After reading more and more about Human resources, and epically when I came to the part that discuss occupation safety and health, I started to understand more and more about how important human resources management it is to organization for both the management and owner section and employees favor too.
The Laws and regulations issued by the government aim to create safer and better environment for work to employees, and on the other hand, if those regulations applied carefully in organizations, I believe it will insure safer and less risk environment to employers too.
In my country Egypt, there are 29 Article in labour law that regulates Vocational Safety And Ensuring
Labour Environment security ( 2003 ). Below I will high light on some of them
Article (208) in Labour law says
“The establishment and its branches shall provide the means of vocational safety and health and ensuring labor environment security in places of work by which to ensure protection from physical and risks resulting in particular from the following
A ) severity and intensity of heat and chilliness;
B ) noise and vibration
C ) lighting;
D ) Harmful and dangerous radiations ;
E ) Atmospheric pressure changes ;
F ) static and dynamic electricity ; and
G ) Explosion risks. “ (Labour Law, Law No. 12 Of The Year 2003 P.88)
This article was the first article in ensuring labour environment security part in Egyptian labor law. The importance of this article is that it illustrate the responsibilities and duties of the organization with all its branches to provide all the needed security tools to protect the employees and to ensure safe work environment, with details of the types of hazards that might occur in work environment.
Later on in the law of labor, the Legislator made different articles to specifically describe more details and responsibilities on the organization for