PAC Resources: A Strategic Analysis of Safety, Health, and Security

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of PAC Resources, focusing on its safety, health, and security practices. It begins with a SWOT analysis, examining the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report then delves into the role of Human Resources (HR) in strategic management, highlighting the importance of training, development, and employee well-being. Part 2 of the report explores human resource development, health, safety, and security measures, and staffing challenges. The analysis covers employee unrest, unfair practices, and legal issues, as well as the impact of management decisions on employee morale and productivity. The report emphasizes the significance of safety and security training, job hazard analysis, and flexible working hours in creating a positive work environment and improving overall company performance. The report concludes with a discussion of staffing issues and the need for fair and unbiased recruitment and promotion practices. The case study highlights the importance of proactive HR strategies in addressing workplace challenges and promoting a safe, healthy, and secure environment for employees.

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Table of Contents
Part 1..........................................................................................................................................2
SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................................2
Strength..............................................................................................................................2
Weakness............................................................................................................................2
Opportunities......................................................................................................................3
Threat.................................................................................................................................3
HR Role in Strategic Management........................................................................................4
Part 2..........................................................................................................................................4
Human Resource Development..............................................................................................5
Health, Safety and Security....................................................................................................5
Staffing...................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Part 1
SWOT Analysis
Strength
 Delivering High Quality Products: The Company is delivering high quality
products that helps them in maintain its position in the market. The products
are ISO Certified.
 Training Programs and Employee’s Development: The Company has been
organising many training programs and seminars on different topics to make
the employees more informed and skilled. (Perkins 2015)
 Active Wellness Programs: The Company is providing the hiredhands with
unconfined immunisations and health risk appraisal. They are reimbursing
employees with weight loss and smoking stoppage programs with fifty percent
of the total cost.This helps organization in maintaining an employee assistance
program.
 Niche Marketing: They are providing the customers with niche marketing.
The niche marketing is making them sustain in the market during the
downturn.
Weakness
 Not Efficient Management: The Company has no effective management that
causes the employees to have an unrest. They are not consistent in
implementing the policies and have a lack of communication with the
employees. (Anon 2017)

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 Employee Unrest:There is a great deal of employee unrest, due to the fact
that the company is not willing to listen to the employees and have their
problems or queries looked into.
 Unfair Practices: The Company used unfair practices in the job changes and
discouraged the process of innovation and creativity. The HR plays
favouritism and has an unfair attitude towards the employees.
Opportunities
 Increasing the Customer Base: They can expand into different market areas
and have many more customers that can help them in selling more.
 Technological Advancements:The continuous development of the
technology can be used by the company to make better products and to serve
the consumers better.
 Implementing Training:To improve the quality of the performance of the
company, they can train and motivate their entire workforce.
Threat
 Small Customer Base: The Company has a customer base that small and is
only in the USA and Asia. They rely heavily on one customer that can make
them lose their sales.
 Union Organisers: The employee unrest is causing the formation of Unions
that can disrupt the working of the organization(Van den Brink, Fruytier and
Thunnissen 2013).
 Legal Issues: There many legal issues that are being faced by them, for
example the case of the employee who was fired in front of the whole floor, or
the employee who complained about sexual harassment.

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HR Role in Strategic Management
The main role of the HR is to strengthen the relation that is there between the
employee and the employer. The HR of the company has to make sure that they have proper
training and development programs in place to have less mishaps occur in the working
environment of the company. These training and development programs help the employees
in understanding the work place culture and also aids them in performing the task in a more
efficient manner.
The HR has come up with different training programs to help with the loss of the
sales. The main aim of the training is to support the development of the employees and make
sure that they are aware about the safety and technology procedures. The hiring of Ben
Trudeau as the HR director has been fruitful for the company in solving the problems that
were arising before. Trudeau implemented many strategies that helped the company in having
safety at the work place while also increasing the sales of the company. He made sure that the
employees felt secure and safe while talking to him, even when if it was about their bosses.
Part 2
PAC is helped by the HRM to identify whether there is any deterioration in the
business or not and it helps boost the business as well. The company hired Ben Trudeau as
the HR Director in place of Patricia Harris. The new policies that were implemented by the
company were across all departments and thus they were able to improve the business little
by little. The old HR director was not liked by the people as she played favouritism and was
not stable with the benefits program (Tyson 2014). The replacement was liked by the people
and the HR department came up with different policies that were implemented throughout the
company for betterment of the company.

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Human Resource Development
HRD department is governed by Kellie Stephens, she also is the supervisor of two
other people there, an administrative subordinate and a mentor.Organization has always been
a robustpatron of the growth of employees. They encourage their employees to show up for
the training seminars and also reimburse the graduation studieswhich are akin to jobs of the
hired hands. They also conduct seminars to ensure that all hired handsare updated with the
offensive sexual advance and precaution related to that (Ashleigh, Higgs and Dulewicz
2012). There are also other trainings available to the employees as and when the need arises.
There has been labour problem since a few years and the manager has made
aggressive training activities to make the first line supervisors skilled to manage the staff
effectively (Garavan et.al 2012). However, the efforts of the training are not well received as
the employees think that the HR gets in the middle of the training and the everyday jobs.
The HRM department has also come up with policies that are helpful in interaction
with the employees that will help them in solving the problems in a much easier manner. The
manager encourages the ‘Snack and Chat’ meeting on Friday afternoons where the hired
hands can come by the office and discuss with the manager about work and any difficulties
that they are facing in the organisation. To increase the information with the offsite
employees the company has come up with the idea blog on the intranet that can help the
employees to share their knowledge and ideas about the working sphere and culture.
Health, Safety and Security
The safety and security of a company is important is it helps in reducing the accidents
that happen in the company. The lack of security reduces the chance of employees
performing adequately and efficiently (Laszka, et.al 2017). The companies have many
training programs that make the employees aware about the safety and security precautions

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that the employees must take in order to have a safe and secure environment for them to
work. The job hazard analysis is one of the most favourable action as it identifies the work
related hazards that can be solved and can aid the company in keeping the employees more
safer. The safety and security can also be used to relate to the wellness activities and the
flexible scheduling (Ujita 2017). This can be seen as a major cost that the company has to
bear, however, if applied properly the policies can get a longer return term on the
investments. Employing these policies helps the company in showcasing that the company is
concerned about the safety and security of the employees and not just the profit that they
want.
The employees can also be felt secured by having flexible working hours for them.
Having a flexible working hour can help the employees in having a better work life balance.
This helps the employee in focusing more on the job and handling the work pressure as they
want (Tarmizi, et. al 2017). It makes them have a greater level of productivity, which also
helps the company in gaining more profit. It is a win-win situation for both the employer and
the employee.
The safety and security was taken as one of the most utmost importance tasks in PAC
resources (Perkins 2015). The company wanted the employees to be safe while working on
the projects. The safety and security of the employees had to be taken into consideration
before implementing any policies in the company.
The wellness program that the company offers is for the employees that smoke. The
health insurance policy that the company has must be equal for all the employees (Jones,
Molitor and Reif 2019). The workers who attend the wellness program to quit smoking
regularly should not have to pay the premium from their own pockets while those who don’t

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attend it regularly must pay the premium on their own. This will help more employees in
attending the wellness program and having less people smoking in the work place.
By ensuring that these policies are implemented correctly and efficiently can help the
company in growing and can also combat the weather the business downturn that has been
taking place in the market. The company Pac Resources Inc. tried to have the policies in
place, yet when the whole management of the job fell on Jose Vasquez in become difficult
for the company in keeping the policies up to date that would help the employees and the
company.
The safety and security of the company after the promotion of Ben Trudeau feel on
the shoulders of Jose Vasquez. Vasquez had performed with Trudeau on the wellness affairs
and had managed safety training. The company has big examples of workers’ compensation
claims mainly for the carpal tunnel syndrome (Perkins 2015). The goal of Vasquez is to
check the workstation of the organisation and come up with an ergonomic change. He came
up with a database that would help him in tracking the project. They have come up with an
active wellness program with the local hospital that would conduct the onsitehealth fair that
would provide the employees with a free health check-up and for them to maintain a healthy
weight and not smoke.
The audit of the ergonomics is so involving that Vasquez cannot be available for
something else. He is busy involved in checking the production workstation or tracking the
work progress on the spreadsheet (Anon 2017). Vasquez as has a short tenure and as his
focus is on ergonomics he is not capable to manage the entire department. This was done
because of the hiring freeze and to hire the HR could not go out to hire.
The safety and security of the company was greatly affected because of the hiring
freeze. The person hired had little to no experience in the field and thus managing one of the

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most important department in the company was in the hands of an inadequate person.
Vasquez could not manage the task burden alone and thus there were many employees that
faced problems due to their being a gap in the training of the safety procedures and the safety
procedures applied in the company.
The job hazard that was being faced in the company was assigned by Shilling to
Vasquez who was not an adequate person in handling the job. He had limitations in getting
the work done quickly and also up to the mark.
Staffing
Staffing is also one of the major issues that the company was facing and it made the
employees feel threatened and less safe in the working environment of the company. The
hiring freeze in the company and the layoff made the employees scared on losing their jobs.
The employees are the people that make the company and having the employees of the
company must feel safe in the environment that they work in. The company has to make sure
that there is unbiased recuruitment and promotion in the company and that all employees are
treated equally and that the grievance that they have is solved in a quick manner.
The staffing of the company has been managed by Kim Wong since the company had
less than 100 employees. The company is like a tight ship and the department of staffing is
managed by Wong and one recruiter and an administrative assistant. The manager, Wong, is
an admired personality in the organisation for the rigid commitment to ensure that there is
impartiality in hiring and placement.
He had newly finished the violent hiring drive at the main universities and hired CAD
specialists and new engineers .The downturn of the sales had changed the morale of the
employees and they were not motivated to work. The department had only known about the
staffing and had no plan for the laying off of the employees that they had to recently come up

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with a plan in order to fire the employees (Nasiripour, Afshar Kazemi and Izadi 2012). The
staffing manager had been worried that lying off the employees that were recently hired
would create a negative impression of the company in the eyes of the people. The company
has to work up some plan to maintain the hired hands yet to save the cost of the company.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that the employees of the PAC
Resource Inc. were not satisfied by the policies of the company and that the downturn of the
market resulted in the company having to fire the employees. The HR played an important
role in the strategic management of the company and devised many plans like training the
employees in many sectors like the skill development and teaching them about harassment.
The company also came up with many policies like the leave policy that was made for the
betterment of the company. The company also reimbursed the tuition fees of the students that
were studying in the technical field of the company. The company also made sure that the
policies they were implementing was in the favour of the whole organisation and not just a
handful of people. The changes made the HR were important as it made the employees have a
safe space to talk about their work and problems and also come up with solutions. These
policies helped the company during weather down and also in improving the business. The
HR policies were changed and it was made sure that there was no favouritism played during
the implementing of the policies.

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