Occupational Health and Safety Issues in Social Marketing

This book Occupational Health and Safety in Social Marketing is prepared keeping in view all researcher academician and industrialist. The objective of this book is to make the role of social marketing in today''s business organization. Social marketing has been contributing historically for a better application of public policy health and safety environment education and human rights. Specifically four major areas that social marketing efforts have focused over the years are health promotion injury prevention environmental protection and community mobilization. Social marketing at an industrial organization emphasizes exchange of ideas between the target audience (i.e. the employees) and the marketer (i.e. the employer). This exchange requires that the employees be persuaded to give up the unsafe behaviors that they are accustomed to to gain an enhanced level of safety with a greater likelihood of preventing injuries in the workplace. In an organizational context the internal users are treated as customers and marketing inside the organization is an essential part of delivering value to the organization and ultimately to the end customer.