Workplace health and safety procedures are necessary for the well-being of both employers and employees. Violence in the workplace is an ever-growing concern in today’s business community. Diseases and other health concerns also affect a worker's ability to effectively perform his job duties. Thanks.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Occupational Health and Safety
Safety in the workplace is critical to the success of your business, no matter what size it is. As a small business owner you have responsibilities regarding health and safety in your workplace. Even if you don’t have any employees, you must ensure that your business doesn’t create health and safety problems for your customers and the general public. Occupational health and safety (OHS) WA is an important workplace behavior - if we can prevent injury, illness and death at work. Knowing and understanding the Occupational Health and Safety(OH&S) WAlaws will help you avoid the unnecessary costs and damage to your business caused by workplace injury and illness. Occupational health and safety WA encompasses the social, mental and physical well-being of workers that is the “whole person”. Under Occupational Health and Safetylegislation WAyou are obliged to provide:
• - safe premises
• - safe machinery and materials
• - safe systems of work
• - information, instruction, training and supervision
• - a suitable working environment and facilities.
If you don't comply with these legal requirements you can be prosecuted and fined.One of the most important aspects of Occupational Health & Safety WAmanagement is to have records to provide evidence of what you do to ensure a safe working environment. Having a log of all training provided to staff, no matter how small, can be invaluable if you need prove that your staff has been trained. This does not have to be complicated; it can just be a notebook with the heading of the training, brief explanation of the contents, where it was held, when was it held and who attended.Even better if you can get a signature from those attending to prove they attended.
Environmental monitoring can be defined as the systematic sampling of air, water, soil, and biota in order to observe and study the environment, as well as to derive knowledge from this process. Monitoring can be conducted for a number of purposes, including to establish environmental “baselines, trends, and cumulative effects” to test environmental modeling processes, to educate the public about environmental conditions, to inform policy design and decision-making, to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, to assess the effects of anthropogenic influences, or to conduct an inventory of natural resources.
Environmental monitoring programs can vary significantly in the scale of their spatial and temporal boundaries. For example, an endangered fish in a small stream and the viability of its short-term fate will require monitoring on short and localized temporal and spatial scales, while the management of natural resources that span a nation will require monitoring programs that are much broader in scale . Monitoring programs can vary significantly in scope, ranging from community based monitoring on a local scale, to large-scale collaborative global monitoring programs such as those focused on climate change.
Environmental monitoring is a necessary component of environmental science and policy design. Despite criticisms that environmental monitoring can be ineffective and costly when programs are poorly planned, well-planned monitoring programs cost little in comparison to the resources that can be protected and the policy design that can be informed. Successes and failures of monitoring programs in the preceding decades have been thoroughly analyzed by the scientific community, and practical solutions for addressing the standard challenges of monitoring programs are readily available in the scientific literature. In order to achieve valuable results from environmental monitoring activities, it is necessary to adhere to sampling processes that are supported by the traditional scientific method and any effective monitoring program must include focused and relevant questions, appropriate research designs, high quality data collection and management, and careful analysis and interpretation of the results.
• - safe premises
• - safe machinery and materials
• - safe systems of work
• - information, instruction, training and supervision
• - a suitable working environment and facilities.
If you don't comply with these legal requirements you can be prosecuted and fined.One of the most important aspects of Occupational Health & Safety WAmanagement is to have records to provide evidence of what you do to ensure a safe working environment. Having a log of all training provided to staff, no matter how small, can be invaluable if you need prove that your staff has been trained. This does not have to be complicated; it can just be a notebook with the heading of the training, brief explanation of the contents, where it was held, when was it held and who attended.Even better if you can get a signature from those attending to prove they attended.
Environmental monitoring can be defined as the systematic sampling of air, water, soil, and biota in order to observe and study the environment, as well as to derive knowledge from this process. Monitoring can be conducted for a number of purposes, including to establish environmental “baselines, trends, and cumulative effects” to test environmental modeling processes, to educate the public about environmental conditions, to inform policy design and decision-making, to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, to assess the effects of anthropogenic influences, or to conduct an inventory of natural resources.
Environmental monitoring programs can vary significantly in the scale of their spatial and temporal boundaries. For example, an endangered fish in a small stream and the viability of its short-term fate will require monitoring on short and localized temporal and spatial scales, while the management of natural resources that span a nation will require monitoring programs that are much broader in scale . Monitoring programs can vary significantly in scope, ranging from community based monitoring on a local scale, to large-scale collaborative global monitoring programs such as those focused on climate change.
Environmental monitoring is a necessary component of environmental science and policy design. Despite criticisms that environmental monitoring can be ineffective and costly when programs are poorly planned, well-planned monitoring programs cost little in comparison to the resources that can be protected and the policy design that can be informed. Successes and failures of monitoring programs in the preceding decades have been thoroughly analyzed by the scientific community, and practical solutions for addressing the standard challenges of monitoring programs are readily available in the scientific literature. In order to achieve valuable results from environmental monitoring activities, it is necessary to adhere to sampling processes that are supported by the traditional scientific method and any effective monitoring program must include focused and relevant questions, appropriate research designs, high quality data collection and management, and careful analysis and interpretation of the results.
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