US 11547

LEVEL 6, CREDIT 12, VERSION 2

Human Resource Management
History of Modern Confectionary Ltd.-

Modern Confectionery is a New Zealand owned and operated company based in

Auckland since 1946. Modern confectionery is well known manufacturer of boiled
candies, confectionery bars, marshmallow confectionery and various well
known chocolate products. Modern’s Confectionery is serving communities with
traditional and unique New Zealand flavours. These are prepared using special recipes
and ingredients to provide exclusive taste and appearance.

Aims and Objectives:

We aim to produce high quality products at the most competitive prices and serve you
with excellence. To ensure we meet your needs we provide our products in various
packaging and sizes.

Business priorities:

This company gives better image to their customers and gets good name and fame.
Following are the main aims of the company in which they put efforts.

1. good quality
2. attractive look
3. Packing with attractive colors.
4. Getting good place in supermarkets.
5. active property management
6. satisfy the customers with better quality

Health and safety plan and processes

H and S is an Act of parliament that defines that fundamental structure and authority
for the encourage, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and
welfare. This act defines the duties of all facilities like employees ,employer, persons
in control of work premises those who manage, maintain them and persons in general.

Health and safety plans and procedures are design for the safety of employees health
and his or her working ability.

Merits of health and safety plans

 1.Maintain the health, safety and welfare of person at work

2.Protect the persons at work. against risks to health and safety arising out of or in
connection with the activities of persons at work.

3.Safety clothes for the workers and safety equipments to avoid accidents.

4..Controlling the releasing of poisonous gases and chemicals or noxious substances.

5.Disposal of wastage to control atmospheric pollution.

Needs for the plan and processes for a safe and healthy work environment:

Mandatory notification of serious harm and accident: A brief description of

employers, principals and self employed people obligation to report serious harm and
workplace injuries is given to the department of labour office (DOL) as soon as possible.

First aid at work place: Safety garments ,well equipped first aid kit in a workplace can
sometimes mean difference between life and death if a serious incident occurs

Hazards assessment manual for the business: A manual for assessing the hazards in
the work place to help employers and business owners to reduce accident and injuries

Managing hazards in the work place: Any type of hazards in the work place really hurt
your business. The first step to improve work place health and safety is to identify the
hazards and to minimize their risks.

Health and safety procedures: Health and safety procedures widely include the topics
such as manual handling, chemical safety, work equipment, display screen equipment,
eye sight, office furniture, electrical equipments and many more.

General Information by companies regarding Health and safety procedures:

• Notice Board:-Regarding the safety of the employees, the company should

displays the information on the display board indicating the signs of the
particular hazards in that area.
• Hazard Management:- To track all the hazards at the workplace to ensure a
running log is kept the company is having hazard management. Actions can be
assigned to each hazard to implement the correct actions

Health and safety policies of the organizations: This policy sets out how health
and safety issues are managed with in an organization. A health and safety policy
managing health and safety at work and maintain the standards and preventing
accidents and instances of work related ill health. The overall responsibility for
health and safety is on the employer but many day to day operations delegated. This
 policy shows who is the responsible for different things like first aid, fire risk
assessment and investigating accidents.

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Legal Requirements

• Section 2 of the health and safety at work Act 1974 requires five or more
employers to have a health and safety policy statement. It should be specific
to their business, setting out their general policy for protecting the H & S of
their employees at work their organizations and arrangements for putting the
policy into practice. The policy must be brought into the notice of all
employees and be revised whenever necessary.

Main points of Health and Safety under legal requirements are :

Legislation: Action with respect to act, bills and resolution or similar items by
congress, a state legislature, local governing body, public referendum or
constitutional amendment. Legislation does not include acts or rulings of executive,
judicial or administrative bodies.

Objectives of legislation:

• To prevent employee’s harm, impose specific duties.

• A better state of health and safety.
• Provide approval of codes of practice and make regulations relating to
hazards.

Codes of Practice: IN codes of practice there are responsibilities are set for the
employees in the regulation of worker. So there are the main points of codes of practice:

• Availability of safety equipments, garments and protective devices and supervise

their use.
• Give training and instructions to enable employees to use the facilities safely and
efficiently.
• Maintain health and safety conditions, with the legal requirements defining the
minimum.
• To impress a duty of care on all members.
• Accident Prevention and Safe Working Practices.
• To maintain a constant and continuing interest in H&S matters .
• Obey the rules and regulations of the organization.

Duties of employers: following are the duties of an employer under health and safety act

• Tp provide good environment and safe working conditions

• Proper use, handling, storage, and transport of substances
 • Give instructions and training to ensure that the employees carry out their job
safely
• Give opportunities to employees to be involved in the development of procedures
for managing safety hazards and dealing with emergency.
• Hazard management eliminate ,isolate or minimize the hazard from the working
place.
• Ensure that all safety clothing are used properly by the employee.

Duties of employee:

• the employee’s duty is to protect himself and others around him from the
hazards.
• They should give co operation to their seniors and subordinates.
• They can suggest ways to eliminate ,isolate or minimize the hazards from
workplace.
• They should join risk identification and risk management process.

Duties of other persons:

• The don’t cost harm to themselves and others.

• They should follow the sign board and some other specific directions while
entering in place of work.
• Don’t enter in premises where heavy machinery is working without the
permission of an authorized staff member.
• Role of central and local government agencies: other legislation that applies to
the workplace are either Acts passes by the parliament or by local government
bodies like: smoke free environment Act 1990, noise control regulation, fire
safety regulation .the basic purpose of this organization is to improve its image
and helpful for nation also. .local government regulations are looking for the
good running of the company as they are considering and obey the health and
safety rules.

Legal liability: if any company disobey the rules of health and safety then the
government can cancel their license or they will have to pay the fine as a legal penalty. so
for the punishment a company have to pay the $50000.

Recent example of company who has pay the fine for legal penalty For example, the
DOJ has made public its intention to conduct a criminal .... In April 2007, Baker Hughes agreed
to pay the largest FCPA penalty in .... the company agreed to pay a fine of $800000, to accept
responsibility for the misconduct, and to .... It should not be regarded as legal advice.

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Health and Safety Management: Health and safety management is helpful in running
the business more effectivey and efficiently and safely. By it every person in the company knows
the right way to do the things. H&S management is a systematic approach to comply with all your
Legal obligations. This management helps to control the risks, cut costs and get
competitive edge. Its all too easy to overlook requirements or repeat mistakes from the
past .This policy provides foundation continouly improving health and safety
Management within your business.

Benefits of Health and Safety Management System.; Health and safety systematic
approach to management runs your business both effectively and easily .By it we can
judge that every person uses the right approach every time. The benefits of this
management are as follows:
• It reduces the risks at a working place and also the costs associated with the
accidents.
• Your active supervision alerts the other employees towards H&S management
duties.
• Health &Safety Executive will generally regulate the business with a lighter touch
if it is well managed.
By it chance to do any penality will also reduced.

Workplace Hazards: The workplace hazards means any kind of accident that cause
problem hurt to the life ,health property and environment .these type of hazards can occur
any time and creates more hazardous condition at a workplace .Both vulnerability and
hazard interact to create risks .There are main four types of hazards are as below:

Physical Hazards:
• Machines, equipments and other day time using tools cause lots of noise.
• X-rays, vibrations etc. cause physical nausianence.
• Temperature-heat and cold.
• Any kind of cut and rash on the body.
Chemical Hazards:
• Smoke, gases.
• Fuels like petrol ,diesel.
• Poisounous gases.
• Lead, asbestos.
• Harmful solvents, dyes etc.
Psychological Hazards:
• Work overload.
• Stress, tension.
• Interpersonal relationships.
• Organizational structure.
• Rude behavior like degrade, abuse etc.
• Long working hours.
Safety Hazards:
• Electrical short circuiting.
• Lifting, uncomfortable working position.
• Fire, slipping.
Evaluate Risks: Evaluate risk means as the probability of occurring of any accident at
a workplace and the problems caused from it. Risk management just see that what is
going wrong and causing damage at a workplace. After that the committee try to find out
the risk ,deal with them by applying different strategies .Business that have identified the
risks will be better prepared and have a more cost-effective way of dealing with them.

Modern’s confectionary risks related to work or may be injured during the course of his
work. So Modern confectionary normally provide the insurance facility to all of its
workers to face the accidents .Any kind of accident effects the production and put it to
halt.Loss depends upon the loss of production .Modern Ltd. makes payment streams
planned and monitored to avoid losses due to safety hazards.

Isolate and remove hazards:

Isolation of the hazards means to reduce the risks and try to remove them by the
following ways:
• Warning signs must be drawn near the dangerous areas.
• Safety alarms are placed at all work places.
• Machines give beep sound when creates any problem.
• Removal of hazardous chemical and toxic substances from public contact.
• Safety wears like shoes, clothes and gloves should be provided to reduce the
accidents.

Safety and protection equipment and processes: Protective equipment refers to

protective clothing, like jackets, helmets, goggles and other garments designed to protect
the wearer’s body from injury by blunt impacts ,electrical hazards ,heat, chemicals ,and
infection ,for job-related occupational safety and health purposes and in sports ,martial
arts, combat ,etc.

Following are the safety and protection equipment:

• Life jackets.
• Chastity belts.
• Reflectors ,reflective strips, flashlights.
• Mounted mirrors.
• High visibility clothing.
• Fall arrest equipment.

Safety processes: The safety committee try to prevent explosions, fires leaking of toxic
chemicals ,gases etc. at a workplace. It provides facilities to deal with the hazards.
OS&H tries to covers the management of Personal Safety and well developed
management systems also address Process Safety Issues .The strategies and equipments
used for the health and safety processes are different for different approaches.
Costs and benefits: The cost benefit analysis estimates the benefit accrued in case of
accidents in the form of payment of compensation to the cost of accident premium. The
workplace costs benefits are of two types Direct and Indirect Costs .Modern
Confectionary costs on its safety breaches, insurance, and other safety measures etc
.The benefit analysis always point to prevent cost in the case of accidents.

Emergency planning: It is the process of dealing with the accidents before it occurs,
hazards response and supporting ,and rebuilding society after natural or human made
disasters happened. Modern’s confectionary try to inform its employees in advance to
reduce the risks like in case of fire just call 111 to fire brigade and in the mean time
employees used the fire extinguisher to control the fire .Moreover ,in case of Injuries
report supervisors and use first aid and call 111 for emergency etc.

Prevention and precautions: The main stress in H&S is given on prevention and
precautions of accidents to provide safer environment to the employees .The company
provides the following procedures to inform the employees about safety preventions as;
• Follow the safety rules and the signs.
• Wear safety garments
• .Important information about the natural hazards should be displayed at all the
important places in the company.
• Have effective hazards management techniques.

First Aid: Modern’s confectionary provides the initial care to its employees in case of
any sickness and injury. First Aid training is given to all the workers at all levels .A
periodic check of medicine contained in the first aid kit is done frequently.

Promotion of Health and Safety: This company has well defined policies regarding
H&S, hazard management procedures and issues safety equipments to employees .It also
arrange some programmes for the promotion of H&S policies.