Managing Health, Safety and Well-Being
Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
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Beschreibung
To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being. Employers are responsible for providing every individual with a working environment that is safe and does not harm their physical or mental health. However, the current state of the art indicates that approaches used to promote health, safety and well-being have not had the anticipated results. At the level of the enterprise it is widely understood and accepted by all stakeholders that employers share the responsibility of promoting and managing the health of their workers. Evidence indicates that most employers put in place procedures and measures to manage workers’ health and create healthy workplaces to meet legal requirements, as a response to requests by employees, as a need to improve company image/reputation, and to improve productivity. This highlights that in addition to legal requirements, the keydrivers for companies also include the ethical and business case. While much has been written about role of legislation and the business case for promoting health, safety and well-being, not much is known about the ‘ethical case’ for promoting employment and working conditions. In this context, this book examines the potential of the link between responsible and sustainable workplace practices, human rights and worker health, safety and well-being and explores how complementary approaches can be used to promote employment and working conditions and sustainability at the organizational level. It offers a framework for aligning different approaches and perspectives to the promotion of workers’ health, safety and well-being and provides recommendations for introducing such an approach at the enterprise level.
First book on health, safety and well-being that aligns different research perspectives Interdisciplinary, using approaches from human resource management, strategic management, business ethics and sustainibility, development studies, occupational health and safety Provides a comprehensive framework to promote best business practices by linking different research areas
First book on health, safety and well-being that aligns different research perspectives Interdisciplinary, using approaches from human resource management, strategic management, business ethics and sustainibility, development studies, occupational health and safety Provides a comprehensive framework to promote best business practices by linking different research areas
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Aditya Jain
Themen in »Managing Health, Safety and Well-Being«
Business Ethics Corporate Social Responsibility Employee Health and Well-Being Occupational Health and Safety Strategic Risk Management Sustainability Work and Human Rights quality control, reliability, safety and risk
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“I would say the target audience for this book is master-level HSW students who would need to look no further to hand in an A star assignment on the topic.” (Alister Scott, Occupational Medicine, Vol. 69 (7), October, 2019)
“This book examines the potential of the link between responsible, sustainable workplace practices and human rights and workers’ health, safety and wellbeing. It explores how complementary approaches can be used to encourage excellent employment and working conditions for all at the organisational level. … This book relates solely to US safety legislation and agencies” (The RoSPA OS&H Journal, March, 2019)“This book discusses interdisciplinary and complementary perspectives of health and safety and wellbeing, while promoting more conducive workplaces. … This book is useful for students, educators,and human resources professionals and those in leadership. Anyone who manages or leads teams would find this book a great tool and resource. The authors note that managing health, safety, and wellbeing is dynamic and complex and therefore takes interdisciplinary approaches to solve these issues.” (Natasha Lukasiewich, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2018)
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