Human Resources: Health and Safety

Die, each year due to injuries or accidents at work, many hundreds of people in Portugal. Many thousands lost working time by injury or disease. For these reasons, the health and safety issues are very serious in business.

For occupational hygiene means the set of rules and procedures aimed at protecting the physical and mental integrity of the employee.

Safety at work is the set of technical measures to prevent accidents.

Different legislation has been keen to establish rules of hygiene and safety at the workplace in general and specific regulations for certain types of industries, hospitals and schools. The legislation also requires the set in each specific context, who is responsible for enforcing these rules.
It will be steering the company's disclosure standards of safe working and the training for that. The inspection of working conditions should be regular and periodic.

But safety in the workplace is not only a matter of direction of the company. It is for workers to take steps towards their own health and safety and not to forget the others:


- Subject to the decisions of the company in relation to security procedures at work.

- Indicate the direction of the incident that led company, or may lead to claims.

- Cooperate in the investigation of accidents to prevent their repetition.

• Objectives of human resources management
• The activity of human resources
• Human Resources Planning
• Human Resources: Recruitment
• Human Resources: Selection and Interview
• Human Resources: Contract
• Human Resources: Assessment
• Human Resources: Training and Development
• Human Resources: Health and Safety
• The role of human resources
• Motivation of human resources
• Remuneration of staff
• Social benefits of human resources
• Productivity of human resources