...Health and Wellness in the Workplace Health Care costs are on the rise and present a threat to many Americans, and business corporations in the United States. Many Americans between the ages of 18 and 65 spend most of their days in the workplace. Health and wellness in the workplace is something that all businesses and major corporations should promote in the workplace to help educate employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle. There are many factors to consider although many business owners and major corporations feel that wellness programs are pricey and may or may not be beneficial for the employees. The researcher will prove that having a worksite wellness program will be beneficial in the long run and will promote a healthier work environment. Some factors that will benefit employers by having wellness programs are lower chronic illness rate, increased productivity in employees, increase moral rate and lower health care premiums. A health and wellness program is an employer’s approach to help improve employees’ health by providing wellness programs to include activities such as company sponsored exercise and weight loss programs. Many business owners and corporations will benefits by having health and wellness programs in the workplace. Having such programs will help employees prevent workplace illnesses, injuries, reduce obesity rate, as well as the use of tobacco, and lower the absenteeism. Health care cost presents a substantial threat to the U.S. economy...
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...Understanding Health and safety in the Business Workplace P1/M1– All work places need to ensure the health and safety of their employees, customers and any persons who will be entering the premises of a business. Businesses have a legal obligation to do so therefore Legal requirements have to be met and guidelines to be followed such as COSHH, RIDDOR, COMAH and other safety factors have to be followed. Legislations such as the Health and Safety Act 1974 ensured that all employers would have certain duties they must perform toward their employees and customers and what duties employees would have with other employees and customers, This act did not state that employers would have to take action in reducing any risks in the work place if it impossible or that the time, cost or trouble involved outweighed the risk. This Act just ensures businesses have good management and tackle any risks that occur in a sensible manner, unlike the next legislation. The Health and Safety at work Act 1999 ensure business follow guidelines implemented by the law. It gives more explicit instructions on what employers and employees must do within with workplace to keep it a healthy and safe environment. This Act states that A business or employer must do everything they can to reduce the Risk of any injury to an employee. If they do not only could they face legal action against an employee or customer they could face criminal legal action against the court for failing to follow the Health and Safety...
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...How does mental health affect the workplace? What is the impact? Mental health in the workplace refers to the relationship between employee mental health and the workplace. It encompasses: how the workplace can impact on an individual’s mental health how an individual’s mental health can impact on the workplace Direct cost : Research undertaken by Beaton on behalf of Beyond Blue reported that more than 6 million working days are lost per year as a result of one mental illness alone – depression - and that each worker whose depression is untreated costs their employer $9660. It is estimated that the overall cost of unmanaged or mismanaged mental health in the Australian workplace is $13 billion a year. Lower productivity/performance There are a number of reasons why organisations and businesses need to improve the mental health of their workplaces: There are considerable financial costs associated with mental health problems in the workplace including absenteeism, presenteeism (i.e. reduced productivity while at work), high staff turnover, accidents and workers' compensation claims. (It also costs the overall community through the use of health services, loss of productivity, loss of lives, social exclusion and human rights abuses.) Employers are subject to a number of legislative requirements related to mental health in the workplace, including work health and safety, discrimination, privacy and fair work legislation. Employers have an ethical...
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...Psychology of Health in the Workplace Kristin Haimowitz HCA/250 January 22, 2012 Wakita R. Bradford Psychology of Health in the Workplace A good attitude can go a long way in making the place where you work a more tolerable place to be. Having a healthy lifestyle can make it easier to deal with the smaller problems that seem to happen on a day to day basis. Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and the prevention of illness. Due to recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research, it had lead to new ways of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health beliefs, and social conditions (e.g., cultural influences, family relationships, social support) (Marks, 2011). People have developed a field of health psychology that helps people deal with stressors that they are involved with at their workplace. Many experts perform research to help them solidify their findings. Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) has developed from these studies, and does research so that they can better understand the needs of people in their work settings. Also, OHP looks to understand how psychosocial characteristics...
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...Psychology of Health in the Workplace Elaina Tanner HCA/250 7/8/12 University of Phoenix Psychology of Health in the Workplace The relationship of health and psychology can be complex. Health is a positive state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Psychology is the way you deal with life, or situations that you come across. If you have a positive attitude and a positive state of mind you may be healthier and feel better. Your state of mind can affect your health greatly. If you are always in a bad mood you can cause your body to be unhealthy because of stress and just a bad attitude in general. Stress can cause a lot of health problems such as obesity, migraines, cardiovascular problems, stroke, and depression. Some people that get stressed can choose unhealthy ways of dealing with it such as smoking or eating fatty or unhealthy foods. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, and stroke. It can also lead to respiratory disorder that cannot be reversed. Eating fatty foods and unhealthy foods can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease. Good ways of dealing with stress are walking, working out, yoga, reading, getting a massage, and talking or writing about it. Doing all of this can reduce your stress along with your blood pressure. They can also put you into a better state of mental, physical and social state. Stress is a common issue in the workplace. In the workplace a person runs in the large workloads and not enough...
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...Health and Wellness in the Workplace Sandra Whitman Introduction to Research and Information Utilization Mr. Charles F. Millhollan March 29, 2005 Abstract Health and wellness in the workplace plays a vital role in a companies’ ability to not only keep their employees healthy, but also to keep the costs of absenteeism and health-care down. The most important asset to a company is not only their clients, but their employees. Companies are investing not only in their employees’ wellness, but also in their safety and fitness as well. In an effort to keep their employees healthy physically and psychologically, companies are incorporating employee-wellness programs into their work environment to ensure their employees maintain healthy lives. This research paper will focus not only on the physical impact that unhealthy workplaces have on employees but what different companies are doing to promote long-term wellness. Health and Wellness in the Workplace Employers are faced not only with soaring costs of health-care but also with the rising costs of employee absenteeism, and they are reevaluating what used to be purely a personal matter for workers (Kaplan-Leiserson, 2004). In a study conducted during the years 2000 – 2002, the rates of absenteeism remained essentially stable--2.1 percent in 2000, 2.2 percent in 2001, and 2.1 percent in 2002; the costs of paid unscheduled absenteeism rose sharply, not just in 2002 but also in 2001, when they jumped to $755 per employee...
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...Psychological health in the workplace Including mental health in your business model is important to a healthy workplace. Poor mental health not only hurts the individual, it also reduces corporate profits. It's important that all levels of the workplace - including the Board of Directors, management, finance, and human resources departments - get involved to incorporate mental health at your workplace in order to ensure proper functioning of firm. There is also a legislative requirement for employers to protect the mental and physical health of their employees. Many provincial occupational health and safety acts have been expanded to include harm to psychological well-being in the definition of harassment. In jurisdictions that do not have explicit legislation dealing with psychological health in the workplace, the general duty clause would apply. The most important organizational factors that impact organizational health, the health of individual employees and the financial bottom line, including the way work is carried out and the context in which work occurs, are Psychological Support, Organizational Culture, Clear Leadership & Expectations, Civility & Respect, Psychological Job Fit, Growth & Development, Recognition & Reward, Involvement & Influence, Workload Management, Engagement, Balance, Psychological Protection, Protection of Physical Safety. Apart from the aforesaid factors, a key issue affecting an employee’s health is stress. Taber's Cyclopedic...
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...Psychology of Health in the Workplace Kimberly Okony HCA/250-The Psychology of Health University of Phoenix Axia April 22, 2012 Darlene Tomlinson Psychology of Health in the Workplace The relationship between health and psychology has become more established in recent years. Past and continuing studies, and research, is providing insight into how an individual’s entire feeling of wellbeing should be considered when trying to balance or maintain the status of their overall health. They are discovering that many biological, mental, and environmental factors can all work together to add to people’s health issues. Finding the correct balance of treatment choices is now including other alternative influences and circumstances as possible elements that may be adding to the causes of physical health issues. An example of a specific lifestyle choice that can affect health and psychology in the workplace is poor eating habits. For an individual who may choose to skip breakfast in the morning, he or she can become irritable, have a difficult time concentrating, or develop physical symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, or headache. Irritability can lead to poor communication with co-workers and loss of production on everyone’s schedule. Loss of energy from low blood sugar may lead to feeling tired and unable to concentrate which again can lead to misunderstandings and poor communication in order to resolve work related issues. One...
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...There are many doctors that would agree that there is a connection between physical health and psychological health. When you are getting stressed out over your job because you may be overworked or there are financial problems within your family. All of this could cause you to have some form of physical reaction. We are going to look at how these two things if they are really connected with one another. Physical Health and Psychology Your physical health can be affected by all of the things that you are doing, by the way that we gather and process information, your career choices that you make, family, troubles as also the environment in which you live in. It is to be believed that illness and wellness both exist on a continuum. Like for an example if we know someone who may be feeling fine and their liver is getting damaged from all of the drinking that they have been doing for many years. We wouldn’t say that they are dying or sick. What we would probably stay that they are less healthy than they would be if they wasn’t doing the unhealthy thing. Medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky (1979, 1987) has suggested that we consider these concepts as ends of a continuum, noting that ‘‘We are all terminal cases. And we all are, so long as there is a breath of life in us, in some measure healthy’’ (1987,p. 3). There are times when you may feel sick, tired, or just run down. This doesn’t always have to be a response from a virus or even bacteria that has invaded the body. It could...
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...Psychology of Health in the Workplace The relationship between health and psychology has become more established in recent years. Past and continuing studies, and research, is providing insight into how an individual’s entire feeling of well being should be considered when trying to balance or maintain the status of their overall health. They are discovering that many biological, mental, and environmental factors can all work together to add to people’s health issues. Finding the correct balance of treatment choices is now including other alternative influences and circumstances as possible elements that may be adding to the causes of physical health issues. An example of a specific lifestyle choice that can affect health and psychology in the workplace is poor eating habits. For an individual who may choose to skip breakfast in the morning, he or she can become irritable, have a difficult time concentrating, or develop physical symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, or headache. Irritability can lead to poor communication with co-workers and loss of production on everyone’s schedule. Loss of energy from low blood sugar may lead to feeling tired and unable to concentrate which again can lead to misunderstandings and poor communication in order to resolve work related issues. One poor choice can develop problems for a person that can last the entire day, or possibly ruin relationships at work, especially if this poor choice is made continually. A person, who repeatedly...
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...Change and Innovation Paper Erica Douglas HCA/250 THE PHYSCHOLOGY OF HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE May 11, 2014 Instructor: TERI ROSSMAN In any area of life, there will be change and there will be some form of resistance from those who are in their comfort zone. Healthcare is no different. Electronic medical records have bypassed paper records and the hustle of filing charts and retrieving charts. When implementing change, there has to be not only those that work on the technological side of things, there needs to be someone that are involved with the human side of things to work with those who are having a hard time dealing with the changes. Not everyone will adapt to change in the same manner. Some of the older workers are not as computer savvy as some of the new-aged, younger workers. This can create fear in them not only because it is something new but there can also be fear of losing one’s job because of the changes. According to "Successful Workplace" (2014), training and retraining will be key to using EMRs efficiently as first rollouts and follow on releases need to be ‘swallowed’ by healthcare organizations Education and communication can help reduce resistance to change by helping their employees see the logic of the change effort. (Robbins, S., Decenzo, D., & Coulter, M., 2014). Dealing with change is a personal experience for all involved. No two people will adapt to change in the same way. It is important for organizations to be aware that there...
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...Curtin University of Technology Department of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering Management 690 Assignment 2 Management of Health and Safety at Work in the Chemical Industry Prepared for: Professor Geoff Taylor By: Mohammed Alshiha Student ID: 13884145 Date: Jan 1st 2010 1.0 Introduction 1 Declaration (i) I have read and understood Curtin University’s policy on plagiarism and I confirm that the work submitted on the 1st of January by me is my own work, and that the work of any other person contained therein is clearly acknowledged. (ii) The work has been written since the 8th of December 2009. (iii) The references in the work do directly relate to the material appearing immediately before them in the text. (iv) All word-for-word quotes from another author are in quotation marks. Mohammed Alshiha ID#13884145 1.0 Introduction 2 Contents 1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 2.0 Safety Management System ........................................................................................................ 5 3.0 Risk Analysis ................................................................................................................................ 7 3.1 Search for hazards ................................................................................................................... 7 3.1.1 Systematic...
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...D1: evaluate the effectiveness of the use of techniques used in marketing products in one organisation The organisation I have chosen to evaluate the effectiveness on their use of techniques in marketing products is boots. The product I researched on was Rimmel London eyeliner which was from boots. There was a range of marketing techniques they have used. They have advertised the product on television and also the internet (YouTube). When it comes to advertisements Rimmel exaggerated eyeliner got over fifty seven thousand two hundred and fifty eight views. The customer reviews that were received for Rimmel London ‘’exaggerate eye liner’’ was last year in 2012(11 November). They only got six reviews; out of six people four people rated it five stars; one person rated three stars and one person rated it one star. However, from March to October 2013 they have got 101 views mostly giving back positive feedback. Also forty-four people gave a star rating of four point five and five. This has had a major effect over time because before Rimmel London wasn’t that recognised and now the views and ratings have rapidly increased. Furthermore, Boots have used a market relationship technique. For example if you buy the Rimmel London exaggerated eye liner you can now get the second one half the price. Another offer which you can get is when you spend ten pounds or more on any product that belongs to Rimmel London you can retrieve a free gift which is Rimmel London scandalize mascara...
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...Describe how two businesses are organised Introduction For the previous assignments I had to look in to research two completely different businesses, these businesses are; Manchester United (PLC) and Islamic Relief (Registered Charity). Now within this assignment I am going to be analysing and describing how both of the businesses are organised, and how they are both, structured. We went to Old Trafford, on Wednesday 7th October and we were taken on a short tour of football stadium and also took part in an education lecture which included a question and answer session with the Educational Officer at Manchester United. The educational lecture and the question and answer session was provided for us to help us with our business work. (Unit 1: The Business Environment) This helped us, by answering some of the questions that would have been asked in the later assignments. A visitor had come, from Islamic Relief to tell us about the charity that helps millions around the world. I also gained information and knowledge regarding this business. It was fascinating to find out the difference between the registered charity and the football club. This was because I think it’s amazing how two different businesses can achieve different aims and objectives, yet they both can be so successful. The two businesses have different organisational structures, an organisational structure is designed and created to, divide up the work that needs to be completed thus making it easier to...
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