Including workplace hygiene in the HR curriculum should be mandatory. An HR manager is ultimately employed for looking after his/her employees and maintaining employee health is a part of that module. A hygienic workplace ensures employee health and a healthy staff is required for enriching the overall performance levels. The more health issues more will be the number of absenteeism thus decreasing the staff and overall performance.
It is also the duty of the employee to take care of self hygiene along with the workplace hygiene. One should take utmost caution with personal appearance. If an illness prevails one should report that to the manager and ensure that it does not affect the co-employees. An unhygienic ground breeds infectious diseases thus aggravating health related concerns.
When an employee spends more than half of his/her day at the workplace, it is very important to maintain conditions that help him/her perform better. The drinking water, kitchen, toilets, cafeteria, etc are the areas where pathogens reside hence they should be sanitized and cleaned regularly.
Any hazardous material if found should be reported to senior. Fire extinguishers should be present in case of an emergency. The employee should be equipped with skills to combat a state of emergency.
-Arti Bakshi
Human Resource, Human Resource Magazine, HR Magazine, HR Writeups, HR Trivia
From India, Ahmadabad
It is also the duty of the employee to take care of self hygiene along with the workplace hygiene. One should take utmost caution with personal appearance. If an illness prevails one should report that to the manager and ensure that it does not affect the co-employees. An unhygienic ground breeds infectious diseases thus aggravating health related concerns.
When an employee spends more than half of his/her day at the workplace, it is very important to maintain conditions that help him/her perform better. The drinking water, kitchen, toilets, cafeteria, etc are the areas where pathogens reside hence they should be sanitized and cleaned regularly.
Any hazardous material if found should be reported to senior. Fire extinguishers should be present in case of an emergency. The employee should be equipped with skills to combat a state of emergency.
-Arti Bakshi
Human Resource, Human Resource Magazine, HR Magazine, HR Writeups, HR Trivia
From India, Ahmadabad
Dear Arti Bakshi,
“Industrial hygiene is that branch of art and science devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in or from the workplace, that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers
Personal Hygiene:
Sanitary health habits that include keeping the body, hair, teeth clean, wearing clean clothes and washing hands and body regularly especially when handling food and drinks.
Industrial Hygiene is only a part of occupational health.
Fire protection, prevention, control and extinguishmenr, emergecy planning and preparedness, accident prevention etc are part of occupational safety.
Occupational Safety, Health and environment are specialization and HSE personnel are supposed to take care of it.
I am doubt whether HR personnel are equipped with that kind of HSE specalization.
It will be better if HSE personnel are assigned to do the job.
Regards,
Ksava Pillai
From India, Kollam
252“Industrial hygiene is that branch of art and science devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in or from the workplace, that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers
Personal Hygiene:
Sanitary health habits that include keeping the body, hair, teeth clean, wearing clean clothes and washing hands and body regularly especially when handling food and drinks.
Industrial Hygiene is only a part of occupational health.
Fire protection, prevention, control and extinguishmenr, emergecy planning and preparedness, accident prevention etc are part of occupational safety.
Occupational Safety, Health and environment are specialization and HSE personnel are supposed to take care of it.
I am doubt whether HR personnel are equipped with that kind of HSE specalization.
It will be better if HSE personnel are assigned to do the job.
Regards,
Ksava Pillai
From India, Kollam
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