Workers Compensation Laws and The Fire Service

CONCEPTS BEHIND WORKERS COMPENSATION LAWS

Policies under health and safety programs are made to protect employees or any other person who may be associated with the company . Occupational health programs deals with the reaction of workers to their working environment and with the prevention of ill health arising from working conditions and the circumstances (L .P .A Aluchio ,1998

There are two elements programs occupational medicine which is a specialized branch of preventive medicine which is concerned with diagnosis and the consequent assessment of health hazards and the stresses .Occupational

hygiene is a province ' of chemist and engineer who are engaged in the measurement and physical control of environmental hazards . Safety programs are mainly concerned with the prevention of the accidents and minimization of losses and damages to persons and property

Industrial diseases and accidents are as a result of this the management must trace the root cause of each one of these factors that cause accidents . Some of the factors are related to poor management that is poor leadership from the top , inadequate attention to the design of health and safety system or failure by the management to identify and analyze health and safety problems within the organization . Another major factor is lack of adequate training on education or lack of management of health and safety at work

Most important functions of health and safety programs is to identify potential hazards and then to do something about , that is , provides safety facilities immediate remedial measures should be taken

This is possible due to the following : if there is a comprehensive and attentive system for reporting back of accidents if there 's adequate accidents records and statistics if there 's availability of proper procedures for carrying out . Safety cheeks , inspection and investigation if managers pay proper attention to health and safety matters health and safety policies of an organization must continuously check to ensure that all is well and remedial action is taken when necessary managers /supervisors must be directly accountable for the specific areas under their controls . All workers must be properly educated on the matters of health and safety

Essential elements of health and safety programs are : analysis of health and safety program must be based on the fact of individual organization as they exist . These factors are based on discussion with managers and supervisors , workshop stewards , factory inspectors as well as insurance development of policies , organization procedures and training system implementation of program for it to be implemented properly there is need to train evaluation of safety programs for the necessary feedback The policies concerning health and safety programs consist of general policy statement which is a declaration by the management of their intention to safeguard the health and safety of the employees . It consists poor fundamental points safety of employees and public is of paramount importance safety will take procedure over expediency no efforts will be spared in involving everybody in the development and implementation of health and safety procedures and the health and safety legislation...