Sign PPT for HR Safe

Sign PPT for HR Secure

[Music] HR basics is a series of short courses designed to highlight what you need to know about a particular human resource management topic in today's HR basics we explore employee safety and security how we keep employees from harm in the workplace workplace safety and security refers to the actions taken by the employer to prevent harm to people at work the safety and security function deals with both enterprise and employee safety and security it includes the organization's effort to prevent and mitigate loss risks to and from personnel threats to its physical assets damage to its technology and intellectual property or risks of any other kind arising from all elements surrounding the work environment workplace safety and security is only effective when programs policies and procedures achieve their stated objectives to prevent harm to people property in the environment best practices vary depending on the scope of the specific safety and security measures safety and security encompasses two overlapping areas of practice in the following discussion safety and security issues are sometimes treated separately and are sometimes combined as appropriate workplace safety is the process that seeks to eliminate or reduce risks of injury or illness to employees while the chief aim of workplace security is to protect employees from internal and external security risks so let's start with workplace safety which is the process that seeks to eliminate or reduce risks of injury or illness to employees the chief aim of workplace safety is to protect an organization's most valuable asset its people workplace safety is achieved through a variety of methods including policies procedures and specific hazard control techniques policies and procedures are devised and integrated into an organization's overall management and administrative processes they usually involve specific job tasks procedures established for working with or around equipment hazardous environments or other forms of high hazard conditions safety procedures and policies include accountability requirements to ensure that prescribed practices are followed safety professionals apply a well recognized hierarchy of measures to eliminate or control specific workplace hazards the measures are applied in part of an orderly decision-making process as follows first substitution can the existing process material or equipment be replaced with a less hazardous process material or equipment then isolation can barriers or limits be placed between people and the hazard could there be physical barriers time separation or distance next administrative controls can the hazards be effectively mitigated through specialized operating practices and finally personal protective equipment if the proceeding methods are not sufficient or feasible can personal protective equipment be provided moving on the chief aim of workplace security is to protect an organization's most valuable assets its people workplace security has gained much attention in the last several years due to an increase in workplace violence the necessity of background investigations of prospective and current employees internet and technology-based security needs threats of terrorism and an increased legal liability to organizations for not taking reasonable measures to safeguard the workplace due...