Healthy Workplace

Abstract

Creating and maintaining a healthy workplace crosses both organizational and health communication contexts. Due in part to rising health care costs, managerial interest in workplace health promotion has exploded since the end of the twentieth century. Scholarship in this vein focuses on the management of occupational health and illness, workplace fitness and health promotion, and constructions of wellness. Scholars evaluate the effective implementation of workplace health programs, promote employee participation in health programs, and raise important questions about power and the ethics behind company‐sponsored notions of what is perceived to be healthy and well.

Responsible Professor

“…This new subjectivity means faculty members and their choices are to blame (cf. James andZoller 2017: 1088) for any failure to perform as "model neoliberal subjects" (Gill (2009: 241), especially if they choose not to seek the EAP's help: As Hansen notes, EAPs "rely upon the willingness of workers to want to manage their work and family responsibilities, with the assistance of these programs " (2004: 159; emphasis in text).…”

Improving Safety Performance by Influence Safety Management Practices and Safety Culture: A Conceptual Framework

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Numerous organizations are actively implementing occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) to ensure the creation of a safe and healthy workplace by removing or lowering the hazards using a proactive approach. Workplace safety is crucial, especially in developing countries, for businesses to continue functioning, thrive, and function at their best (James & Zoller, 2017;Kabir et al, 2018). One of the sectors in Malaysia with the highest accident rates is manufacturing.

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