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The Use of Audit and Quality Management Systems within Occupational Health
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The Use of Audit and Quality Management Systems within Occupational Health
Public safety is essential in all aspects and especially in the health sector. It can be achieved through a combination of several aspects relating to management such as quality management systems and audits. Every organisation to ensure there are efficiency and effectiveness require the above management features. Occupational health is not an exception. In this pursuit, all health-related systems should be checked and managed by applying the above policies. Their importance is to ensure proper use of resources and above ensure the provision of services (CHATERERED MANAGEMENT I., 2014). Since the health sector is serious in the provision of health care services, audit and quality management are the critical solutions to ensure that the above is met easily.
As Paton, explains, the system cannot be effective unless proper arrangement and preparations are made before ensuring that what is being implemented comes in place to work towards enhancing improved health services. The first step in doing this is to find a plan by setting up management strategies to achieve and come up with the best managerial practices to improve on the quality (PATON, 2012). Then introduce the auditing procedure by involving professionals in the field who can come into the organisation and perform an external audit to ensure that all the books of accounts are kept up to date including the inventories.
A service level agreement has to be developed such that, the management to set an agreed level of standards to ensure that high quality services are offered to the clients. In this way, the administration will be able to pinpoint the weak points that are providing low levels of the stated service.
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PATON, N., 2012. Creating service level agreements for occupational health. (Online). DW Media: Sutton. Available from https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/creating-service-level-agreements-for-occupational-health/
CHARTERED MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE., 2014. Managing Projects (online) Corby: CHI. available from; https://www.managers.org.uk/~/media/Files/checklist/chk-035-managing_projects.pdf