EVALUATION OF HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMMES ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF UASIN GISHU DISTRICT HOSPITAL
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Health and safety policies and programmes are concern with protecting employees and other people affected by what company produces and does against the hazards arising from their employment or their links with the company. Safety programmes deals with the prevention of accidents and with minimizing the resulting loss and damage to persons and property. They relate more to systems of work than the working environment, but both health and safety programmes are concern with protection against hazards, and their aims and methods are inter-linked(Armstrong, 2009).The purpose of this study was to determine the impacts of employees’ health and safety on the performance of the organization at Uasin Gishu District Hospital. The overall objective of the study was to establish policies of health and safety programmes in Uasin Gishu District Hospital, to determine effects of health and safety programmers that have been introduced in Uasin Gishu District Hospital, to find out the contributions of health and safety in competitiveness in Uasin Gishu District Hospital and to determine challenges encountered when in implementing of health and safety. The study adopted a case study research design. A sample size of 45 respondents was selected from accessible target of 90 employees. The study used simple random sampling design. Data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed, presented in form of frequency distribution. It was also necessary to find out the organization policies concerning health & safety programme inspections and trainings. The finding of this research helped in restructuring of the organizational policies of employee’s performance by evaluating the extent to which health and safety facilitate employees’ productivity. The study provided an insight into human resource managers who were able to communicate to the employees on health and safety programmes. The policy makers should come up with new policies pertaining to health and safety. It came out clearly that to have a comprehensive occupational health and safety it extends beyond the security for employees and employers to third parties or other stakeholders. The following recommendations were made based on the findings of the study: Education and Training: Management of the hospital should organize regular training, workshops, seminars on health and safety for staff, publish materials on safety and many other steps to inculcate safety consciousness in the minds of workers. Employees should be made to understand that safety and health practices are the responsibility of both management and staffs and this will go a long way to make the work area safe. Management should provide and maintain at the workplace, adequate plant and system of work that are safe and without risk to health. Workers should be given enough insight of the risk and dangers inherent in their work at the work places. Through education some of these accidents could be minimized if not eradicated entirely. Jobs can also be designed in such a way as to remove all inherent potential dangers to make the work safe for employees.
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