Total Workplace Safety and Health (Total WSH)

Globally, the workforce is evolving due to factors such as demographic shifts and lifestyle choices. Organizations as such are facing new challenges that impact the health, safety and wellbeing of employees in workplaces. To tackle these challenges, companies must consider new approaches to enhance health, safety and wellbeing of employees.

Total Workplace Safety and Health (Total WSH) is a new approach that integrates workplace safety, occupational health and health promotion. It is only when these components are in place, could true integration of workplace safety and health be effectively carried out.

It is a holistic approach towards managing safety and health in the workplace that includes proactive, broad and integrated assessments of all risks in the workplace: safety, occupational health and employee wellbeing (Figure 1). By managing the health and safety aspects of work together, employees can live and work healthily and safely, reducing sickness absence and ill-health, and may even improve their productivity at work. The general steps of implementing Total WSH are illustrated in Figure 2.

Total WSH triangle — Figure 1: Components of Total WSH

Total WSH A-I-ME approach — Figure 2: Total WSH Implementation Roadmap in an Organisation

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