Employee well-being
Physical Health: employee’s overall health, energy, and stamina.
Psychological Health: employee’s stress, anxiety, intrinsic satisfaction, sense of accomplishment, optimism, confidence, control, and safety issues.
Social Health: Work relationship, the balance in work and personal life, equity, fairness, respect, and social connectedness.
Safety vs Health
Safety: the potential of accidents and injuries that occur within the workplace
Health is related to illness
Causes of accidents
- unsafe employee behavior
- unsafe work environment
- acts of nature
Occupational Health Hazards
- Physical conditions: such as noice, heat, vibration , and radiation
- Chemicals: such as dusts, poisonous fumes, gases, toxic metals, and carcinogens
- Biological Organisms: bacteria, fungi, and insects
- physical or psychological stress
OSHA occupational health hazards
Health and Safety Programs
- Organizational Commitment and Management Support
- Prevention Focus
- Prompt Response
- Supervisory Role
- Workplace Violence
a. violence acts, including physical assaults and threats of assault, directed toward persons at work or on duty.
b. Monitoring Employee Behavior
c. Preventative Actions
Stress and Burnout
stress: a response to any demand made on the body which requires readjustment. one-third of people in the US report experiencing extreme levels of stress.
-magaging stress: awareness and action
-act to change attitudes
1. living in the present
2.learn to relax
3.learn to laugh
4.be a positive person
Burnout is a state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion cause by excessive and prolonged stress
Employee Wellness Programs
EAP employee assistant programs
alcohol abuse
drug abuse
