MGT 3050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Occupational Disease, Workplace Violence, Safety Data Sheet
HR Chapter 3: Creating a culture of wellbeing
CREATING A HEALTHY AND SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT
• Legal framework
• Duties and responsibilities of employers, employees, and supervisors
• Recognize that younger employees may need more training and understanding of their
role in creating the environment
WORKERS COMPENSATION
• Workers can receive benefits in the form of cash payouts or wage loss payments if
absent due to work-related injury or serious illness
• Pays for medical expenses and vocational rehabilitation
PROMOTING WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Promoting safety awareness
• Safety awareness programs
– Communication role of supervisor
– Proactive safety training programs including use of technology
• Enforcement of safety rules
• Accident investigations and records
• Health hazards and issues
– WHMIS
– Psychological strain
– Cumulative trauma disorder
Injuries involving tendons of the fingers, hands or arms that become
inflamed from repeated stresses and strains
BUILDING A CULTURE OF WELLBEING
• Better health benefits individuals and organization
• Close relationship between physical and emotional health and job performance
• Comprehensive approach
• Health services
• Wellness programs
• Disability management: integrated approach to managing disability related benefits
• Occupational Injury: any cut, fracture, sprain or amputation resulting from a workplace
accident
• Occupational illness: abnormal condition or disorder resulting from exposure to
environmental factors in the workplace
• Industrial disease: a disease resulting from exposure relating to a particular process,
trade or occupation in industry.
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Document Summary
Hr chapter 3: creating a culture of wellbeing. Legal framework: duties and responsibilities of employers, employees, and supervisors, recognize that younger employees may need more training and understanding of their role in creating the environment. Workers compensation: workers can receive benefits in the form of cash payouts or wage loss payments if absent due to work-related injury or serious illness, pays for medical expenses and vocational rehabilitation. Promoting workplace health and safety: promoting safety awareness, safety awareness programs. Proactive safety training programs including use of technology: enforcement of safety rules, accident investigations and records, health hazards and issues. Injuries involving tendons of the fingers, hands or arms that become inflamed from repeated stresses and strains. Industrial disease: a disease resulting from exposure relating to a particular process, trade or occupation in industry. Documents that contain vital information about hazardous substances.
