The impact of Organizational Health and Safety Guidelines on Workers Performance. A Case Study of Dow Chemical Company, Dubai UAE

ABSTRACT

This research determined the impact of safety culture on individual workers performance, as an alternative to improving organizational performance and staying afloat, the ever-changing market. The study established if any relationship exists between organizational health and safety and workers’ performance and how this could have been a result of gap in health safety guidelines and relating it with workers performance. Deducing the real impact of organizational health and safety guidelines on workers performance, was then sought through identifying employee training skill gap in the Human Resource Department (HRD), and management’s commitment to workers’ safety in winning hearts. If this would in turn increases their performance, because good safety performance would reduce accident rate and (uninsured) costs.

Keywords— Organizational health and safety, workers’ performance

4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities

ABSTRACT

The world is moving towards a new development era where digital, biological, and physical technologies are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution and they have achieved an extraordinary development in their respective fields. This paper thus aimed to discuss the 4th industrial revolution, the technological drivers of this revolution, the challenges, and opportunities they bring along and how the organizations around the world are responding to them in terms of technology, firm innovation and creativity. The study applied an ethnographic approach and collected data through contextual interviews. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with three participants of Middle East Propulsion Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The collected data was categorized under four themes and later analysed using NVivo. The study findings revealed that there is awareness on the Fourth Industrial Revolution but not to an extent to fully make use of the endless opportunities that it brings along. Apart from opportunities the organizations must face the challenges and obstacles that come in during its implementation such as security and privacy, skilled workforce, and financial investments. The study concluded that the companies must come up with potential solutions to overcome the hurdles and barriers by devising strategies which are long and short-term both along with specific training programs aimed to acquire the required workforce needed in the implementation of Industry 4.0.

Keywords Industry 4.0, cybersecurity, privacy, technological drivers, challenges, and opportunities