Heath and Safety

Health and Safety: The United States Post Office

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Health and Safety: The United States Post Office

Introduction

Employee safety is very vital in a post office just like in any other organization. Based on this, it is important for employers to take necessary measures to ensure their employees work in safe environments. Because businesses operate in different industries, the U.S. Post Office Department should meet safety standards obligatory for the respective industry. Therefore, it should have a health and safety plan that will ensure the well-being of its staff. The main goal of this organization is minimizing the number of possible accidents to zero. The Post Office has a safety program that ensures that employees can manage any emergency that may occur in the work premises. The workers have the right to be involved actively in postal services and the health and safety program to create a favorable working environment. The paper analyzes the four phases of emergency management, which may \ be applied in the U.S. Post Office Department.

Emergency Management

Knowing the structure and the role of a post office to any community that can help makes planning can be done easily. Emergency managers and policy makers ought to have regular meetings with local postmasters to understand how communities utilize postal services. Thus, taking into account this information, emergency management can planned based on the next phases that include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The phases present a continuum, and actions taken in one phase will affect the effectiveness of measures in the other three phases. It means that each phase feeds the next, and a failure to act in one phase will influence the next stage negatively.

Mitigation

It involves taking actions and sustaining them to ensure that emergency risks are been reduced, and...