Queensland Health & Hospital: Workplace Health and Safety Procedures

This report outlines workplace procedures concerning worker health and safety at Queensland Health and Hospital Service, focusing on Children’s Health. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring the health and safety of workers to improve workplace efficiency. The report acknowledges the various hazardous risks present in hospitals, including the transmission of infectious diseases, potential for injuries, risk of assault, and the psychological effects of workplace stress. It also highlights the significance of welfare schemes and modifiable work hours to benefit employees. References to relevant sources like Children’s Health Queensland and Safe Work Australia support the analysis and recommendations made in the report.

Running head: WORKPLACE PROCEDURES: WORKER HEALTH AND
SAFETY
WORKPLACE PROCEDURES: WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY
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Subject: Workplace procedures concerning the health and safety of
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Message: Ensuring the health and safety of workers, forms the
cornerstone of ensuring workplace efficiency (Loeppke et al.
2015). Children are a sensitive group requiring specialised
care, which is provided extensively by the Queensland
Health and Hospital Service: a collaborative network, as well
a hospital at the state platform, with the provision of quality
paediatric medical care coverage from the Northern Region
of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia
(Children’s Health Queensland, 2018).
The provision of services catered to the health and
welfare of employees, aiming to reduce occupational stress
and fatigue, form the crux of quality healthcare with
enhanced business profits, and primarily, customer
satisfaction as a result of quality health care (Kahn 2018).
Employment opportunities are abundant under this health
care service, followed by the provision of welfare schemes
and modifiable work hours, suited for employee benefits
(Children’s Health Queensland, 2018). However, hospitals
are subject to a variety of hazardous risks, for the patients as
well as the concerned staff. These include: risk of
transmission of infectious diseases, probability of injuries,
possibilities of being assaulted and negative implications of
organic waste handled by the staff. In addition, other risks
include the psychological effects due to workplace stress, as
well as attitudes from patients requiring special care
(Ruotsalainen et al. 2015). With respect to the same, the

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References
Children’s Health Queensland. (2018). Our Hospital and Health Service | Children’s Health
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Kahn, K., 2018. WORK & WEALTH.
Loeppke, R.R., Hohn, T., Baase, C., Bunn, W.B., Burton, W.N., Eisenberg, B.S., Ennis, T.,
Fabius, R., Hawkins, R.J., Hudson, T.W. and Hymel, P.A., 2015. Integrating health and
safety in the workplace: how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield
measurable benefits. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 57(5), pp.585-
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Ruotsalainen, J.H., Verbeek, J.H., Mariné, A. and Serra, C., 2015. Preventing occupational
stress in healthcare workers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 4.
Safe Work Australia. (2018). Home. [online] Available at:
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/ [Accessed 10 Sep. 2018].