Health Environment Safety & Social Managment in Enterprises

 

How you can implement HESSME

 

You can reduce duplication of tasks, by integrating health, environment and safety into one process. This benefits employees, the environment and the outside community. You can deal with health promotion, environmental management and accident prevention at each step of the process.

One simplified system can be set up for all instead of integrating the different and complex systems around safety, quality, environment, and occupational health.

There are two key elements for each of the following steps.

1. Involve employees as thoroughly as possible. Workplace well-being is not achieved by imposing top decisions, but by meaningful dialogue about what are the priorities for action.

2. Appoint somebody to become the Implementer, somebody who can take responsibilities for the day to day running of the process of integration and who can encourage employees to become involved.

Then start to take the seven steps to improve the health and environment.


©World Health Organisation 2002
Authors: Dr Charlie Clutterbuck & Dr Bogdan Baranski