Employee training
Employee training is an essential additive for any successful project. Regular employee training ensures readiness and awareness among the workers. Ricci et al. (2016) researched to establish the effectiveness of workplace health and safety training in influencing employees and the employees’ health and workplace behavior. Federico Ricci is a member of the department of arts and literature, history, and social studies, at the University of Parma, Italy. They used secondary sources for their research, including previously published works on how job training could prevent occupational injuries. They established that job training impacted the attitudes positively and working knowledge of the employees.
Sun Coast conducts employee training on all new job sites before employees can be allowed to start working on the sites. Employee training is effective in imparting the desired work knowledge to the employees. As a result, the employees will spend less time to complete the job when they fully understand what it entails. Safety trainings need to be improved in terms of increasing expenditures on them to ensure their effectiveness. This will help Sun Coast in reducing the amount of lost-time hours in accomplishing the duties. According to Ricci et al. (2016), improving health and safety training increases work knowledge among the employees. This positively contributes to enhancing efficiency in performing the task.
Employee health
Remediation works are physically demanding with a risk of inhalation of toxic chemical substances. Different sites have varying exposure to hazards and hence the need to understand the impacts the disclosure may have on the health of the workers. Sanjel et al. (2017) conducted a study that highlighted the relationship between respiratory illnesses and exposure to inhalable particulate matter among brick kiln employees. They used questionnaires to evaluate how often the employees experienced respiratory complications. One way ANOVA technique was used to compare the level of particulate matter in different working environments. Regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the level of particulate matter and respiratory symptoms.
The results indicated that respiratory infections were high among workers who are exposed to particulate matter, which are highly inhalable. These findings relate to the issues affecting the Sun Coast as workers in job sites with particulate matter of fewer microns will tend to get sick quickly. This corresponds to the number of sick days observed in those worksites per year. I believe the research had a favorable implication in helping worksite managers understand the impact on workers, and make necessary efforts to improve the quality of working environments.
Workplace sound exposure
Most working environments are potential sources of hearing-related complications. Sakunkoo &Kittikong (2019) researched to examine hearing abilities, the health effects, and sound levels in different working departments in a pulp and paper industry, and they sort to establish how sound level affected the hearing ability. Dr. Pornpun Sakunkoo is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Public Health in Khon Kean University. Sound level meters and questionnaires were used to collect data. The sound levels were established to be between 75.5 to 89.2 decibels. They found out that workers who had been subjected to the sound for long exhibited high hearing impairments.
The research relates to the issues of sound level exposure found in the Sun Coast. Some working sites for Sun Coast contracts have sound decibels of up to 120. This necessitates the need for the Sun Coat to consider controlling the issues. According to Sakunkoo &Kittikong (2019), understanding the effects of sound exposure can inform appropriate measures by the organization. The study helped the organizations to take monitory action to conserve the hearing abilities of their employees. They also recommended that the organization should advance hearing conservation programs that would reduce the incidence of hearing loss.