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You and your colleagues on the Joint Health and Safety Committee are working towards achieving one of Canada's Workplace Safety Awards for your workplace in 2022. Your task is to choose a scenario below and design, implement and evaluate an innovative and award-winning occupational health, safety and wellness plan for your workplace, in response to the factors outlined in your scenario.
Your health, safety and wellness plan should demonstrate your understanding and analysis of the hazards and risks affecting your industry and sector, as well as the specific risks or hazards affecting your workplace. In addition, you will be required to design, administer, implement and evaluate the success of your plan or program, including any policies, health, safety and wellness practices, training, motivation or integrated health systems management programs you develop.
Scenario:
You were hired three years ago by a footwear manufacturer based in a small town in Northern Ontario, to help improve occupational health and safety and boost the employer's environmental and corporate social image. Your employer is one of the leading industries in the town and has employed generations of families for over 80 years. Footwear manufacturing can involve working with heavy machinery and hazardous chemicals, which can be noxious for people and the environment. Employees have complained about poor lighting, noise, vibration and ventilation for years and the local municipality expressed concerns about continued environmental sustainability.
Your assignment will be assessed as follows:
5% - Knowledge, understanding and interpretation of industry, sector and workplace, including:
-Common risks, hazards or OHS trends impacting your industry and sector.
-Specific hazards or risks impacting your workplace as outlined in your scenario.
-The target audience for the plan (their past behaviours and motivation to change).
-Legislation, regulations, standards or codes governing the workplace, industry or sector.5% - Planning, design, implementation and evaluation of your campaign plan to improve occupational health, safety and wellness behaviours and outcomes, by detailing and outlining:
-Planned actions (between 4 to 6 planned actions), which may include but are not limited to, policies, prevention and control strategies, training programs, wellness initiatives, worker's compensation or disability management strategies, as well as motivation campaigns to improve participation and accountability for OHS.
-How each action or group of actions is intended to improve health, safety and wellness for the target audience and workplace as a whole.
-How the planned actions are intended to be implemented.
-What potential barriers, if any, might impede your planned actions.
-What strategies will help to overcome potential barriers.
-Metrics used to evaluate the success of each action or groups of actions.5% - Innovation and creativity of your plan: While the plan should be practical and feasible, consider strategies to inform, motivate and engage your audience to adapt to the behaviours and actions outlined in your plan.
-What design elements make your plan, engaging, innovative, creative or fun for your audience?
-Why does your plan standout and deserve to win a Canada's Workplace Safety Award?5% - Organization: Your plan is well organized, harmonized and easy to read:
-The plan is logical, practical and easy to follow.
-Written work flows seamlessly from one writer to the next.
-The plan is free of grammatical and spelling errors.