Healthy Workplace Flashcards
What constitute occupational health • What constitute a primary health care
WHO definition of a healthy workplace
“where workers and managers collaborate to use continual improvement processes to protect and promote health, safety and the well-being of all workers and the sustainability of the workplace.”
What does a healthy workplace consist of?
- Physical work environment - Psycho-social work environment - Personal health resources - Enterprise-community environment
What is the physical work environment?
- Perimeters of where site will be 2. Land around your working place 3. No communities in the vicinity 4. People around with machinery working on a specific work process 5. Introduction of occupational health program
What is the psycho-social work environment?
- Concentrates on the people in the workplace 2. Organisational structure with values 3. Work pressure / stress 4. Type of job 5. Payment 6. Shifts etc
What is personal health resources?
Primary health care
What is enterprise-community environment?
Community involvement
Model of healthy workplace improvement process
- Mobilize a. Engage with company and understand what they want to achieve 2. Assemble a. Look at contract and mandate b. ID key people in company c. Decide who to involve and when d. ID which professionals need to be on your team 3. Assess a. ID the hazards b. Check the controls c. Assess the risk d. Prioritize and put in place the controls e. Re-assess the residual risk 4. Prioritize a. After doing everything - prioritize what you are putting in place b. i.e. Rank the risks 5. Plan a. Document plan based on what you are doing b. Plan will be informed by substance and will be verified against literature c. Bounce plan around people you mobilized d. Bounce plan around management - take to appropriate structures: i. Occupational Health and Safety Committee 6. Do: a. List of activities to do b. Actionable plan c. One of the primary things to do is to write policies d. Might also start with medical surveillance program 7. Evaluate 8. Improve if anything can be improved And then the cycle starts again.
History of Global Efforts To Improve Worker Health
- 1981 ILO Convention 155 - “All companies must have national OHS policies” - 1985 ILO Convention 161 - “Specify what OHS services must be rendered” Risk assessment / medical surveillance / advice and processes / induction and controls / Occupational Hygiene including ergonomics / Health promotion / rehabilitation / training / first aid and emergency training / reports
How to create a healthy workplace?
- process as important as content - use models
Organizational health definition
“a coordinated strategy for managing all the facets of health in the organisation…”
Organizational Health
Successful implementation of OHP requires?
- Alignment with key business objectives. - Senior management ownership, creating an enabling environment - Reporting lines with clear roles, responsibilities and deliverables. - Management systems and tools by which to deliver the required objectives. - Motivated and competent people that drive the process
