Web Based Occupational Safety and Health

What is occupational safety and health (OSH)? From my reading, OSH is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The purposes of these programs include fostering a safe and healthy work environment. OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment.

By using the web based occupational safety and health in the work place, can give more useful information for both employees and employers. Through this web site, the employee can easily access and get the important information. Their functions include promoting safety and health in the community, education and training, consultancy services, research, strategies development and information dissemination.

Here are the examples of situation that occur when the organization implement this new technology replace for the traditional method. Automatic OSH reporting will be supported by warning systems within the HRIS to ensure all staff has updated their OSH training and specific to their role. Organizations with sophisticated systems are now using these capabilities to regularly gauge employees’ OSH knowledge base on online test provided through the ESS portal. Those who fail the test, which pops up on their screen when they switch on their computer at the start of a shift, automatically receive notice of the need to complete an online module covering the topics failed. Their manager will be informed of the results of the initial test and any follow-up tests required. The supervisor will also be alerted to the need for the employee to undertake additional training if any modules are not successfully completed.

In addition, web-based information system can help in producing the security reports to the other units of the organization either in the global or local. For organizations that have a transnational network, web base OSH is the most effective medium to disseminating information. This is because when the headquarters of the organization have the latest information on OSH, each unit will be notified. Similarly, if the headquarters need information or reports of OSH they only need to access to the web site.