Why Occupational Health and Safety has become such an important part of the workplace?

Question

Where can I find this kind of information relating to Queensland Education

Answer 1

I'm not sure about Queensland, but OHS is about cost savings for businesses first, humanitarian reasons second.

For example, I came across this factoid once:

the average chemical industry lost $26 million in compensation and other costs which is 3.6% of DuPont’s profits which would require generating $500 million more in sales (based on 5.5% net return on assets)--not an easy task!

Here's another:

Repetitive Stress Injuries (e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome) represent 62% all North American WC claims and results in nearly $15-20 billion in lost work time and Workers Compensation claims each year, according to OSHA/USA.

Another view regards the increasing amount of workplace violence and liability employers face if such safety/security measures are ignored.

In 1993 the National Safe Workplace Institute released a study showing that workplace violence costs $4.2 billion each year, estimating over 111,000 violent incidents. But employee behavior on the job is not the only behavior that costs businesses money. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, domestic violence causes employees to miss over 175,000 days of paid work annually—in fact, 66% of Fortune 500 senior executives said that the financial performance of their companies would benefit from addressing employee domestic violence. (See source)

Then you have the negative PR when companies experience a safety incident.

Bottom line: proactive OHS is good for business!

Answer 2

Real life is always a disappointment. No matter how carefully one plans, there are always unanticipated surprises as well as irrelevant distractions from the main action in a literal narrative. A protestor or a bully appears. The mayor's hat falls off and rolls under the stage. The spring on the trap gets stuck. It rains in the middle of the presentation. King Lear forgets his line. A story offers a chance to get it right, to make the meaning clear, to show how it should go. Stories, even "bad examples", make better moral illustrations than step-by-step instructions. You can show motivations and consequences with a story. Unfortunately, some people get so caught up with the story telling that they value it over the message they mean to convey. The story becomes more important than its meaning and it is no longer allowed to change and grow in response to the changing world of its listeners. Then it becomes myth. The message is still useful, but not quite relevant to the times. The characters and the details become iconic heroes rather than models of behavior. Their specific acts are more important than their intentions and they become meaningless for our own lives, mere "history". Stories are most useful when they are kept fresh.

Answer 3

because it generates inome for all those little training companies that earn their money proessing 'students' through the required courses.....

ok now I say processes students because they don't actually teach them anything......

if everyone who has done an ohs related course where every student actually learnt what was supposed to be taught would toss a dollar my way...... I would still be as poor as a church mouse... if you've done your green card or first aid or confined spaces course.... you know exactly what I am talking about...

it is a shame that these really important things are not taught properly... but then .... fast money is the name of the game..

Answer 4

Occupation health and safety is very important for every business as if any company fall short from these safety policies then they can be penalized and they can be in big trouble if any accident or else occurs to workers. know more all about this from here: http://www.highvisibilitywhs.com/why-choose-us/

Answer 5

Why Is Ohs Important

Answer 6

Try Google!