ABSTRACT
Managing health at work is a task that will need the support of senior management, not only in terms of resources, but concerted action to enable organizational and employee well-being. Health is everyone’s business: the groundsmen, the secretary, the catering team, the personnel officer. The human resources department within the organization have limited time and resources available to deal with all the issues that relate to employee health. Workplace health initiatives can be achieved with co-operation between managers and the workforce working in unison. The role of the workplace health co-ordinator is envisaged as a pivotal one for liaison between management and the workforce. Individual health risk appraisals were introduced during the 1970s in the USA. Risk assessment strategies were devised to locate potential and causative agents of ill health and injury.
