Morale Building at Work - The Employee Services - A study by Artur Victoria

The health of employees is the business of the employer, for a healthy worker is likely to be a happy worker and to produce more and better work. Illness and poor health are the direct cause of many lost man-hours.

In many concerns, at the time of employment a physical examination is given to an applicant after the interviewer and the prospective supervisor of the applicant have considered him otherwise qualified. This serves a number of purposes. First, it ascertains if the applicant is physically fitted to do the work of the job for which he is applying. Weeding out those who are not physically fitted for their work reduces the work and expenses incident to employment and employee training and those often unappreciated production costs which are bound to rise when a man is physically unfitted for the task he is doing. In addition, the physical examination protects the fellow workers from contagious and infectious diseases and the company from unjustifiable claims for compensation in cases in which physical conditions existed prior to employment. leia todo o artigo