Improving workplace health and safety requires collaboration

IN a business environment dictated by numerous challenges and changes, many organisations continue to deliberate on the changing nature of jobs and the need to continuously raise productivity in the workplace. The emergence of newer, disruptive technologies also creates more complex challenges that businesses are now facing.

In addition to these challenges, organisations have to pay equal attention to the important aspect of workplace safety and health (WSH).

Many organisations have in fact become more aware of WSH and are making strides in enhancing and creating healthy and sustainable workplaces for all. The five-step bizSAFE programme, conceptualised and implemented by the Workplace Safety and Health Council, can be credited for this progress. Many private sector organisations, including the General Insurance Association of Singapore (GIA), have worked collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders to deliver on these gains in WSH.