EFFECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ON JOB PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT

Ocuupational health and safety have great importance in the employees work environment because now a days human resource is the most valuable asset that an organization does have and the existance of bad occupational health and safety environment greatly affect the job performance of employees. In this study the policies regarding occupational health and safety, health hazards associated with the job environment, employer’s responsibility for having good occupational health and safety measures are discussed. Purpose of the study is to know the effects of occupational health and safety on job performance, the lack of health and safety measures at workplace and how health hazards reduce job performance of the employees. Data was collected from different sources, sampling techniques were applied to the data collected and analysis was done through different quantitative tools thus recommendations and conclusions were drawn from that.

Introduction:
The purpose of this paper is to revise the effects of occupational health and safety on job performance of the employees’ i.e. how health hazards at occupational environment affect the employee job performance. Employees at work environment are out in the open to many of the health and safety hazards. The human resource is the most valuable asset at workplace because its effective and efficient use can result in higher level of performance in other areas of the organization so for this reason it’s necessary to provide healthy and safe environment to the workers so that the employee job performance can be sustained (Bamutire Brenda, 2007).
At place of work health and safety has become well known term and commonly used in all types of print media specially Journals and magazines (Karen Danna et al, 1999).
As Kofi Annan UN’s Former Secretary General