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Kevin Jones
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This is an area where OHS, HR and personal obligation overlap. Each employee has an obligation to not expose their colleagues or the public to a hazardous situation or an unsafe workplace. If an employee considered themselves unfit for work due to a hangover, they should stay at home on sick leave. The HR officer or safety manager, seeing someone "under the weather" at the start of the day, should send the employee home on sick leave, to satisfy their OHS obligations.
Too frequently society turns a blind eye to the effects of alcohol as it is part of the culture. The risk of an impaired worker creating a hazard for everyone else at that workplace is too high to be acceptable. Eliminating the hazard from the workplace should be the priority. Then treatment of the cause can begin.
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Nigel DuPree
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VD (Vigilance Decremation) or any other physiological impairment to an individuals finctionality whether through feeling unwell, eye or headache founded in screen fatigue, hangover whatever fundamentaly increases the inherent risk of omission, error and misjudgement.
If screen fatigue results in a drop in performance of around 20% and is reported y 58% of DSE operators that has to dwarf the 13 billion pounds in lost productivity due to sickies.
A 20% drop in performance in a net 6 hour working day equates to approx 1 hour per day or 33 days per annum and if we were to assume a similar loss of production due to self-medication of one type or another then employers could quite easily justify the cost/benefit of giving everyone a two holiday in the Bahamas and still be in profit.
i wish i had thought of that before I think I'll try that on my boss....lol
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Nigel DuPree
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Forgot to add in savings resulting from reduced errors in time and money let alone sick leave from stress or slip and trip injury because suffering fatigue and not as vigilant so bound to have had a slip, trip or other mishap along the way.
Better and better I'll have a look on the web to see if can find a good cruise deal now.
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