Management Control: Key to Workplace Safety

Accident in the workplace is largely caused by lack of management control. Nowadays, people often think about ‘safety is expensive’. But then, try an accident. What price should be tag? It is must not be forgotten that there are pros and cons to this situation. A single unsafe act, condition and environment may or may not cause an accident by themselves. However the unsafe of an individuals’ act or condition could still be caused by lack of management. Therefore, management’s responsibility for controlling the unsafe acts of employees exists briefly because of these unsafe acts occurs in the course of employment that management creates and then directs.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the management about the company more focused

So, every worker must take responsibility to know the basic thing about the occupational health due to it most important in doing the job. Occupational health (OH) state that it is a branch of health services specifically concerned with health, safety and welfare of workers of all categories. That mean, all workers in the workplace or any industry must be concern with their health, safety in the workplace. Top management responsibility to provide the safety workplace to their worker. The Health and Safety Executive (2006) further describe that improving worker productivity if investments made by the management of occupational safety and health. It show that, how important of occupation safety and health in the workplace in order to protect worker and its

The prevention, among workers, of department from health hazards caused by their employment, risk resulting from adverse factors to health in the placing and maintenance of workers in an occupation environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment: and to the adaptation of work to man and each man to his job”.

From that definition, it can describe that health is the most important thing in terms of physical, mental and social well-being to worker in order to ensure that the worker can perform well in their job. While, Based on WHO (1994), Occupational health and the well-being and quality of life of working people are crucial prerequisites for productivity and are of utmost importance for overall socio-economic and sustainable