Editorial: Health and Safety Issues of Employees in Family Firms

Abstract

Worker health and safety issues have been the subject of extensive study, including when, why, and how they arise (1, 2). However, the reasons behind the health and safety issues of the employees working in family-owned firms are still under-explored. A business or entity owned and managed by the members of a single-family is known as a “family business firm” (3). The family firms' operations and ownership are transferred from generation to generation. Usually, more than one generation is involved in the day-to-day operations and management of the business. The family firms perform with limited financial and other resources and have a small network (4). Thus, family firms have limited resources to facilitate their employees at the workplace, such as improper lighting, hygiene issues, an overfilled workplace, and the absence of facilities such as safety tools and safety instruction boards. Healthy food and clean water are also serious issues for workers at the workplace in family firms (5).