Research the Role of an Administrator HLT 308V

Research the Role of an Administrator HLT 308V

Research the Role of an Administrator HLT 308V

Topic 2 DQ 2

Incidents in the workplace, especially in a healthcare setting, entail compensation that can only be handled by administrators and managers and not non-management staff. Managers and administrators possess the legal and moral mandate to ensure high quality care for patients and improving the overall workplace conditions for healthcare providers. The managerial impact on workplace safety is based on the legal and regulatory requirements as outlined in workers’ compensation laws. Risk management teams and experts in an organization provide guidelines, policies on ergonomics and work safety that ensure the safety of employees and even patients to protect the organization against losses and financial liabilities that may arise from legal suits or actions (Gray et al., 2019). Workers’ compensation entails administrative obligations that managers in such roles should undertake and not non-management staff or nurses.

Incidents of injured employees or workers must be addressed by top level managers who review such events and proactively work to improve the ergonomics situation in the workplace. The role of non-management staff like nurses and any support staff is to report the incident promptly for the managerial individuals to take necessary and comprehensive actions. Upon reporting, the affected employee should also follow existing policies on such incidents (Min et a., 2019). The role of the administration staff is to offer guidance to any employee who has compensation issues like injuries on the necessary steps to attain this goal based on organizational policies and existing regulations.

My recommendation is that organizations must develop ergonomics policies and practitioners who have the role of ensuring workplace safety. Further, healthcare entities must invest in risk management to ensure that employees’ safety is improved based on best practices. Such approaches will ensure that there are robust policies based on ADA and workers’ compensation laws to attain compliance (Smith, 2021). The implication is that each type of employees in the organization must deal with safety issues based on their roles and responsibilities.