Web Based Occupational Safety and Health

Nowadays the occupational safety and health is important in the workplace. The employer and employees need to familiar about the OSHA standard, to examine workplace conditions to make sure to apply standard and to meet the duty to provide ‘a workplace free from recognized hazards’. The employers and employees also need to take responsibilities to comply with all applicable OSHA standards, follow all employer safety and health rules and regulation, to report hazardous conditions to the supervisor.

The function of the Web Based Occupational Safety and Health is a promoting safety and health in the community, giving the education to employers and employees, giving the consultancy service about the safety and health in the workplace, and also give the information to employers and employees.

 One of Web Based the organizational use is an OSHA’s Safety and Health Management System e-Tool. This system helps employees and employers to guide about them the safety and health. This system also can help the organization to reduce the accidents in the workplace and the employee will follow the safety and health standard.

            The Module Safety and Health Management Systems e-Tool have four steps. The first step is a Safety and Health Payoffs. Why the organization needs this system. It is because can help the employer to reduce the cost. When using this system it can give benefit to organization to reduce the absenteeism, reduces the turnover, improve the productivity and also improve the employee’s attitude.

            The second step is Management System + S&H Integration. It’s an explanation about this system. This emphasizes the idea that it’s fine to produce as hard fast as possible, as long as it can be done with safety. This step will give the question to answer about safety and health in the workplace.

            The third step is a Doing a Safety & Health Check UP. It’s a conducting a safety and health check up. Here the employee can access the company safety and health system. The evaluation will divide in four sections which are management leadership or employee involvement, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control and safety and health training. If the employees want to go to the online evaluation, they need to complete the survey first to get the rating.

            The last step to being a Creating Change. After employee complete the third step, the employee will know what the organization doing in implementing a safety and health system

           Reference:

                 1.      http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/safetyhealth/index.html