Effective Employee Training And Safety Management Procedures

Analyzing Employee Development

Question:

Discuss about the Work, Health and Safety Assessment for Psychiatry.

A company has to pay attention to surveys that portray the learning requirements in the teams and properly analyze the need for arranging training programs. Depending on the industry a company is dealing with, the staff should be scrutinized based on the knowledge they have about the working principles of the industry (Barger et al., 2015). Various assessment procedures can be adapted to figure out the needs of the staff and arrange training programs accordingly.

The progress of the training programs arranged for the benefit of the staff in a company can be checked with surveys and meetings. Feedbacks can be taken to keep track of the status of the training. Monitoring of the training can be done with the help of performance assessment at the end of training modules. These assessment results can be used to verify the learning curves of the staff and can discover more aspects where training may be required. These assessments will indicate how the employees are adapting to the working principles of the company.

Depending on the working model of a certain company, training methods can be improvised. In technology industry, a company can conduct training programs to analyze the progress of its employees. The record keeping of the training can be done in the following form:

• New and the existing employees will go through the arranged training programs.
• Specific training will be given to the staff according to the job requirements.
• The training can be of two-three months.
• The staff will be trained in modules; each covering specific areas.
• At the end of each module which can be weekly or monthly, an assessment will be performed to test the learning curve of the employees.
• The learning curve will be tested on the basis of productivity, like how much progress has an employee achieved on a particular project, whether the employee has met the goals of the training modules, the quality of an employee’s performance and how much an employee is apt in adapting to the required skillset demanded by the company.

This is a feedback response focusing on the discussion with a key personnel regarding training needs in a company – Discussing the training matters with the personnel, it is a lucid point that training is an inevitable aspect of a company (Haas & Yorio, 2016). Training helps employees evolve with the changing demands of a company. Training programs make employees enhanced and more confident in their abilities and hence, multiple training programs are there in the concerned company where even theoretical approach are taken to cover the essentials of company requirements. Employees are practically training to meet the criteria of specific jobs, the training also deals with multiple psychological needs of the staff (Yorio, Willmer & Moore, 2015). It ensures understanding among employees, relationship development and with the help of training facilities, a company can develop employees in a more structured fashion which has always proved to be beneficial for a company.

Three types of emergencies that require control procedures by law are release of toxic gas, explosion or fire, office violence.

There should emergency alarms warning people about a specific crisis only to make people gather themselves to safeguard their conditions. There should be a plan stating the steps to be taken in an emergency (Zhang et al., 2014). The development of the plan should be based on a thorough analysis and wide probability of the emergency. Depending on the emergencies which include the building set on fire and gas leak, measures should be taken accordingly, as in this case evacuation is necessary (Cooklin et al., 2015). Under any circumstances of emergency, there should be procedures that provide efficient planning in helping the disabled people. Employees should be trained to determine on their own the possible need for evacuation depending on the type of emergency. There should be separate control measures which include taking legal actions when office violence is spotted. There should be rules for penalizing the staff for behaving unprofessionally. Developing preventive measures to avoid such emergencies should adapt such facilities that will provide unethical behavior no option. The control procedures that are adapted in the companies can be evaluated by regularly verifying the safety measures, scrutinize every possibility of fatal emergency. There should be penalizing rules and regulatory terms to keep an ethical, professional environment in the company.

Monitoring Employee Training

There can be unfortunate incidents at the workplace requiring immediate attention and resolution. There are ways to document an incident of injury at the workplace. Evaluation of the scene needs to be performed and document the scene accordingly (Pope, MacDonald & Orr, 2015). Getting to the site of the accident is most important, identification of the incident is necessary with the help of witnesses, if there are any photos taken of the incident then they are to be examined. The evidence found supporting the incident will have to be safeguarded and proper establishment is required. Investigation will include multiple questions to produce a clear view of the intensity of the injurious incident.

To devise proper injury management, a specific strategy is needed to cover all the levels of the injury management issues. First and foremost, the issues should be raised at the managerial level to expect effective response and this can cause in efficient management for the injured staff. To examine the management strategies, surveys can be performed to determine the requirements of the injured staff. There should be a cultural development of interventions that will help in reporting the incidents. There has to be a team that can help in establishing effective communication for the benefit of the injured staff.

The injury management can be done by means of several sets of forms filled up by the staff and the management supervisors. To report an injury issue, employees need to record what type of incident is to be reported, identification of the employees should be mentioned and the respective supervisor. Questions will be given to extract information regarding the incident. The supervisor will be given a form to examine the status of the reported incident. Recommendations taken should be mentioned in the form (Kunyk et al., 2016). There will be a form focusing on the investigation of the incident which will provide a specialized and descriptive version of the incident.

Work Health and Safety Management System (WHSMS) provides a broad focus on the improvement of the safety regulations at workplaces (Phillips & Miltner, 2015). It helps in evolving the existing management strategy for the benefit of the employees and also it solidifies the corporate culture. The working principle of WHSMS includes commitment of the top management, implementation of the health and safety regulations, proper investigation and reporting, medical aid availability, training programs to develop injury management strategies etc. There are specific set of teams who will be responsible in evaluating the WHSMS. There are senior management teams who will inspect the proceedings of WHSMS and also a separate team can handle in physical evaluation of the working principles of WHSMS (Slemon, Jenkins & Bungay, 2017).

Emergency Procedures and Controls

There are instructors in the company who govern the WHS management training procedures. The WHS management evaluation is a continuous process and it should be maintained regularly or arranged at a particular interval (Schindeler, & Ransley, 2014). There must be a constant process reviewing the actions taken by the company to implement WHSMS. An assessment will be conducted every month to validate the safety of the employees.

The WHSMS procedures available in the company is quite effective as a thorough inspection is performed in every month. Several training programs are undertaken to evaluate the status of the staff and the efficiency of the WHSMS. The staff have always been able to report their safety issues in time without facing glitches in the management system and with full support of higher management authorities, the procedure has been extremely smooth as gathered from the employees. Positive feedbacks are reported regarding the effectiveness of the various training programs; these programs have indeed served well as employees are satisfied with the way their health and safety issues are kept track of. Monthly meetings will be arranged to check whether the existing evaluation parameters are effective or not. These meeting will verify the improvisation and development required; to specify the areas of development, several surveys are to be performed to take feedbacks from the staff. These feedbacks will help in implementing more effective management systems.

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