Human Resource management. post -03 Health, Safety for Wellbeing What is health and safety and why is it important? Health and safety are measures employers must take protect the mental and physical wellbeing of workers and non-workers. The Health and Safety at Work Act protects employees, customers, and visitors in your premises. Ideally, employers aim to eliminate or significantly prevent accidents happening in the workplace. ''It is of great relevance for HR professionals to always have an in-depth understanding of how safe their workplaces are for guaranteed employee health. Most of HR professionals have aligned themselves along the normal traditional manpower management activities such as leave management, performance management, recruitment, training and development and forgot about the relevance of Occupational Health and Safety to the employment relationship''. (Martin, 2018) Another meaning of health & safety are many rules & p...
