MSC In Occupational Health Safety And Wellbeing

Research Ethics

Discuss about the MSC in Occupational Health Safety and Wellbeing.

Organization’s Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellbeing performance represent the important values in themselves. It seems, however, there are other values that provide the positive or negative impacts on the safety measures, health, and well-being at the workplace. It is defined as the science of anticipation, evaluation, recognition and the control hazards of the workplace that may threaten the employee’s health or their well-being by considering the possible influences and factors of the environment.

According to the scientific methods and literature, the attention is more paid to the values like the trust and justice. There are several questions running in the mind of every people that what are the values that are supportive of health, well-being, and safety. From several research teams, health promotion, safety and health management, and other safety cultural events were organized to measure the advancement in the occupational safety measures in the organization (Burke & Page, 2017). The most surprising statement came when the difference in the theories and practices of the occupational safety management and occupational health management is observed.

The recent scenario is all about the “prevention culture” especially in the occupational safety and health policy makers of any organization. The health and safety measures are the two parts of the coin that is reflected in the dominant which are separated in the research traditions. Trust is one of the values that are addressed in the literature on the health or psychosocial health. With the help of the interviews, group discussions and promotion, the close relationship between the health and safety measures were clearly observed. Another research method shows the core values that are set by the top management of the organization which is externally connected to the company’s website (Christie & Cole, 2017).

The occupational safety, health, and well-being in the organization are one of the most controversial issues in every industry that act like the most significant factor which helps to succeed in the competitive market. According to the author Clarke, et al, health, safety, and well-being is not everything in the life, but without it life is nothing. So the occupational safety, health, and well-being play a vital role in running a successful business. Many studies were conducted based on the productivity levels and it was observed that the general well-being is directly linked to one another (Clarke, et al., 2015).

Types of Research Ethics

In the introduction part, 5 topics have been covered. They are:

1. Research Ethics
2. Types of Data
3. Interviewing
4. Research ethics
5. Evidence-based practice

The research ethics refers to the overall methods that are used to integrate the different components of various study in a logical as well as coherent way, thereby ensuring the effective address of the problem associated with the research- it contains the blueprint for the data, analysis of the data and the measurement of the process (Christie & Cole, 2017). The research design ensures the type of design that is used in the case study instead of any other strategy. The main function of the research design is to obtain the effective address of the research problem in a logical way.

1. Descriptive:

• Case study: the case study generally involves the detailed observation of the analysis and also focuses on the contexts that are related to the study. It is different from the qualitative analysis; rather it is one type of statistical case-study data (Shorrock & Williams, 2016).
• Naturalistic observation: the method involves the detailed study of the natural environment without the influence of the external sources. Both the positive and negative aspects of the study are observed without any manipulation so that the result will be more precise.
• Survey: It is the statistical method used in every sector to derive the result through sampling, by collecting the data and using the specified procedure. Examples are like the research surveys, ethical survey and much more (Clarke, et al., 2015).

1. Correlation:

• Case-controlled study: the method can only compare two existing groups that may differ in the outcomes and are compared based on the special attribute. It has finite scope and limitation. The research technique has less information to share (Cooklin, et al., 2015).
• Observational study: it draws the inferences from the various samples where the surveyor has no control on the potential aspects.

1. Semi-experimental:

• Field-experiment: it consists of the scientific method that examines the real world aspects.
• Quasi-experiment: the study is empirical in nature and estimates the impacts of the intervention which has been randomly assigned. The technique is concerned about the control of the assignments and the usage of the experiments.

1. Experimental: it is the straight-forward approach that is obtained from the sample and has the better step for the controlled sample which contains the information from the experiments done on nature (Doorn, et al., 2016).
2. Review:

• Literature review: It includes the current knowledge about the findings and also includes the contributions that are based on both methodologies as well as on the theoretical concepts (Molamohamadi & Ismail, 2014).
• Systematic review: it collects the information from several papers and study, and critically analyzes those (Edwards, 2015).

The data that are based on the research is divided into two types:

1. Qualitative data: it expresses the data in terms of the number or quantity. The data are represented by interval, ordinal or ratio scales.
2. Qualitative data: these can’t be represented in terms of the numbers; rather they are represented in nominal scales such as socioeconomic status, religion or gender.

It is one type of the qualitative method which is usually done to a small group of people or with the individual. The process has been further classified into three types:

1. Structured: the method has the finite source and the questions were arranged beforehand which are supposed to be answered in a sequential order (Gillespie & Engel, 2015).
2. Semi-structured: it is the mixture of both structured and unstructured interview question which can be answered in any way and the ad-hoc question can add in the middle.
3. Unstructured: This process is least reliable and has no preparation for the questions beforehand. The interview is conducted in an informal way which leads to biased questions.

It involves the human subjects or the unique, logical, ethical, social and political question raised by the participants. It is especially interested in analyzing the ethical values that are raised when people are involved in the research (Jamieson, et al., 2017). Three objectives are concerned, which are:

• Broadcast the objective in order to protect the human participants
• Ensure the objective of the research that is conducted in various teams, groups or individually
• Examine the research activities for the ethical soundness, management of the risks, protection of the confidentiality and focuses on the informed consent.

These practices may vary from each other but finally considered on the basis of the individual person (Karanika-Murray & Weyman, 2013). The results that are derived from the study are based on the outcome of each person, the recent findings as well as on the separate evidence that are supported by the true evidence and solid findings. These types of research are mainly used in the clinical research where it is mandatory to provide the details of each person which aims for a better output (MA, 2016).

Conclusion

To enhance the safety, health, and well-being at the workplace, it is important to understand the market trend, must listen to the views of the employees and should examine the problems of the business minutely in a regular interval of time. The above 5 methods are quite useful to get the desired output as they are basic of the research methodologies. The effectiveness of the techniques provides the best option to choose the correct model from the sample.

The real essence of the occupational health, safety, and well-being represents the existence of the relationship between the critical concepts. The objective of the entire scenario was to deal with the organizational issues related to the safety, health, and well-being of the employee in the workplace. Adopting these measures in the organization will lead to huge profit and maximize the productivity level of the company in terms of the health, safety, and environmental risks.

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