The Role of Child Safety Seats in Preventing Injury and Death

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after” (Lindbergh, nd). Numerous studies have asserted that communication is the essential key that builds up the accurate infrastructure of management within organisations. In health and safety oral communication is one of the most important aspects in building and maintaining systems (RF Person, 1993).

Communication of information in the health, safety and environment (HSE) field occurs within two different mediums including oral and the written form. Communication is critical in maintaining safety within different work environments. This can include emergency and general communications in the form of safety information or else communication between the team during maintenance of work and operations.

HSE officers offer an expert knowledge and ability with the purpose of furthering a positive health and safety environment. This represents a key role in assisting to control all sorts of risks that associated with various work activities. In general, HSE officer based on a range of organisations from multinationals to small consultancies and work in partnership with employees, employers and trade unions.

The primary function of a HSE officer focuses on implementing the organisation's health and safety policy; in the direction to ensure that the organisation is compliant with health and safety legislation to minimise operational losses and occupational hazards, which present on workstation. Normally, officers spend extraordinary hours on communicating by phone calls, conduct inspections and present presentations to senior management and staffs. This could be very challenging when dealing with multiple site and safety cultures.

The rapid use of digital...

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...ge can make the work more stable with the aim to establish an interconnected relationship between staffs (Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, 2006).

To put it briefly, it’s obvious that globalisation and the rapid development of technology nowadays, has made intercultural communication inevitable as compared to other interaction means. Various empirical studies have concluded to argue that intercultural communication has aroused great interest in various aspects of life. This reflects the importance of communication in assisting the development of worldwide requirements (Gitimu PN, 2010). All things considered, oral communication is still the most efficient means of expressing opinions and information within any workplace. Even in an age of technology such as these days, no other tool can replace it as the human need to share, meet and keep on living safely.