Question

. Health and safety training needs analysis has not been conducted for two years, what is the factors, action to be taken, the person responsible, additional factors and KPI's ??

Answer 1

Answer:

Health and safety training is the most essential training needs that has to be provided to the management of the corporate, employees and the students of the universities. Health and safety training develops an understanding among the individuals about how to behave in the energetic situations. Various countries have the laws and regulations in their regulation acts for running a business however; very few organisations are bothered about these training needs.

Factors responsible:

1. Government audits: it becomes the responsibility of the government to appoint the individuals for conducting the audit in an organisation to check whether the company conducts the health and safety trainings. Government should take appropriate action on those companies who are not conducting the training.

2. Sometimes, because of the financial reasons, most of the company do not conduct the health and safety trainings. The company always try to save the cost required for conducting the training.

3. Sometimes, employees show the negligent attitude towards the training for health and safety.

Responsibility:

If the organisation has not appointed the health and safety manager than the organisation will be held responsible for not conducting the training and if the organisation has appointed the health and safety manager and if he/she is not conducting the training than the manager will be held responsible for the same.

Actions to be taken:

1. Government should conduct semi annual or annual audits into the company to check whether health and safety trainings have been conducted or not. Government should ask for the proofs of the training, attendance of employees in the training, training outcome and the feedback of the employees.

2. Organisation should consider this training as the most vital one and if the organisation is at cost cutting than it should club this training with the general training of the company for the employees and the executives.

3. Organisation should appoint a separate HR manager for health and safety issues of the employees.

4. Organisation should display the advisory pamphlets within the work floor of the company.

5. Government should make employees aware of their rights for the health and safety trainings to be provided to them by their company through various media.

Additional factors

Following are the factors that are needed to be taken into consideration while taking the effective health and safety measures in an organisation:

1. Management of the organisation should be committed enough towards the implementation of the health and safety measures in an organisation.

2. The company should manage its work within the stipulated time of the day and should reduce the average overtime of the workers which could be the reason of fatigue among the employee.

3. Physical and the emotional environment of the surrounding of the work floor should be energetic and enthusiastic in nature so that the employee could work happily and enthusiastically

4. Organisation should conduct fitness check up camp and should provide the general insurance to their employees.

5. Management should appreciate the employees who are always aware about the health and safety measures in an organisation and are more productive as a result of following health and safety measures in an organisation.

KPI:

KPI stands for key performance area. Health and safety KPI are used to measure the performance of the health and safety management team. It is used to determine the progress of the team by assessing whether they have met the set objectives of the organisation associated with the health and safety measures to be followed within the organisation.

Following key performance indicators that should be taken into consideration:

1. Number of accidents: it is used to measure the effectiveness of the health and safety measures implemented in an organisation. If the number of accidents are high than the health and safety measures followed by an organisation is least effective and the company needs to devise some innovative techniques to reduce the accidents in the company.

2. Lost time injury frequency rate[LTIFR]: lost time injury is the fatality or the disability or time lost from the work and it is measured as follows:

LTIFR = ( Number of lost time injuries for a particular period x 10, 00,000) / (Total hours worked in that period)

3. Lost time injury incidence rate [LTIIR]: it is the number of incidence that results in time loss away from the work and it is calculated as follows:

LTIFR = ( Number of lost time injuries for a particular period x 2, 00,000) / (Total hours worked in that period)