ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses safety and wellbeing of the employees and describes the role of Human resources manager, health and safety advisor, department manager, and employees. The responsibility of health and safety advisor is to organise health and safety training programmes, to communicate the health and safety policy to all employees, to monitor the health and safety of employees, to conduct regular health and safety meetings, to conduct risk assessment with the Supervisor as and when needed, to be a champion to implement health and safety procedures, and to offer professional support to an employee under stress. Health and Safety Advisor identifies potential causes of workplace injury and illness and assess their risks. Health and Safety Advisor monitors the health of workers who are at risk such as those handling chemicals, exposed to fumes and dust, exposed to high noise and those carrying out visual inspection, etc.
