Question

Scenario:  You are working as an HR professional for a firm whose employees primarily work in an office setting.  You’ve recently seen a number of warning signs that ergonomic problems are on the rise—absenteeism is up, and workers are asking for more workstation modifications. 

You want to alert management to the problem, and persuade them to take action.  Create a brief PowerPoint (8-10 slides) that addresses these issues:

Describe the problems you are seeing in your role (feel free to be creative!).Provide a solid rationale for solving the ergonomic problem at the jobsite.  Chapter 1 in the Goetsch text lists a number of rationales for implementing a safety program—feel free to use one or more rationales.Offer a strategy that helps to solve the ergonomic problems facing the firm

Answer 1

The power point presentation is as below

First Slide – Work Place Safety - Ergonomic Problems in Office

Second Slide:

Background:

During our recent office setting work, we have come across below potential issues.

• a number of warning signs that ergonomic problems are on the rise
• absenteeism is up,
• workers are asking for more workstation modifications

Slide Third:

Looking at employee health and safety, we need to resolve the upcoming ergonomic issues in the office area, so that

• Employees are working in ergonomically suitable environment.
• Do not result any potential ergonomic issue for employees.
• Employees can deliver better result in comfortable work place.
• Comply with corporate guideline.

Forth Slide

Rationale for solving ergonomic problem is work place

• Organization cannot live with ergonomic problem
• Unsafe or unhealthy conditions are harmful for organizations
• Organization cannot live with safety / health issues in work place
• Corporate guideline recommends to remove ergonomic issues immediately from work place.
• Legally an organization cannot live with ergonomic issues in work place
• Ergonomic issues are the issues which are resulting massive adverse impact to the organization in terms of productivity and waste of resources.

Fifth Slide:

Short term Action:

Agency of office setup is called and is working for the resolution for the same.

Sixth Slide

Long term Action:

• Develop and implement strategy to have office seating arrangement ergonomic free and safe for employees.
• Develop and release corporate guidelines for proper seating arrangements sotaht we avoid the ergonomic issues in work place.
• Hiring a consultant who can help in establishing the ergonomic free seating arrangement for the organization.