MGT313 Assignment 1: Occupational Health Strategic Management Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of occupational health strategic management, focusing on Auckland City Hospital. The introduction establishes the importance of strategic planning in identifying workplace hazards and improving worker participation. The main body delves into the hospital's background, internal environment, and the impact of occupational diseases, including the rise in stress and anxiety among staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A SWOT analysis is conducted to evaluate the hospital's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report examines the incidence and associated costs of occupational diseases, break-even analysis for intervention plans, and the costs of implementing these plans. Recommendations are made to improve the hospital's decision-making processes regarding occupational health, particularly in light of the pandemic's impact. The report highlights the need for intervention plans to reduce workload, enforce working hour limits, and provide PPE kits to prevent the spread of diseases. This report aims to provide strategic insights to improve employee safety and health within the organization.

Occupational Health
Strategic Management

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Background of the company...................................................................................................3
Internal Environment..............................................................................................................4
The incidence..........................................................................................................................5
Associated costs of occupational disease...............................................................................6
Break-even analysis................................................................................................................7
Costs of implementing the intervention plan..........................................................................7
Recommendations on the available data from organisation...................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
An occupational health strategic plan is considered to be an effective approach which helps
an organisation in identifying hazardous elements that stays present at a workplace. It
specifically uses different range of approaches from Hierarchy of Controls to protect workers.
This mechanism aid an organisation to improve worker participation in decision-making process
as it is said to be a vital subsection to improve productivity and profitability (Ramos, Afonso and
Rodrigues, 2020). In present professional report, the organisation that has been taken into
consideration is Auckland City Hospital. The main reason behind considering this large health
care organisation is that, these type of medical institutes specifically deals with most of the
occupational diseases.
Including this, report will be delivering information in relation to the internal environment
of Auckland City hospital coma incidence associated cost of occupational diseases break even
analysis and lastly it will be presenting the cost of implementing the intervention plan that has
been developed. Also there will be recommendations that are going to be made, which will help
in improving decision making process of the hospital in relation with occupational diseases
which are regularly on non-regularly faced by staff of Auckland City Hospital.
Main Body
Background of the company
Auckland City Hospital was specifically found in the year of 1847 and become one of the
largest hospitals in all over the world. It is a freely financed medical hospital, run by the
Auckland District Health Board since 2001. Situated in the suburb of Grafton, east of the CBD, it
has around 3,500 rooms and gives a sum of approximately 1124 beds for the patients. This
hospital has been dealing with ample number of occupational diseases that has not only impacted
upon performance level of staff but it has also decline in the productivity as well while serving to
the citizens of New Zealand (Fan and et. al., 2020)
Recently, SARS-COV-2 a deadly virus, that has affected mostly all the sectors and became
the reason of locking down the whole world because the virus can spread easily as it is
considering the mutant nature and can be spread easily as it is airborne. Due to outbreak of
Corona Virus, staff members of Auckland City Hospital has started feeling of getting affected by
coronavirus while serving to the patients who are already dealing with it. This has not only

enhanced the pressure level of working continuously but also raised risk to their life. Also, it has
raised different concerns like rise in anxiety, depression and so on.
Internal Environment
This is considered to be the environment, which focuses on all the internal factors and
organisational functions of an organisation. In context of Auckland City Hospital, company has
kept its focus on improvising different policies and procedures to keep the staff members safe
and secured from different distress like occupational diseases and so on. However, due to rapid
increase in COVID-19 cases, stress level and anxiety are said to be the two crucial occupational
diseases that specifically increased within staff members because they were treating the
contagious virus. This raised ample number of concerns for staff members who have been
delivering services and working hard non-stop to save patients from deadly diseases like
Coronavirus and so on. In order to better examine the internal environment, SWOT analysis has
been conducted which will be e delivering detailed information about strengths, weaknesses,
threats and opportunities of Auckland City Hospital.
SWOT Analysis:
Strengths: By cooperating, Auckland City Hospital specifically connects with patients
connections and add an understanding of how individuals wish to be upheld. This implies
working with individuals, not getting things done to them or for them. Basically, Auckland City
Hospital has already developed an effective working environment which may help them in
serving the best and suitable services to individuals dealing with different health problems like
COVID-19 and so on. On the other hand, Auckland City Hospital already carrying upskilled
workforce to work in more tolerant driven ways. This hospital focuses coordinated
administrations so well that it feels like one merged wellbeing framework Health Auckland.
Individuals anticipate to have the option to discover their way around effectively and for
administrations to be arranged around their requirements.
Weaknesses: Auckland City Hospital did not intervene properly the different
occupational diseases, which impacted negatively on overall performance level of the health
organisation. Including this, it has been analysed that it is must for Auckland City Hospital to
improve the existing interventions in relation with occupational diseases. This has raised ample
number of concerns for nurses, healthcare providers and other staff members to deal with various
occupational diseases. Recently, a few individuals belonging to staff of Auckland City Hospital

got affected with COVID-19 and the reason that came in front was less effective intervene based
approach was followed by the organisation.
Opportunities: In order to improve the overall health conditions of the workplace,
Auckland City Hospital can effectively take into consideration of different interventions that will
be helping healthcare organisation to reduce the impact of occupational disease and help
individuals that are continuously serving to the patients within Auckland City Hospital to feel
much more secured and safe while serving to patients dealing with various diseases (Berhan,
2020).
Threats: Major threat can be anything like rise in competition, and so on but in context
with occupational disease, Auckland City hospital consist of various issues where one of the
major threat that came in front was the outbreak of diseases like coronavirus, which majorly
impacted negatively on existing policies and procedures followed by healthcare organisation to
keep up the staff members safe and secured from different range of difficulties like rise in stress,
anxiety and depression level and so on.
While focusing on the above mentioned information and after analysing the overall situation of
Auckland City Hospital it can easily be said that disorganization requires to improve the overall
proficiency level through to developing an effective intervention plan to reduce the different
range of occupational diseases that usually takes place in common and because of the different
reasons like outbreak of coronavirus.
The incidence
The New Zealand health strategy has been effective in nature because approximately hundred
and two days this country has kept itself safe from coronavirus because 0 patients with the same
conditions were found. However, if it is talked about Auckland City Hospital then this
organisation has been dealing with ample number of problems as rise among occupational
diseases at workplace can easily be seen which has raised concerns for staff members and
affected their overall proficiency level as well. The National Occupational Health and Safety
Advisory Committee (NOHSAC) is liable for giving free counsel to the Minister of Labour on
work related wellbeing and security issues in New Zealand. NOHSAC assumes a key job in
giving an autonomous appraisal to the Minister on the major word related wellbeing and
wellbeing issues for the New Zealand workforce, of exhorting on the measures that would
convey the best advantage for the avoidance of word related injury and sickness, and in building

up a proof based way to deal with word related wellbeing and security issues. In present context,
it can be said that due to outbreak of coronavirus the overall policies that has been developed in
relation to wellbeing issues of staff has been affected negatively which increase the concern of
staff members of Auckland City Hospital to go through ample number of problems like getting
infected by the COVID-19 or increase in the overall stress level while serving to patients dealing
with contagious and severe diseases. This will thusly give the proof base to choices by NOHSAC
and the Minister in regards to future exercises and needs.
Associated costs of occupational disease
There is various associated cost of different occupational diseases which has to be bear by the
Auckland city hospital. All these costs are associated with PPE kits, medical equipment for
preventing the diseases, sanitizer, sanitizing equipment and various other items which are used
by the organisation to prevent different occupational diseases. In relation to Auckland city
hospital, it is one of busiest hospital within New Zealand where there is large chances of getting
occupational diseases to the staff who is working within this organisation. Auckland city hospital
is a largest hospital with New Zealand which includes approximately 1,500 medical staff. In
relation to PPK get the overall cost of single kit for individual is 25 New Zealand dollars. The
overall cost to the organisation for purchasing the PPE kits it’s around $37,500. Hospital also
need different kind of sanitizing equipment as well as sanitizer to sanitize the whole hospital in
every minute so that it can maintain a sanitized environment where a hygiene can be established
to prevent the disease like covid-19 and various other diseases which has high doubling rate.
Overall cost of these equipment and sanitizer in relation to hospital is around 50000 new Zealand
dollar. For preventing the employees from anxiety stress and pain related to overload work
because of large number of facilities available within the hospital as well as greater use of this
facility by common people of New Zealand organisation has to arrange different kind of facilities
which helped the staff to reduce the stress and anxiety and pain from overload work. For
producing this hospital has to organise yoga classes for each and every staff within the form
which also required $300 expenditure on each individual.
Break-even analysis
Break even analysis is a concept and a phenomena is used for identifying a common functional
areas for the organisation to determine and gain knowledge about the profitability and efficiency
of the measures taken as well as of its effectiveness. Break even analysis enables the Auckland

City hospital identify the profitable outcomes going to be received once the intervention plan are
implemented and potentially executed. In order to develop an intervention plan, Auckland City
Hospital required to estimate the overall cost which can be done considering break even analysis.
This could be well understood with the good example of launching a whole new policy in
relation with occupational disease that mostly brings stress in overall work base life in staff
members of this healthcare organisation. While focusing on the overall investigation of the
overall market, it can easily be said that Auckland City Hospital may effectively pay $37,500 for
it, and the team is certain that they will be providing PPE Kit and other essential training and
techniques at any rate 500 units for each month. The hardware Auckland City Hospital would
will be using to create the item costs $37,500 and this will be spread more than three years,
giving Auckland City Hospital a fixed expense of $35,000 every month. Auckland City Hospital
would have to choose if the intervention plan is monetarily feasible.
Costs of implementing the intervention plan
It is important for hospital to formulate a intervention plan within the organisation so that it can
keep the employees save from different occupational diseases as well as fast communicating
diseases which can impact on the life of individual as well as working of the hospital. For
achieving the objective related to management of occupational disease within hospital it is using
intervention plan which is discussed below:
 Under this intervention plan organisation is planning to reduce the workload of
individuals by fixing their working hours. It is mandatory for each and every staff within
the hospital that they can only work for 6 to 8 hours. There are also two rules and
regulations which have to be followed by the staff to prevent them from covid-19. Every
staff member within the hospital has to wear proper PPE kit, to use sanitization (Stimec,
2020).
 In relation to Auckland city hospital, it has to expand a proper cost on different functions
of this intervention plan. For implementing the intervention plan on the organisation the
costs associated with this is related to the cost of PP kit which is around $25 for a single
PPE kit. The overall cost of sanitization to the organisation is $50,000 per 2 months' staff.
Total expenditure and the cost implemented on the implementation of intervention plan is
120000 dollar per every 2 months. Company also spend a large number of amounts on
purchasing of medical equipment and maintaining this medical equipment within the

organisation so that it can easily implement the policy related to intervention where it is
mandatory to maintain proper structure so that all these policies can be followed by the
staff of hospital.
Recommendations on the available data from organisation
In the report an in depth evaluation and discussion is conducted on occupational diseases
which are faced by employees at workplace while taking care of patience Indore hospital. It is
remind that in Auckland City hospital there are several cases of occupational diseases in
healthcare workers who are taking the responsibility of caring about others and their well-being
while they are in the hospital. As known the world is facing and suffering from a pandemic
known as COVID-19. People are suffering due to the disease but other Health Care workers such
as doctors, nurses and other staff working in the hospital are suffering too.
The doctors and nurses are working for the patients in continuous shifts without any
breaks and not leaving the hospital for the sake of people. At the same time diseases are getting
onto them due to severe pressure and few other reasons. The Auckland City hospital needs to
take various steps in order to protect their workers because if the Health Care service providers
are not safe then the general public cannot be taken care of there is no one to do so
Some of the suggestions or recommendations for the organisation that is Auckland City
hospital in order to reduce the number of workers suffering from occupational diseases are as
follows:
 First and foremost step that is essential for the hospital administration and need to take is
to make sure that the hospital has all the required safety kits and instruments for the
nurses and doctors who are being in regular touch with the patients suffering from covid-
19. Importance tools and instruments are PPE kits, sanitizers, soaps etc. Administration
Department have to make sure that there is no shortage of such instruments in the
hospital and all the required safety tools are provided to workers for sake of the health of
patients who are admitted to the hospital and also for the workers and their families who
are risking their lives for others (Hossain, Khan and Yahya, S2020)
 Next recommendation to the Auckland City hospital in relation to reduce the number of
patience suffering due to occupational diseases is to increase awareness amongst staff and
other inline members such as cleaners, housekeeping team etc. People need to be
informed even those who are working in healthcare premises needs to be regularly

updated. It is mandatory that frequent awareness programs and workshops are being
conducted for keeping people informed about the severity of the situation and about all
the strict measures that are necessary for them to take while working in their work
setting.
The third in the last recommendation for dealing with the increasing number of occupational
diseases on a temporary basis is to hire more staff and health care professionals for filling the
gaps. In last few months healthcare workers have been contributing a lot to the society by
endlessly working for taking care of the patients suffering from the covid-19 disease. The
hospital needs to hire more staff so that everyone can get enough rest from their duties and visit
their families to regain their Strengths, energy and emotional balance (Dahler-Larsen, Sundby
andBoodhoo, 2020).
Conclusion
The report developed above and the discussion conducted concludes the focus to be driven to
occupational diseases from which employees in the healthcare sector are suffering while
rendering their services to the society and to their respective organisations. In the current
situation of a pandemic through which the whole world is suffering the most important
contribution is made by Health Care workers and it is important to be focused about their health
as well. The fore in the report a deep discussion is conducted for identifying the cost associated
for making arrangements to keep employees safe from any occupational disease a break-even
analysis is conducted as well. At last few recommendations such as stocking up the organisation
with sanitization and other important instruments is provided for dealing with the situation on
temporary basis and implementing this suggested measures in the long term if effective.

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