Workplace Safety

Workplace Safety
What is workplace safety? Workplace safety refers to the health and safety or welfare of persons working a job. It does not matter if the person is a construction worker or an accountant, workplace safety still affects them. Workplace safety is a very important topic for employers as well as employees. Employers have to make sure that employees are aware and appropriately trained in their areas so that they can avoid any harm. Does having or following policy and procedures eliminate all risk of danger and provide a safe workplace for employees? This paper will prove that even with having proper training and policies and procedures in a workplace, someone can still be injured on the job.
Safety in the workplace covers all areas. When the topic of workplace safety comes up it is not only referring to physically. Workplace safety covers physically or mechanically, chemically or biologically, and psychologically and socially. Every day there is a chance of someone getting physically hurt at work. Someone may fall in the workplace. Falling in the workplace is one of the most common causes of a person being physically hurt. A person who works as a mechanic, a farmer, or someone in a factory will have the chance of being injured mechanically through the use of machines. Depending on if a person works with chemicals, there is a very high chance of them being harmed due to chemicals. No matter what type of workplace a person is in, he or she has the risk of them being psychologically or socially harmed. Of course some workplaces carry more of a high risk for psychological harm than others. For example, someone who works as police officer or a detention officer would definitely have a higher risk of psychological harm as compared to someone who is perhaps working as a secretary due to some of the environments they encounter.
There are many risks when the workplace is a correctional facility. There are definitely more risks in this type environment than