Ensuring safety at work is one of the major preoccupations that every employee should fulfill, irrespective of the nature and size of the business, operation or organization.
In the UK, the government has laid down specific instructions regarding health and safety of workers in an organizational set up.
The HSE is also responsible to check out that to which extent these guidelines are followed.
Unfortunately, despite each of the cautionary measures taken there are indeed certain flaws in implementing these policies in practical life.
Due to this reason, every day, according to the latest estimation, almost 90 workers throughout the country suffer from certain types of injuries and in certain cases the ultimate outcome is fatal.
Going deeper in the scenario would unveil that not all employers are sincere enough to implement the correct protective measures.
The chance of making injury claims increases substantially if liability of the owner is proven, be it in form of negligence to improve infrastructure of the entire workplace or conscious effort to escape the expenses for implementing the safety measures.
While the health and other safety issues for workers matter quite highly in any field of business, owners of businesses as well as organizations should also know that negative publicity of a company is extremely bad for its growth prospect.
Such unfortunately incidents can be stopped easily, provided the employer is ready to evaluate the necessary steps for preventing the accidents at work, along with the responsibility to upgrade the existing safety measures after a regular interval.
Here follows certain points that may reduce the rate of workplace related accidents, ensure health and safety of workers and consequently may enhance the scope of enhancing reputation of the company in market.
• Risk Identification: The first step in achieving the goal is to identify the potential risk factors that a workplace environment may incorporate.
Connecting these problems with health and safety issue of workers will help employers to understand better that the kind of injuries the employees may sustain.
They should be taking the necessary measures to reduce the risk considerably.
• Providing the Correct Marking: The employers should be dedicated and concerned enough to mark the areas of danger with proper signage from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
This is the best way to notify the employees and warn them of the dangers that may encounter.
This means you have fulfilled you responsibility regarding warning the employees to necessary measures to keep them at harm's away.
• Conducting Safety Management Sessions: Educating your employees about the correct thing to do in case of an emergency situation reduces the risk of life changing situations.
While you are implementing certain newer measures or upgrading the older safety management system, tell them of the changes that have taken place.
Unless the workers are aware of the changes, they cannot change the course of action according to the improved measure, which means the chance of workplace accidents remain high.
While thinking about safety measures of the company, considering the aforesaid aspects will surely save your workers to suffer from any complicated and risky situation.
This in turn will also save your company from paying huge amount of injury claims to the aggrieved parties.