Control over workplace safety discussed
Wherein Does Control Over Workplace Safety Belong?
Reading this interesting blog about workplace safety it
struck me, is the issue of safety an HR function? When you think about it, the
HR department may or may not be directly involved in so many aspects of product
production and distribution such that I puzzle about the limits of the Human
Resource Departmentâ’s ability to deal with safety issues. In a factory
setting, how easy is it for HR directors, sitting in the corporate offices, to
understand and then direct safety issues from the comfort of their desk. This
is a caricature of course. The online article that centers this case muses that
HR directors need to be more proactive than reactive, though ‘more proactive’
seems tautological to me; you are either are proactive or you are not – are
there degrees of proactivity? Maybe.
Evaluate the article linked below and look at each
recommendation. Don’t try to hit every recommendation as there is not enough
room to do so.
Pick two, or at most three, of the recommendations and
explain why you think the issue is vastly more complex and more difficult than
the author makes it seem. Or you may agree and expand on why the author is
actually correct.
Be very clear about the role human resource departments play
in this process. The goal here is to push the limits of the HR function and ask
ourselves when that type of department will hit its limitations in dealing with
workplace safety issues. Workplace safety is a ‘human’ issue, and one dealing
with humans as a resource. But HR is also an administrative function not
typically directly attached to the production of the product where, in safety
terms, the rubber meets the road. So please critique two or three of these
recommendations, explain what you think makes sense and what does not with an
eye towards the organizational structure.
Be sure, of course, to put this in terms of the MORAL point
of view. This is not simply a question of ‘can HR get the job done’, so much
as, does the modern corporate structure, where HR often is the center of
workplace safety policy, protect employees’ right to a safe workplace and
provide for the greater good. Keep the focus on the moral outcome of the
function.
Reading:
Role of Management in Improving Workplace Safety and Health
http://slidesandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/role-of-management-in-improving.html
Be sure to keep the focus on the moral point of view and
show why the recommendations do or do not promote the common good and respect
the right to a safe workplace.
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