Occupational safety and health are of primary concern in risk management. Ensuring that your employees are protected from injury and illness benefits not only them but your company as well. An effective health and safety management plan leads to increased productivity, employee retention and morale, reduced financial losses, and a better reputation for your business. …
This complete guide to employee safety will teach you everything you need to know to improve health and safety systems in your business.
Promoting safe behavior in the workplace is a key element in safety management, as well as building and maintaining a positive safety culture within the organization. It’s through behavior-based safety that comprehensive systems and procedures will be applied effectively and turned into reality. No matter how good your safety policies are on paper, as long…
Most of us know that “prevention is much better than cure.” However, when it comes to business, not all organizations take this adage to heart. In fact, 1 out of 10 small business employees in the United States feel that their own employers do not take occupational health and safety seriously. Also, just 87% of…
When you’re managing a business, the last thing you would want to deal with is a workplace accident, injury, or illness. Such negative events will not only lead to physical harm but also unnecessary costs, stress, and added hardships for both employees and employers. First of all, workplace accidents can lead to productivity loss. When…
All workplaces, regardless of what type of business is run, are littered with occupational risks. These are workplace risks and hazards that carry the potential to cause injury, illness, or even death if not discovered and appropriately addressed. Generally speaking, occupational hazards are sorted into six categories: Safety hazards Chemical hazards Biological hazards Physical hazards…
There are an estimated three billion workers around the globe at this very moment. Some of them work behind a desk, while others are in the field, a laboratory, a doctor’s office, a classroom, and some work in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, or any other of the hundreds of thousands of employment possibilities. It doesn’t matter…
Every employee, out of approximately three billion employees across the globe, is exposed to some type of occupational risk. Regardless of the job – whether they’re working in an operating room, on a construction site, in an office, a classroom, or elsewhere – every occupation comes with a set of hazards and risks. These occupational…
Now that the whole world has been battling the dangerous COVID-19 respiratory virus for months, providing a safe and healthy work environment has become the top priority. Numerous businesses struggling due to the adverse consequences of the Coronavirus lockdown were forced to let go of entire health and safety teams to cut costs. As a…
Numerous small and medium-sized business owners have recognized the importance of creating safety policies that will engage employees and promote health and safety practices, ensuring occupational safety and health. Namely, reliable and people-oriented safety policies and a safe work environment are closely related to increased productivity, profit, and business success. First, creating an environment that…