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Maintaining Health and Safety at
Workplace: Employee and
Employer’s Role in Ensuring a
Safe Working Environment
The concern for health and safety is legitimate in
every context of human enterprise. In schools, for
teaching staff’s safety to be guaranteed, the
equipment available should be properly maintained
and installation for nonexistent ones done
according to the health and safety policies. With a
focus on Mbooni West district, this paper reports
the findings of a survey which focused on the health
and safety of teachers in secondary schools in the
region. Many secondary school administrators do
not consider teaching staff’s involvement in
recommending policies and procedures in curbing
safety hazards. This makes it difficult for the
teaching staff to take responsibility for their own
safety.
 ROLE OF MANAGEMENT IN MAINTENANCE OF
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
A study on employee welfare facilities adopted at
Bosch limited, and involving 100 employees
observed that 65% of the respondents indicated that
they were provided with safety equipment at work
in the organization, 35% of them reported that the
organization did not provide safety equipment. The
researcher concluded that, due to the higher
percentage of those who reported that the company
provided safety equipment at work, the company
then provided safety equipment to its employees
during work.
The fatalistic notion that accidents cannot
happen to us or that they will occur
because of “bad luck” regardless of our
efforts to prevent them is contrary to the
facts. The role of luck (including such
things as unavoidable equipment
malfunction), as a cause of accidents,
has been the subject of considerable
study. Estimates of the percentage of
accidents due to such causes, and
therefore unpreventable, vary between
10 and 20 percent.
The employer/manager is responsible
for the management and control of
health, safety and welfare issues,
which will ensure a safe
environment for all persons
working in or attending the
salon/clinic. However, all therapists
at work also have a duty under the
Act.
THE THERAPIST DUTY AT WORK
1. Take reasonable care to avoid harm to
them or to others by their behaviour or
working practices cooperate with and help
employers/managers to meet the statutory
requirements refrain from misusing or
interfering with anything provided to
protect the health, safety and welfare of all
persons as required by the Act.
2. Follow the correct technique for
all treatments, understand the
effects, and be alert to contra-
indications and contra-actions.
8. Keepa record of client and report
any problems that you have
identified and cured.
7. Informyour supervisor and
colleagues and be prepared to
discuss issues of health and safety
with all other workers, as shared
knowledge makes for a safer
working environment.
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1. THE CONCERN FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY IS

LEGITIMATE IN EVERY CONTEXT OF HUMAN
ENTERPRISE..
2. ENSURING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT IN A
WORKPLACE AFFILIATE BIG RESPONSIBILITY TO
THE MANAGEMENT OF THERAPIST.
3. KNOWING THE CONTRA-INDICATION IN EVERY
CLIENTS IS NOT NECESSARILY NEEDED IN
CONSULTATION MOST ESPECIALLY IF THE CLIENT
IS NOT COMPLAINING.
4. WEARING APPROPRIATE ATTIRE IN A WORKPLACE
IS VERY IMPORTANT SO THAT THERAPIST LOOKS
PROFESSIONAL.
5. CLEANLINESS IN A WORKPLACE WILL ENSURE
SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT.
6. EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HOW TO DEAL
WITH HAZARD IN A WORKPLACE FOR A
SAFER ENVIRONMENT.
7. ASIDE FROM EXHIBITING TRAITS AND
SKILLS A THERAPIST SHOULD ALSO HAVE
FLAWLESS HYGIENE.
8. SHARE KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN THERAPIST
AND COLLEAGUES WILL CAUSE DELAY IN
THE WORKPLACE.
9. CORRECTIVE ACTION IS NEEDED WHEN
HAZARD AND RISK OCCUR.
10. REPORT THE FAULTY EQUIPMENT TO THE
PERSON RESPONSIBLE IN DEALING WITH IT.
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