WEB-BASED ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

In this century, HRIS has already comprised and provide various kind of software for HR management includes the Occupational Safety and Health. Safety and health at the workplace nowadays has become a great concern towards both workers and their employer since much more developed machine is being used in the industry and thus it may increase the awareness of safety among the workers and the employer. 

            Every company registered under the Human Resource Ministry will be automatically occupied with the occupational safety law or the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). This law was passed by the Congress in 1970 to assure so far as possible safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve human resources. This is because, human resources is the most important assets in one’s company because without them, the company might not even operated. OSHA has sets a general standard in all areas of working condition; from the industrial until the maritime standards. OSHA also set a rule where any organization with 11 or more employees to keep record of the employees’ injuries an d always report the injuries.

            In OSHA, both employers and employees have their own right and responsibilities. Below are the responsibilities and right of employers in OSHA: 

• To meet the duty on providing safe environment for the employees
• To be familiar with the OSHA standards
• To make sure that the work environment comply with the OSHA standards
• They have to seek for advice from OSHA for their safe work environment
• Request and received proper identification of OSHA compliance officer before making inspection.

Below are the responsibilities of the employees and their right in OSHA:

1. Need to comply with each and every applicable OSHA standards
2. Follow all employer safety and health rules and regulation
3. Must report hazardous situation to the immediate supervisor
4. The employees has the right to demand for safety in their workplace

In this technological era, most of the workplace has been installed with variety of machines or software for safety. For example, CCTV for surveillance purpose of the safety in workplace. Besides that, there also system that is functioned to monitor the workplace hazardous situation. It is called the Construction Safety and Health Monitoring (CSHM) system. The system was created as detector to detect if the workplace has high potential of hazard risk. With the internet advantages, the system enable remote access, speedy data collection, retrieval and documentation allows the user to monitor the project performance over a certain period through analysis of the scores given to some selected parameters.

REFERENCES:

1. Clarke, E. E. (2004). Multidisciplinary Occupational Health Services. Finland: the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. 
2. Human Resource Information System (HRIS), Web-based Occupational Safety and Health’s Lecture Note,   by Nurnaha bt Nur Mansor