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Health and Safety Issues
Safety and health regulation breaches are criminal offenses in a number of jurisdictions, and may cause prosecution of the organization, employee, or executive by relevant enforcement authorities in safety and health; the guilty individual may be fined or may even suffer imprisonment. Violations incur fines based on jurisdiction; for instance, a violation of safety and health regulations in the United Kingdom can result in a fine amounting to about 20,000 pounds. Conscious and intentional violation of regulations, or serious negligence in performing one's legal duties, which endangers lives, may result in imprisonment or unlimited fines. The term "violation" denotes any conscious deviation from regulations, rules, procedures, and instructions put in place for effective and safe maintenance and operation of equipment or plant. Rule breaches may be unintentional, intentional, or accidental (Vinodkumar & Bhasi, 2010; Edwards, 2000). One question to raise here is: Are safety rules enforced in the organization consistently. This involves constant enforcement, together with consistent employee treatment. Furthermore, decision-makers review multiple mitigating factors, such as service duration, immediate apology, employee's commitment to alter his/her behavior, past disciplinary record, and risk of possible worker injury due to the safety breach. They also examine aggravating factors, such as, potential/actual injury to workers or other people in the organization, lack of remorse or admission, short service, and history/past record of such infractions. The above considerations are imperative, since imposing discipline is not a simple task, especially in unionized settings where arbitral review is required for disciplinary decisions, and…
Health and safety managers' initiatives
The foremost consideration when handling workers not showing compliance with safety and health precautions is determining whether:
1) The company possesses a disciplinary policy;
2) This policy mentions the ramifications of non-adherence to its safety rules;
3) The worker knows of the policy and has signed it;
4) There are safety procedures in place, known to all in the organization;
References
Edwards, C.A. (January 1, 2000). DISCIPLINE FOR SAFETY INFRACTIONS ... OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. Canada's Occupational Health & Safety Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.ohscanada.com/features/discipline-for-safety-infractions-or-suffer-the-consequences / on 7 March 2016
Marsh, H. W., Ludtke, O., Muthen, B., Asparouhov, T., Morin, A. J. S., Trautwein, U. & Nagengast, B. (2010). A new look at the big-five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modeling. Psychological Assessment, 22, 471-491.
Sinclair, R. R., Martin, J. E., & Sears, L. E. (2010). Labor unions and safety climate: Perceived union safety values and retail employee safety outcomes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42, 1477-1487.
Vinodkumar, M. N., & Bhasi, M. (2010). Safety management practices and safety behaviour: assessing the mediating role of safety knowledge and motivation. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42, 2082-2093.
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