace environment, where the employees show
willingness to work for the organisational growth. The concept of healthy workplace is
associated with the physical and social aspects of all the employees as well as authoritative
body of the organisation.
2. Business responsibility for healthy and safe workplace environment
The responsibility of the business organisation include promoting the right to have a healthy
and safe environment for all the employees of the organisation. On the other hand, the
responsibility of the organisation also include promoting the sense of equality among the
workplace environment (Gibb et al., 2016).
3. Motivation behind establishing healthy workplace
Team building is the best motivation for creating a healthy workplace environment. It is
important to exhibit the motivational factor as it is related to employee retention and
generating revenue for the organisation. Motivated employees are the major and important
stakeholders for the organisation (Leitão & Greiner, 2017).
4. Consequences of not creating healthy and safe workplace
Firstly, it can cause falling sick of the employees of the organisation. Secondly, it can affect
the employee retention for the organisation. Thirdly, it will damage the business related
productivity and it is the most important threat for the organisation .
5. Two examples of establishing safe workplace environment
Documentation of maintaining the safety and hygienic regulation within the organisation.
And secondly proofing the building is also another example of establishing safe and healthy
workplace environment.

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6. ROI and Cost benefit analysis as a healthy workplace practice
Cost benefit analysis is the important economic model that ensures total return of investment
(ROI). It is a healthy practice that assures greater amount of revenue generation and it also
can become successful to motivate the employees and promote healthy workplace
environment.
7. Social responsibility as a way of healthy workplace practice
Social responsibility is also known as responsibility for developing sustainability through
organisational practice. It is a practice of maintaining the ecological balance without
compromising the future generation (Bohle et al., 2017). This is a healthy workplace practice
initiated by the organisation for the sake of the environment.
8. Threat of litigation on establishing safe and healthy workplace environment
Litigation is a process of taking legal action for the sake of organisational benefit. It is a
threatening practice of initiating lawsuit against other business organisation. It can impose a
threat to the economic factor of the organisation.
9. Role of HR department for establishing healthy workplace environment
The human resource professionals need to mention the health and safety regulation of the
organisation at the time of hiring (Carr & Biggs, 2018). They can mention the consequences
of violating the rules during the process of hiring to avoid the negative consequences.
10. Two methods to determine the effectiveness of workplace safety
Training for ensuring healthy and safety practices within the organisation. The leaders need
to follow the occupational classification for effective promotion of workplace healthy and
safety practices. Along with this, the HR professionals need to monitor the entire programs
for ensuring efficiency.

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