Work related stresses and strains leave today’s professionals hard-pressed with health risks. These occupational hazards claim a lot both from the employees and employers.
Essay 159
• Whose responsibility do you think it is to cut down on these hazards?
• How best can it be minimized? Make a few suggestions.

Today’s professionals are aware that there is hardly any occupation sans a few hazards. Obviously, the job of minimizing these hazards needs to be shared, not so equally though, between the employer and the employee. There are ways to achieve this goal.

Whose responsibility is it anyway? I feel that it is primarily the job of the employers to observe that their workforce remains maximum free of occupation related stress and strains. Though it is not completely possible, it is possible to a greater extent. For example, a hazard-prone employee will show repeated absenteeism, and sooner than later he or she will be a burden to the set up.

However, we cannot expect the employer to be solely responsible. The employees themselves need to be conscious of this fact. Because, being exposed to hazards is harmful primarily to their health. For example, a company can do without a few stressed and strained employees by hiring fresh ones. What would happen to the family of those ones who fall sick of their work related hazards?

Anyway, there are a couple of suggestions to overcome this stalemate. First of all, employers should internalize the fact that their employees are their primary assets. So they should be given flexible working hours, healthy working environment and service based health care incentives. When it comes to employees, they must try their best to maintain better work life balance so that there will be time for work, life and health. Money they may earn out of stressing and straining themselves may not be enough to make good the health risks.

In short, since there is no occupation without hazards, both the employers and employees need to be responsible each other for their mutual well being. I am sure the suggestions I have made are of some value in this direction.

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