Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare
WHAT IS A WORKPLACE?
- If you put the phrase, “healthy workplace” into the Google search engine, you get about 2,000,000 results. Clearly it’s a hot topic. And just as clearly, once you follow some of the links, there are thousands of interpretations of what the phrase means; thousands of providers of healthy workplace models, tools and information; thousands of researchers looking into the subject.
- A workplace is a location or building where people perform physical or mental work in order to earn a living. It is usually a location outside one's home or place of residence. Common private-sector workplaces in a town or city include factories, warehouses, stores, banks, restaurants, and hotels. Common public-sector workplaces include government offices, schools, and libraries. There are also non-profit workplaces such as hospitals and soup kitchens. In rural areas, a workplace may be a farm or a ranch. The term "workplace" is also used to describe the work environment in general especially as it relates to the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers.
- Workplace should be defined as “the environment (as place, tools, social connections, physical well being) enabling work to be done”.
-This broader definition, will lead workplace development to include the determination of:
• Where work will be done (such as in an office, at home, in a plane or car, in an office, or at a conference, all of the above, etc.)
• What processes (such as transaction processing, innovating, communicating, learning, etc) will define the work to be done.
• How technology will enable those processes to be carried out (such as data access, groupware, mobileware, etc.)
• What physical environment will support the work (such as office design and layout, furniture, equipment, temperature, light, etc.)
• When and where people interact to exchange knowledge and information
• An alternative definition of the workplace might be the environments enabling knowledge workers
- If you put the phrase, “healthy workplace” into the Google search engine, you get about 2,000,000 results. Clearly it’s a hot topic. And just as clearly, once you follow some of the links, there are thousands of interpretations of what the phrase means; thousands of providers of healthy workplace models, tools and information; thousands of researchers looking into the subject.
- A workplace is a location or building where people perform physical or mental work in order to earn a living. It is usually a location outside one's home or place of residence. Common private-sector workplaces in a town or city include factories, warehouses, stores, banks, restaurants, and hotels. Common public-sector workplaces include government offices, schools, and libraries. There are also non-profit workplaces such as hospitals and soup kitchens. In rural areas, a workplace may be a farm or a ranch. The term "workplace" is also used to describe the work environment in general especially as it relates to the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers.
- Workplace should be defined as “the environment (as place, tools, social connections, physical well being) enabling work to be done”.
-This broader definition, will lead workplace development to include the determination of:
• Where work will be done (such as in an office, at home, in a plane or car, in an office, or at a conference, all of the above, etc.)
• What processes (such as transaction processing, innovating, communicating, learning, etc) will define the work to be done.
• How technology will enable those processes to be carried out (such as data access, groupware, mobileware, etc.)
• What physical environment will support the work (such as office design and layout, furniture, equipment, temperature, light, etc.)
• When and where people interact to exchange knowledge and information
• An alternative definition of the workplace might be the environments enabling knowledge workers