Reasons for good health and safety management

Question 1

Moral reasons

Answer 1

Need to provide a reasonable standard of care and ethical reasons to reduce

• Accident rates
• Industrial disease and ill health rates

Question 2

Legal Reasons

Answer 2

Employers have a duty to take reasonable care of workers. Poor management can lead to

• Prosecutions
• Civil action – compensation claims

Question 3

Financial reasons

Answer 3

Poor health and safety management can lead to

• direct
• indirect costs

Good health and safety management can lead to

• a more highly motivated workforce resulting in an improvement in the rate of production and product quality
• an improved image and reputation of the organisation with its various stakeholders

Question 4

Social reasons

Answer 4

These include

• societal expectation of good standards of health and safety
• duty of care