It is vital that business owners provide a safe working environment for their employees. In addition to being a legal requirement, making safety a priority should also prevent staff from hurting themselves and missing time off work, stop any injury claims and help staff to feel happy and safe while at work. So, what steps can businesses take to reduce the chance of injuries?
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Protective Equipment
For those that work in hazardous industries such as construction, manufacturing and industrial, protective equipment is a must. You need to make sure that all staff have access to the protective equipment that they need for their role, such as goggles, helmets, gloves and anything else which could prevent an injury.
Training
Training is also incredibly important across all industries. You need to train staff on how they can work safely each day and prevent injury, which should stop anyone from hurting themselves as well as allow people to work with confidence and without supervision.
Implement A Health & Safety Policy
A health and safety policy is also essential as a way to set out your approach to health and safety and outline what your aims are with health and safety, who is in charge of health and safety and what practical arrangements are in place to achieve your health and safety aims.
Observe & Listen
Often, it is hard for a manager to identify potential dangers and risks in the workplace. It is the employees that are actually involved in these processes each day, which means that often they are more aware of potential dangers. This is why you need to encourage them to come forward and share ideas for how the workplace could be made safer. Injuries in the workplace that could have been prevented could result in an employee speaking with personal injury solicitors that will result in a claim along with time off work, so you will want to make sure that you listen to your staff and take action when they have a safety concern.
Equipment Maintenance
You must also think about the equipment that your staff uses each day and ensure that maintenance is carried out on a regular basis. In addition to stopping any potential injuries from occurring when using faulty machinery, this should also prevent costly downtime too.
These are the main areas that you need to focus on in order to prevent injuries from happening in the workplace, which you will want to avoid at all costs for a number of different reasons.
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