WEB-BASED OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (OSH)

Based on my understanding, occupational safety and health (OSH) is about concerned with preserving and protecting human and facility resources in the workplace. Every organization should practice and promote OSH to the employees either in small or big organization. OSH includes biological safety, chemical safety, physical safety, fire preparation and environmental protection at the workplace.

Web-based occupational safety and health (OSH) is application or services that resident on a server that is accessible. By this application, the employer and employees easy to access to record anything or accidents that happens at the workplace and the organization not use paper-based anymore.

From what that I have learned, the web-based occupational safety and health (OSH) have given positive and negative effects to the organization and the employees. The positive effects are process becomes systematic and the organization able do the regular reviews. First, the process becomes systematic because the information entry of employees become easy and fast. For instance are training undergone, medical claims and others.

Second, the organization able to do the regular reviews of the information and events that happens in the organization. The web-based occupational safety and health helps the organization get the information is short time. The employer easy to know about the employees and also the employer will give attention to the employees. Therefore, the employees will able to work in the comfortable and good environment also able to achieve the organization’s objectives. 

 While, the negative effects of the web-based occupational safety and health (OSH) are poor quality system and complicated for small organization to implement the system. The poor quality system effect is means that the system is not friendly users. This is because the system is complicated for those who do not have the skill and knowledge about the system. So, they will found that the system is difficult to handle and will not use the system anymore. The Internet connection is important because they need access the system by online through the World Wide Web channel.

Other than that, the negative effect is complicated for small organization to implement the system. This is because the small organization needs to use expert to handle the system. This small organization not affordable to hired the expert in that area. The small organization faced the problem of less of workforce.

       In the conclusion, web-based occupational safety and health is important to every organization for protect the employees.

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Reference:

Deb, T. (2006). Strategic Approach to Human Resource Management: Concepts, Tools and Application. ATLANTIC Publishing.

http://staff.iium.edu.my/aniliza/Niosh(1).pdf