web folio 2: WEB BASED OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Every organization must emphasize the safety and health for their employees in order to produce safely and healthy environment in the workplace. So, web-based occupational safety and health can be facilitated the organization to avoid any employees involved with accidents or illness during working hours especially to those who related with dangerous areas such as construction, chemical company or others.

            There are many functions of web-based OSH is firstly, employer can review records and reports of workplace deaths, injuries and illnesses. They just click to review all of the recordkeeping in the web-based compare to review the records of accidents one-by-one by using paper-based (form). They will know the statistics number of accidents frequently happen to the employees. They can evaluate the successful of safety and health program in their organization based on that statistics. From that information, employers are easier to determine the causes of the accidents and develop procedures to avoid it. They can detect potential risks or hazards to warning sign to those areas.

Secondly, web-based OSH also includes the records of safety and health training to the employees. Each of employers and employees must compulsory attend this training program to know how to protect themselves from hazards.  This is to make sure that employees know how to handle the materials and equipment safely and also how to prevent hazards. Based on the web-based, employers can detect to who those employees that still not attend safety and health training program especially for new employees and to employees who are posting to new jobs, because they are still new to learn how to control their jobs and likely to get injured. They also can review the number of frequently to send and conduct that training to their employees. 

Third, web-based OSH also contains workers compensations claims to those who involved in the accidents. Employees can review their medical records on how much of total claims that they will get based on their medical insurance and claims.

Other than that, web-based OSH consist numbers of inspections and audits that the organization frequently conduct inspection in the site to make sure that full compliance with organization safety policy and regulations in the workplace. Besides that, employees also can checklist their self-inspection in the web-based. It is because employees know where areas are probably hazards to them and how to behave and control it. This checklist covered several areas or scopes in the workplace which is lighting, electricity, heating, machinery, hand and power tools, chemical, fire prevention, transportation, first-aid programs and others.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2005). Small Business Safety and Health Management Series. United States.

Sai On Cheung, K. K. (2004). Web-based safety and health monitoring system for construction management. Journal of Safety Research, 159-170.