Safety & Health in an Organization

Employee safety and efficiency are directly related to each other. Safety in an organization helps to prevent occurrences of accidents and thereby improves and ensures free flow of work. It helps to improve the morale and the productivity of employees. It also helps the employees to contribute effectively towards teamwork. Safety in an organization ensures that the employee can concentrate on their work with confidence and without fear. Industrial accidents are occurrences which interrupts the orderly progress of the work in an industrial establishment. It is an unexpected event. This is a personal injury that occurs to an employee which arises out of the employment or in course of employment. There are various causes for accidents in an organization such as job related causes, unsafe conditions, work shifts the environment of the work place etc. it is found through researches that it is often young and untrained workers who are more prone to accidents. It is the responsibility of the management, plant manager, and safety officer to see to it that there is always a safe working condition that is prevailing in an organization. Every organization should formulate a safety policy for the safety of employees.