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Risk Aversion Relating to Health and Safety in a Business Environment



Risk Aversion Relating to Health and Safety in a Business Environment

Introduction

Health and safety in business is a broad concept and covers many specialized fields. The area, covered by the concept of Health & Safety, is extremely extensive when the various industries have been taken into account, for each business sector has health and safety issues. To practice health and safety standards in business, each business has to achieve some goals, in which employer's collaboration and participation are essential. Major role is to protect the workforce, or employees. However, depending on the company, they will be working to ensure that visitors, customers, clients, and even members of the public are not put at risk by anything the company does, produces, sells, hires out, builds, constructs, etc. If any business perform such job well and no one is injured then by default they will have also protected the company, its owners, directors and managers from any legal action that might have resulted in any damage that might otherwise have occurred.

Background of the Study

The paper encompassed the health and safety in the business environment. This research consists of all the tools and instruments that people could use, regarding the improvement and extension of health and safety in the business environment that can facilitate the organizations to deal with the safety and health issues in businesses.

Often, less attention is paid to the problems of business health to job security because it is usually more difficult to resolve those. However, when addressing the issue of health, also addresses the security, because, by definition, a healthy workplace is also a safe workplace. Instead, it may not be true in reverse, as a considered safe workplace is not necessarily also a healthy workplace. The crucial thing is to be addressed in every business health and safety issues.

Process Technology and Health and Safety Risks in a Business Environment

The technological advancement in the work place has brought blessings for the companies, but at the same time, they have affected the work environment and created health/safety issues for employees. This paper discusses the physical work setting of a company and safety and health issues related to the work setting. Some of the factors associated with the physical setting are mentioned as follows.

Thermo hygrometer Conditions

They are physical, environmental conditions of temperature, humidity and ventilation, in which an employee develops work. All kinds of physical work in the body generate heat. The human has a self-regulating system to maintain a steady temperature around 37 °C. Thermal comfort depends on the heat produced by the body and exchanges between it and the environment. The variables that are considered globally in this regard are as follows

Air temperature.

Humidity.

Temperature walls and objects.

Air velocity.

Physical activity.

The temperature and humidity conditions are environmental, physical conditions of temperature, humidity and ventilation, in which we develop our work. Bad temperature and humidity can cause adverse health effects, which vary according to individual characteristics and their ability to ...