...Improving Behavioural Safety Culture at M/s ITPC Problem Statement: Several Greenfield thermal projects have recently mushroomed under 11th five year plan in India. Being a green field project in the remote location, getting skilled man-power is one of the biggest challenges. As a part of inclusive growth approach, employing plant affected people (PAP) is an obligation. Irrespective of the qualification & educational background, industry needs to employ plant affected people which consists mainly raw hands. Being new to the industry and its requirement, they invariably lack industrial safety and behavioural safety as well. ITPC has experienced 3 fatal accidents and 32 Lost Time Incidents (LTI) which back laid the organization and the plant was required to shut for almost a period of 24 days in totality. Operating a plant with Safety is of paramount priority and with this vision inculcation of safety culture among workmen coming from PAP (Project Affected People) in a Greenfield project is a big challenge. In Indian Thermal Power Company (ITPC), hundreds of unskilled, semi-skilled & unskilled people were engaged. 98% of them are from rural background. Some of them were first generation learner. They have never seen industrial work culture. Operating plant with such raw hands was challenge for ITPC. ITPC top management was in dilemma that to improve the safety work culture where majority of the work force is not even familiar with the ABC of safety. Background: ITPC...
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...Workplace Safety Article: Avoiding Corporate Complacency Every day in the United States on the average, 15 workers lose their lives as a result of injuries or illnesses related to their work - that's over 5700 people. These people leave behind families, friends, and co-workers. The single most common cause is complacency - an attitude that "it won't happen to me." Complacency Kills The Entire Organization Too often individuals and companies become complacent when it comes to safety. Managers are satisfied with mediocre safety performance and do not work to improve the environment by raising safety awareness and eliminating the potential for injury. Employees are content and are not attentive to their work environments. They become convinced that management is not concerned about safety. They begin to think they are not responsible for their own safety. Over time, the entire organization gives little meaningful attention to safety. The result is that employees begin to get in a hurry and take shortcuts on the job. They are more focused on production and getting the job done than getting it done safely. That attitude becomes an organizational norm. Near misses go unreported. No one wants to take the time to fill out forms and employees don't understand the connection between sharing information and eliminating injuries. Managers do not pay attention to reports, so they become unimportant. The number of injuries increases and they become more severe. Everyone becomes...
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...Why be concerned about culture when it comes to safety? The answer: corporate culture influences all the important things that go on in a company. It determines how employees, suppliers, and customers are treated and work together; how well production or services are performed; how distribution is handled and how employee safety is addressed. What causes employee accidents? The most frequent answer is "carelessness of the employees." This is not surprising as committee of industrial safety, stated in the 1990's "The unsafe acts of persons are responsible for the majority of accidents". Even today knowing the important role culture plays on reducing accidents most managers still firmly believe "unsafe actions" or "at risk behaviors" are responsible for most employee accidents. The idea seems to be embedded in their DNA. In other words it is part of their culture. There are four essential elements for effective team management: The culture of the organization must lead, support and protect teams. People, managers and workers, must have or acquire the interpersonal and rational skills required to work effectively on a team. People must be given the opportunity to practice team skills before working on an actual team managed project and continually thereafter. It will take time and patience to develop and hone these skills. As teams progress they must be given the appropriate level of authority to implement ideas and recommendations without management oversight...
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...Resources Administration of Workplace Safety Introduction Human resources administration is frequently considered with limited recognition for all the intrinsic responsibilities that are vastly complex and broad in scope. Some of the responsibilities of an enterprises’ human resources department include: the assurance that the enterprise is in conformance with State and Federal employment laws; prompt payroll processing; accounting, tax calculation and filing; employee fulfillment; workplace safety requirements and wide-ranging benefits to name a few. Given the complexity of the many roles of an enterprises’ human resources department, the question is can the human resources department effectively manage workplace safety requirements as they pertain to the inspection of the workplace for health and safety problems as well as the development of training programs. This paper will examine the enterprises’ human resource department ability to deftly manage workplace safety in the areas of inspection and development. Background According to Eckhardt (2001), the moral obligation of safety in the workplace will likely have divergent interpretations depending on the enterprises’ culture, funding and priorities. Federal regulations, as they are related to workplace safety in the area of inspection and development, are established in order to ensure that industry standards are practiced industry wide. Admin (2011), cites fundamental workplace safety inspection and development...
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...relation to the position and to the business as well. It is shown to be beneficial to employees and executives to use a decision making process in the development of making important decisions; there are many approaches as well as many consequences to making ethical decisions. Good ethics start with the employer and how they handle and execute their ethics and provide a good working example for their employees. There are many viewpoints on what ethics are, especially in relation to business, “Ethical obligations are a set of “ought to” standards that define a moral course of action and draw a line between right and wrong” (Lohrey). Business ethics can be comprised of written and formal guidelines in relation to an organization’s morals. Many businesses use their code of conduct or credo as their guidelines to communicating their organizational ethics, “Business ethics manifests both as written and unwritten codes of moral standards that are critical to the current activities and future aspirations of a business organization. They can differ from one company to another because of differences in cultural perspectives, operational structures and strategic orientations” (Merchant). It is said that at times a law may not be morally right to some and at times what is morally wrong is completely legal; it is not always strictly the law to refer to when it comes to business ethics, “The law defines what is and is not legal, but the...
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...Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace Occupational safety and health (OSH) also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS) or workplace health and safety (WHS) is an area concerned with the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goals of occupational safety and health programs include fostering a safe and healthy work environment. OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment. Human resources are one of the most important features of many businesses. A business’ success relies heavily on the effectiveness to which this resource is managed. Policies and practices used by the firm, set out the standards to which they seek to aspire. They are designed to govern the operation of the business; especially in today’s economy where there is such a rise in service industries. This paper seek to highlight the importance of Workplace Health and safety to the business, to develop an understanding of how its effective management can affect the performance of a business, outline how this can be effectively carried out with the interest of the company in mind. It is often said that, “the health of a nation is the wealth of a nation”, the same concept applies to business. The health and safety of a company’s human resource is an enormous contributor to the success of that business. Human resources account for a large proportion of many company’s'...
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...Introduction to Health & Safety (H & S): Health & Safety in the workplace first became a concern in the early 19th Century when the UK’s Factories Act appointed just four inspectors to regulate safety in more than 3000 child textile factories. Healthy and safe workplaces are fundamental to achieving productive work and high quality working lives. Nowadays many companies are committed to providing a safe workplace for its employees and improving their health through better diets, work practices and lifestyles. A Health and Safety Management system is a complete process of hazard identification, risk assessment and control, employee training, record keeping, program assessment and management involvement throughout, designed to effectively manage and ensure continued employee health and safety in the workplace. Safety and health management system can be important for moral, legal, and financial reasons. All organizations have a duty of care to ensure that employees and any other person who may be affected by the companies undertaking remain safe at all times Relevance of the topic in HRM Occupational Health and Safety has become a highly specialized area with important legal responsibilities and implications. The function is not always part of the human resource management role, but is intricately related to human resource functions, and particularly to the area of risk management. The areas of employee health and wellness and employee assistance programs are newer...
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...My presentation is on Ethics. First of all we should know what is ethics?? Ethics is the inner guiding moral principles, values, and beliefs that people use to analyze or interpret a situation and then decide what is the “right” and or appropriate way to behave. (Contemporary Management, 3rd edition, Jones and Geroge) Ethics is knowing the difference between the what you have a right to do and what right thing you have to do. It is a general practice throughout the world. It is not just the part of the business world. If follow the certain ethics, we will have better chance of survival. And if we do not follow the rules of ethics even than we will end up somewhere higher, but we will not have the good will, reputation or for sure we will not in the good books of a lot of people. It does not tell you to follow the society, but to research what really is right. Ethics refers to standards of right and wrong that is people are supposed to do, like moral obligations, fairness, benefits to society, honesty, loyalty, virtues, back off or hold back somebody to fraud, rape, stealing, bullying. A business is not just about money making at all costs. There are considerations to be made outside traditional money making and ethical and moral considerations.. Every organization has a written codes of ethics Codes of ethics: A written set of guidelines issued by an organization to its workers and management to help them conduct their actions in accordance with its primary values...
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...Case * Watched video on Disney and how they treat employees, work is a performance etc. * Ethics is the study of morality * Morality refers to the standards that an individual or group has about what is right/wrong, good/evil. * Business Ethics concentrates on moral standards as they apply to business policies, institutions, and behaviour * Corporate Social Responsibility refers specifically to a description and moral evaluation of the impact than an organization has on society * Ethics can be a business constraint “ethics costs” but also an advantage “ethics pays” 1970 – 1985: Rise of business ethics (academia) 1985 – 1995: Ethics into firms 1995 – 2000: Internationalization 2000 – 2012: Corporate Scandals and government regulation * Ethics Scandal Costs: Fines, lawsuits, prison, investor losses, bankruptcies, unemployment, and increased regulation * Market Morality: Will everyone invest their money as agreed or will greed effect them? * Parable of the Sandhu Ethics vs. the law Unclear over moral responsibility Easier to say what is morally right than to do it * Employees value health and safety ethics Consumers value product safety Shareholders want return on investment Need to look at environment * Macroenvironment: social, economic, political, technological factors * Our society is pluralistic in nature * Pluralism: there is diffusion of power among society’s many groups and organizations Decentralization...
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...conduct of dealing with what is good or bad and right or wrong. The same values that determine an individual’s conduct also apply to business. In today’s world, ethics is a fundamental aspect when it comes to managing a business. Business ethics are moral principles that provide a guideline to organizations regarding how a business should run. A business that is ethical will also recognise the responsibility for minimising the non-financial costs. Human Resource Managers (HRM) plays an important role when it comes to guiding the organization in an ethical way as they are in charge of ethical issues that arise from the employer to employee relationship. The Human Resources (HR) function deals with a wide range of responsibilities and also it includes many ethical issues which may damage a company’s reputation and financial statistics if not handled properly (Ingram n.d.). They are obliged to run their duties ethically when employing people, conducting performance appraisals and ensuring health and safety in the workplace. Most importantly, they play a role in creating a culture of mutual respect and dignity. HR managers can guide employees understand the ethical issues using behavioural role modelling, personal reflection and moral dilemma discussions (Wells & Schminke 2001). The primary responsibility of a HR manager is the recruitment and selection of employees. They have to meet workforce demand and supply. In the recruitment process, the HR manager is required to...
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...2016 A Call to Action: How to Intervene in Workplace Harassment Workplace harassment is a significant violation in the modern work environment. According to the Canadian Human Rights Commission Workplace harassment "involves any unwanted physical or verbal behaviour that offends or humiliates you...Serious one-time incidents can also sometimes be considered harassment." (Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2013) If left uncheck accusations of workplace harassment could potentially put a business in trouble with the regulatory agencies. In the workplace, employees experience sexual, gender, and racial/ethnic harassment. The Ontario Ministry of Labour has developed recommendations and guidelines as a way to reduce the occurrences of workplace harassment. On the other hand, employers also a responsibility to put in place “best practices” for employees to follow to ensure a safe work environment for everyone. Intervention is needed because persons who experience harassment have a hard time fight back. Because laws on workplace harassment are not sufficient to punish harassers. The act of workplace harassment/violence on the job is considered a legal and ethical issue. According to Ontario law, employers, managers, and unions have to thwart actively and monitor occurrences of workplace harassment to be in compliance with the “Ontario human rights code.” (Labour, 2015) Additionally, employers must also provide training on workplace harassment when they hire new employees. In...
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...patient safety, human rights, and dignity. Professional nurses are in a unique position as patient advocates, regardless of practice setting. Nurse’s face inherent ethical decisions making, and they are frequently involved in the ethical decisions both personally and professionally when ethical reason both for and against the choice are both equally desirable (Pierce, 1997). The ANA Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements offers a statement for every professional nurse’s ethical obligations and duties, ethical standard, and commitment to society (ANA, 2001). Nurse must continuously meet standards of care and the ANA Code of Ethics and uphold fundamental legalities. Taking a closer look into the nurses ethical responsibility and fundamental legalities associated with direct patient care and as it would apply in the case study case study of patient Marianne, a 79 year-old female, who is admitted to the emergency department with hemorrhagic stroke, a grave prognosis of recovery and no advance directive. This paper will discuss legal responsibilities of the registered nurse as witness in a malpractice case of a nurse colleague found negligent in following standards of nursing practice. “The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient who is the recipient of nursing care,” (Rushton, Dixon, & Wavra, 2005, p. 6). This quote applies to both nursing dilemmas discussed. The primary obligation of the nurse is to protect the patient’s best interest, maintaining safety, dignity...
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...Employment Health and Safety in Lebanon Group: Maya Shakaron-Deema Fakher- Ibrahim Ramadan * Introduction: -Health and safety is all about preventing people from being harmed by work or becoming ill by taking the right precautions. -Health and safety laws are found because health and safety at work is so important. -The law is there to protect the public from workplace dangers. - Employers are ethically required to provide a safe and healthy workplace for their employees. -Ethics instruct the individuals and organization as to what they should do. * Body: - Health is the state of well-being in which all components of health are in balance. -Components of health: 1. Physical: refers to the way your body functions. 2. Social: the quality of your relationships with friends, family, and others. 3. Environmental: keeping your air and water clean, your food safe, and the land around you enjoyable. 4. Emotional: expressing your emotions in a positive nondestructive way. 5. Spiritual: maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose. 6. Intellectual/ mental: the ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of daily life. -Wellness is the achievement of a person’s best in all six components of health. -Factors affecting your health: 1. Heredity 2. Environment 3. Peers 4. Culture 5. Media 6. Technology 7. Attitude 8. Behavior -Food safety is an increasingly important...
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...Summary: The Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) had a very strong value based- culture. Every decision and every action an employee made must be aligned with the company’s values. Fred Fetterolf the president of the company in 1985, decided the company needed to document the values that all employees must live by: Integrity; Environment, Health and Safety; Customer; Accountability; Excellence; People; and Profitability. Alcoa had implemented a global ethics and compliance program, and the focus on health and safety was interwoven through the company’s program. This program included all the basic elements specified in the U.S Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The company made it clear that the program’s tools must be understandable by all employees, must support the company’s strong value system, and must be continually reinforced by management. A normal Alcoa day started out all business meetings with an identification of exits, the evacuation plans in the event of an emergency, and other safety procedures. However, some safety procedures differed among Alcoa’s various business, corporate headquarters required all of its units to meet the same overall goal: zero work-related injuries and illnesses. Alcoa’s management team supported the ethical principal that no employees should leave work in a worse condition than when they arrived. In 1996, one of Alcoa’s Mexican facilities had deteriorated, allegations coming from activist shareholders at the annual meeting...
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...Summary Stress is a term we all are aware of, and it is experienced by people in their different workplaces. Stress in the workplace is detrimental to human health and organization when it comes to productivity, performance standards and job satisfaction. Organizations whose workers are stressed are likely to be successful in a competitive market. Workers who are stressed are more likely to be unhealthy, poorly motivated, less productive and less safe at work. Stress can be destructive in a way that, after reaching a certain point, the performance of the employees begins to reduce also which prevents fulfillment of work and various assignments. The following are the causes of stress in the workplace; Exhaustion (weakens the employees mentally and physically), moral injury (destructive of self-esteem of employees or lack of confidence in their abilities, discrimination), illness of the employees (feeling of irritation, uncertainty, guilt or mistrust), violence (damage to the property of the employees or organization), long hours, lack of rewards or incentives by the managers and managers lackadaisical attitude to employees. Stress can be brought to a minimal level; to prevent stress, we have to identify, know the causes and prevent it. The reduction or elimination of stress are the employee’s participation in the management, improvement of communication skills of managers, adequate training should be given to employees in other to prevent negligence of training which...
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