In recent years, much focus has been placed on maintaining staff member health. Attempting to keep healthcare costs down is a enormous concern. As health insurance costs skyrocket, corporations need to focus on how to use preventive medicine to their benefit, and the benefit of their workforce.
One way businesses can use preventive healthcare is to initiate an worker health promotion program. This kind of health promotion program can do a lot to help employees look at their current lifestyle and see how that compares to what a healthy lifestyle looks like. Educating employees about what steps they are able to take to attain the goal of overall wellness is the main reason to establish a health promotion program.
If an business begins a health promotion program, they ought to see a marked reduction in medical costs. If an employee is healthier, the business will see maximum employee performance. Staff Members who are in top physical health will do better work and the business will benefit from this.
An staff member who takes wellness seriously, is less likely to take sick days, and less sick days equals a better quality of work.
Incentives and rewards are a great way to motivate employees to take part in such a health promotion program. Businesss need to make prizes appealing and desirable. Incentives go a long way to motivate employees to begin, take action, and stay on track towards a healthy lifestyle.
An employee wellness program assists to give valuable information regarding diet, exercise, immunizations, and how to stop smoking. Changing bad habits can be facilitated easily by a wellness program.
A health promotion program can give ideas to optimize staff member health and create a healthful lifestyle by helping to form goals and goals that can be attained through education and encouragement.
October 14th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Safety Culture….
Organisational culture is a concept often used to describe shared corporate values that affect and influence members’ attitudes and behaviours. Safety culture is a sub-facet of organisational culture, which is thought to affect members’ attitudes and behaviour in relation to an organisations ongoing health & safety performance. However, the myriad of definitions of organisational ‘culture’ and ‘safety culture’ that abound in both the management and safety literature suggests that the concept of business-specific cultures is not clear-cut. Placing such ‘culture’ constructs into a goal-setting paradigm appears to provide greater clarity than has hitherto been the case. Moreover, as yet there is no universally accepted model with which to formulate testable hypotheses that take into account antecedents, behaviour(s) and consequence(s). A reciprocal model of safety culture drawn from Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) is offered so as to provide both a theoretical and practical framework with which to measure and analyse safety culture. Implications for future research to establish the models utility and validity are addressed.
Reminder …. 2-4 % of accidents are system failures 96-98% is behavior/attitude now we know that:
Full time employees have developed a mindset that safety equipment is the armour that protects them on site. This behavioral aspect us taken further to the extent that a permanent employee cannot SEE an situation or risk , its as if the brain was left in the changeroom. Why? as industry we have created the enviroment for it to happen . This leads to a fluid intelligence level which is very low… To a mindset of PPE protects, eg safety gloves protect your hands and the most important PPE is gloves overalls, glasses, earplugs etc INSTEAD OFF,,,the function of a glove is to find your finger …when you cut it off, Better still, the most important PPE issued sits between the ears …..called the BRAIN…..if this PPE IS ACTIVATED safety accidents drop to Zero!