Abstract
Protecting working places an important aspect in any company for health promotion. Currently the influence of employee workplaces are related to stress and health hygiene. This study is designed to examine the long-term effects of good working conditions to employees and employers if their health environment is properly maintained. The employer needs to strive for a healthy workplace by creating awareness, for job satisfaction in improving their morale at worksite.
Introduction
Bath to a healthy workplace is a practice done by employees to ensure that all employees have safety and good health at their places of work such as companies and institutional learning organizations. In many workplaces, restrooms are always. TheDepartment of Labor (DOL) ensures all employers under DOL jurisdiction to offer employees with proper sanitary and toilet facilities. Workers may not suffer any health illness provided for both men and women and the services they should use during their free time (Araujo, 2016 pg.8). These health related issues includes heart diseases, cancer, and tuberculosis.
On the other hand,Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) prohibiting employers from reacting on their employees for performing their rights under the Act such as raising a workplace safe and healthy, reporting an injury and filing an OSHA complaint (Araujo, 2016 pg.18). OSHA goal is to ensure that employers provide a safe and healthy working environment for all employees that corresponds with their gender identity. For example for a University, the management has the legal obligation to ensure a clean and safe environment for all employees visitors, students and other users within the university jurisdiction.
Findings
High productivity is achieved in an organization when all workers enjoy benefits of good health in turn reducing their likelihood of accidents and assisting them to maintain an active safe culture in the long-run business operations. An achievementis arrived at through training in-house and self –learning on good grooming and offering free guidance information on hygiene matters both internally and externally among others (Kuoppala et al., 2008 pp.161). Sirona Care and Health in the bath is another example of an enterprise that has been identified and received charter Award for the efforts in being a healthy place for work.
Health and wellbeing is a discipline in social and human life that needs to be addressed with collaborative partners and direct engagement with the government to formulate policies that will govern the organization in maintaining safety at their workplaces. Stand up desks are important to workers as it boosts their health at work by reducing back pain through adjusting the chair and lifting it safely. The employee should prevent Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) by relaxing and controlling excessive light on the computers in use at the office desk. In the article of Pender and the associates (1990, p. 325) she argues that businesses have significant influence over the lives of their staffs and customers hence they should work together as a team to promote a healthier life that will enable them to live longer after their retrenchment period. Local authorities are valuedfor activities they do in the society.Giving support and advice small local businesses in areas to dispose of off the waste materials and clean environment to conduct their operations.
Conclusion
Positive changes in the firmmake staffs benefit in their sales or service production and reducing their absence rates while on duty. Another advantage is installing a small kitchen in the workplace for use in preparing meals for the staff members making them have no doubt on food they are consuming (Maurana et al., 2007, pg. 202). Regular exercise at workplace maintains body fitness of a person reducing their depression at work that occurs due to much work. One needs to diet properly to avoid lower digestion and metabolism rate. It reduces stress and depression that a person encounters while at work and by the end of the day he feels fresh and comfortable after exercising his body. By doing exercises, different organizations have formed teams that specialize in a particular activity and competes with other companies during socials event such as sports.
Healthy eating is a building block of social justice, helps in prevention of chronic diseases such as diabetes and maintaining a physical healthy weight. Implementation of nutrition policies at the workplace is important as it increase the accessibility of healthy food choices and diets for the employee (Griffin, 2008, pg. 409). Adequate clean supply of drinking water should also be readily available in the workplace and need to be placed at a station suitable for everyone with individual drinking cups. With all these factors, therefore, employers need to offer good salary income and wages for them to eat a well-balanced diet with all the nutrients contained in it such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and minerals in average proportion.
Recommendation
Good nutrition in the company has a lot of benefits to the manager including decreased in staff recruitment and appraisal at duty. At internal meetings, leaders need to provide fruits and milk to the people in attendance as it is recommended suitable for the body before having a heavy meal. Finally by measuring a healthy weight, individuals understand the rate of their basal metabolism and the required weight for them. It is achieved by self-assessment on the current diet and decide on adjustable changes that need to be adopted for greater results on body loss and maintenance.
Good working environment for all staffs in the organization helps them have a sense of belonging and feeling to be part of the active team and helping them build healthy relationships between them and their managers in a transparent way. Administrators need to offer a spacious office with proper sitting furniture that can always be adjusted to avoid the workers from straining their backs. Quality meals should be given to these employees and given an adequate time to rest before returning to afternoon work session.
Workplace Helath Model
(Burton & World Health Organization, 2010)
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