Health And Safety Plan

1. What are the problems and limitations of WHSMS?

2. How communicate and explain evaluation of WHS performance to others in relation to areas that require changes?

 

1. While implementing health and safety plan, there are some common limitations have been found. It has been found that most of the employees think safety as someone else’s problem. For this reason they become negligent and increases risk at workplace (Saracino et al. 2012). It has been found that management of the organization does not really care about safety at workplace. They are only concerned about performance.  They put productivity and performance ahead of safety measures. The management of the organization believes in too much paper work related with safety producers rather than implementation.  Rather than taking precautions, they like to react to injuries. It has been found that management does not found it necessary to involved people (employees) with the risk management procedure. It has been found that the new risk management system is too complicated for the business (Goh et al. 2012). It has been found that the implemented risk management system is too complicated to understand for some employees within the organization. Moreover it has been found that the monitoring system is inefficient. The management does not review the system regularly. While implementing health & Safety plan, it has been found that most of the employees do not have sufficient training and information about workplace health and safety. Most of the employees only have technical training (work related). For this reason they become negligent to their safety and safety of others.

2. In order to implement a suitable change in any given organization regarding health and safety management, it is necessary that the employees be committed to practices of safety management. There are several steps, which would be quite effective for the successful implementation of the health and safety practices. The first step that would be most necessary is proper review and evaluation of the organizational systems. The second step would be focusing on planning to come to a most crucial strategy for health and safety management practice. The third step would be undertaking action for implementing the changes within the organization according to the planning (Goh et al. 2012). Most generally, these actions include injury management, emergency readiness, contractor management, incident investigation, training and supervision as well as hazard management. The improvement of the health and safety management practice must be conducted through a distinct cycle, which can be considered as improvement cycle.

Figure 1: Improvement Cycle

(Source: Goh et al. 2012)

The organization is continuously stayed at risk from various hazards as well as risk factors. Therefore, it is evident that the organization needed to implement this particular management practices quite urgently so that the organization can improve its performance regarding the health and safety practice. The review part of the improvement cycle can effectively identify the injury factors as well as hazards (Saracino et al. 2012). In addition to that, the current systems and practices can effectively identify by these improvement cycle. The planning part has the capability to identify the effective objectives. Moreover, it can successfully determine the necessary sources. However, it is evident that the planning, review as well as action of improvement cycle must be executed with proper specialist advice.

Reference list

Goh, Y.M., Love, P.E., Stagbouer, G. and Annesley, C., 2012. Dynamics of safety performance and culture: A group model building approach. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 48, pp.118-125.

Saracino, A., Spadoni, G., Curcuruto, M., Guglielmi, D., Bocci, V.M., Cimarelli, M., Dottori, E. and Violante, F.S., 2012. A new model for evaluating occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS).Chemical Engineering Transactions, 26, pp.519-524.