Leadership and Management: Workplace Health and Safety Analysis

This report examines the importance of workplace health and safety (WHS) within a manufacturing context, emphasizing the role of leadership and management. It addresses the need for comprehensive WHS programs to protect employees from hazards like oil leakage and sawdust exposure. The report highlights the significance of implementing measurable systems to assess WHS performance, improving work environments, and providing adequate training to workers. It also stresses the importance of updating machinery and equipment to ensure worker safety. Furthermore, the report references key literature, including Dwyer and Hopwood (2013) and Loeppke et al. (2015), to support the analysis of WHS strategies and their impact on organizational objectives. The report underscores the role of the Plant Manager in ensuring a safe working environment and providing instructions to new workers, aligning WHS with ethical work practices and organizational success.

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Answer to Question 8
Workplace Health and Safety Movement System is a wide approach to maintain
health security and reduce the risk of illness at the workplace (Loeppke et al. 2015) The main
purpose or objective of WHS is to provide a steady and balanced environment to secure the
health and safety of the workers and workplaces. A new employee of large manufacturing
and assembling operations of was exposed to hazardous oil leakage and sawdust. In this large
manufacturing and assembling operations safety precautions must be taken. This will lead to
higher productivity as well. Measurable systems should be developed to verify work health
and safety performance. Business opportunities can increase if work health and safety
movements are improved at the workplace. The Plant Manager must give reasonable
protection to all his employees. It is his duty to give instructions to new workers about the
assigned job. To improve health and safety system at workplace, work methods and morale of
the workers should be ethical and upgraded. Improving the work environment will reduce the
level of illness and injury among the workers. Clear and relevant training and information
should be provided to the workers so that they can work safely with the instruments (Dwyer
and Hopwood 2013). In an organization, risk control measures or strategies needs to be
developed from time to time. Instruments and machineries used in a workplace should be
updated, improved and maintained to ensure health and safety measure of the workers while
working. Therefore, such developments and improvements will help manufacturing and
assembling operations to achieve organizational WHS objectives.

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References:
Dwyer, J. and Hopwood, N., 2013. Management strategies and skills (Vol. 10, p. 240). in
Australia by McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 2, 82 Waterloo Road, North
Ryde NSW 2113.
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-
597.