BS/FO/76

Institute Of Personnel Management

Sri Lanka
CASE STUDY COVER PAGE

NAME OF THE PROGRAMME: PQHRM

TOPICOFTHECASESTUDY : Strategic HRM
MODULE NUMBER : 10
NAME OF THE LECTURER : Mr.Dilon Gomez.

Index Number PQHRM T/PQ/119/124/04

Contact Number 07140938791
E-mail Irosha990@gmail.com
Date of the Examination 19.03.2017
Date of Submission 25.03.2017

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wledgement

I would like to convey my gratitude to Mr.Ranga Liyanage for delivering the replete
knowledge on industrial Relations and the IPM providing a better learning environment.
At the same time I aggrade the people who helped me to succeed this case study.

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 When studying the Hantana Tea Factory health and safety issues
it is very vital that to ensure health and safety is management effectively.

It requires employer to bring to his attention any issues or concerns that

relate to the health and safety of all employees as well as the social.

Consultation helps promote a positive health and safety culture and ensure
that everyone is giving an opportunity to influence health and safety policies
procedures.

Without cooperation between employers and employees, the chance of

managing health and safety effectively are reduced.

Conducting employee consultation

Have to set formal arrangements and should arrange to share all the
information freely. And

1. Instrument testing

Have to test all the equipment using b the factory. Portable

electrical equipment, fixed electrical equipment, machineries

2. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments.

This is a process where we can identify the hazard and risk in

the work place or the activity. We have to collect the information and
making the judgement against the standards. By identifying all the
hazards that are present at the site and prioritizing those according to
their risk level provide the guideline for action planning.

Under this we have to follow below mentioned steps,

a. Identify the hazards,

b. Deeside who might be harmed and how.
c. Evaluate the risk.
d. Evaluate the control method.
e. Record the findings and implement them
f. Review the assessment and revise if necessary

3. Gathering Information.
a. Talk to people.
b. Work place inspection.
c. Consultation
d. Refer to past accident records.
e. Manufacturers information.
f. Policy and procedures.

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The risk identification under emergency situations are managed by an
Emergency Response Plan(ERP) which identify the potential for and responses
to

In the risk assessment have to identify the risks that are present in the work
place but to identify them and then to

1. Eliminate
2. Control
3. Avoid
4. Transfer
5. Accept the risk

4. Safety consultant designated to the work will perform a

preliminary audit a month into the system being operation in
order to identify any potential problems with the system prior
to the real audit.
5. Develop a safety culture.
Safety culture consist of shared beliefs ,practices and attitudes that
exisits at an establishment.
a. Management and employee norms, assumptions and beliefs
b. Management and employee attitude
c. Values, myths, stories.
d. Policies and procedures.
e. Supervisor priorities, responsibilities and accountability
f. Production and bottom line pressure vs quality issues
g. Action or lack of action to correct unsafe behaviors
h. Employee training and motivation

In a strong safety culture everyone fells responsible for safety and pursues
it on daily basis.

Creating a safety culture takes time. A series of continuous process

improvement steps can be followed to create a safety culture.

Actions to create safety culture.

1. CEO and top management to be championing the initiative.

2. Provide safe plant and equipment.
3. Provide information and training
4. Provide necessary supervision
5. Consult employees
6. Get employee involved action committee.

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 7. Conduct safety audit and risk assessment
8. Reward good practices.
9. Make safety a part of everyday operations

Should implement a organizational health and safety policy which includes,

organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices,
procedures, processes and resources for developing and achieving reviewing
and maintain the organizations OHS policy.

Hazard identification

At the work environment hazards can arise different aspects.

Equipment, materials, chemical

Work task, how they perform
Emergencies.

Risk Assessment

Risk should be prioritized to decide what needs attention first.

Can quantify the likelihood and severity.

Implement a system to incident management.

Accident prevention
o Primary prevention Removal of circumstances causing injury.
o Secondary prevention Reduce severity of injury should an
accident occur.
o Tertiary prevention optimal treatment and rehabilitation
Accident reporting
o Document the event
o To meet the legal requirement
o To be transparent
o As a motivational tool
o As a company requirement.

Accident investigation

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 o Find out the root cause and contributory factors.
o To analyze causes and take corrective actions
o To analyze trends and to prevent
o Other requirements insurance
Collect facts about what happened.
Develop sequence of event
Determine the causes.
Corrective action plan and preventive action.

6. Effectively manage risk at work place.

Eliminate the hazards completely

Substitute with something less hazard
Engineering control
Administration control
Personal protective equipment

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 7. Legal provision
If liable to fall from a height of more than six feet
o Secure foot holds and hand hold should be provided
o Fencing or ensure a safety.
E.g.; should cover the mezzanine floor

Protection from poisonous substances.

o Entry requirements
o Strictly maintain the security of the poisons and the
employees.
Eg; Higly protect and control the entrance of poison store
area.

Safety

o Prevent falling
o Working at height
o Isolation

External Work Environment

Not only the internal factors that affect to the work of an organization, but the external
factors affect too.

External Environment contains the conditions, entities, event and factors which are at
outside of the work buildings, offices etc.

Factors affecting to external work environment

Political factors
Environmental factors
Social factors
Technological factors
Economic factors

Legal factors

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Why should we consult employee on health and safety

Benifits
Increase productivity

Business with good work force involvement in health and safety tend to have better
productivity

Improvement in overall efficiency.

Higher level of work force motivation.

Can result in
A healthier and safer work place

Better decision about health and safety

A stronger commitment to implement decision or action

Greater co operation and trust

There is no cost for a safetyworks consultation.The only obligation of employer is to corrct in a

timely manner any serious job safety or health hazards .

WE RECOGNISE;

Safety hazards

Reduce or eliminate hazards

Develop or improve a safety program

Comply with legal provisions

Identify training needs. .

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