Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• Aim of the Project
• To promote good health practices within business
  and improve the quality of life, enabling a
  healthy and safe environment through improving
  health and safety in the workplace.
• Enhance the competitiveness of business by
  reducing the cost implications through
  absenteeism and reducing downtime.

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• WISE is designed to cover the following areas
• Smoking
• Musculoskeletal issues
• Stress
• Respiratory Disease
• Noise Induced Hearing Loss
• Diet
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Improved Physical Activity

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• Perceived advantages to the employee
• Improved Health
• Happier
• Content
• Motivated

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• Advantages to the Company
• Reduced Smoke Breaks
• Reduced Absenteeism
• Improved Productivity
• Better Motivation
• Content Workforce

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• Disadvantages
• Employees Time Required
• Costs of Required Training

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• Growing awareness of the extent of drug abuse
• Focus on link with crime, disorder
• Prevalent in industry
• Affect performance lead to injury
• Growing awareness of drug testing

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• HOW SHOULD INDUSTRY TACKLE THE PROBLEM
• Recognise the signs
• Testing ?
• Policy

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• RECOGNISE THE SIGNS
• Sudden mood changes
• Unusual irritability or aggression
• A tendency to become confused
• Abnormal swings in concentration and energy
• Impaired job performance
• Poor time keeping
• Increased short-term sickness absence
• A deterioration in relationships
• Dishonesty and theft

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• DRUG TESTING
• Pre-employment
• Routine medicals
• Mandatory random testing
• Post accident testing
• For cause testing
• Post treatment or follow up testing
• Voluntary testing

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Workplace Initiatives for a Safer Environment

• DRUG POLICY
• Help protect and promote health,safety and
  welfare
• Reduce accident rates
• Identify a drug problem at an early stage
• Advise on treatment and help
• Support recovery and help reintegration.