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You wouldn’t dream of operating a business without making sure you had the right fire protection and suppression equipment in place. The thing to remember is that fire safety is not something you can set in place and then ignore. It’s an ongoing process to ensure all of your strategies for fire suppression fire extinguisher cylinder refilling and other aspects of the plan are kept up to date. Here are a few of the reasons why you want to keep everything current.
Workplace safety training is hands down the most cost-effective way to protect your employees – a most valuable asset. It provides workers with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to perform their roles in ways that are safe for both themselves and their colleagues. The overall outcome is a safer working environment that is largely free of accidents and other workplace hazards.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been offering various workplace safety training programs for decades. Undertaking these programs can be a huge boon to any individual worker or company. Here are five reasons why you would want to consider an OSHA training course.
Workplace inspections are the best method to ensure that your business is meeting safety standards. Simple and effective, they cover both procedures and the physical environment, identifying risks and allowing you to address them. Failure to spend some time and effort now in performing inspection can lead to much bigger issues with potential for great financial loss.
You are looking at this article because you have precious and expensive valuables you wish to protect. Whether they are heirlooms that have been passed down to you or a rare collection of gold items, opting for a safe deposit box is the way forward.
There are several reasons why it’s safer and more cost effective to hold your precious items at the deposit box rather than at your home. You even have other secure options open to you such as those offered by vault facilities.
Security and safety are important concerns in any workplace setting, but the proportions grow exponentially in manufacturing facilities. As hard as you and your site safety team work to create and maintain a safe and secure work environment, the fact is that working around heavy machinery and large equipment with large moving parts is necessary but incredibly dangerous without proper rules, regulations and strict compliance.
If you are like most places in the country today, there are only so many parking spaces to go around. With more and more people driving, these spaces are at a premium and they need to be protected for the visitors and tenants that they were intended for. Gone are the days when people could easily find a coveted spot, no matter what day or night they arrived. In addition, cars need to be kept save and the lot free from intruders. This is why parking control systems have evolved over the years, and they are now available in several different structures that allow parking to be both safe and convenient once again.
For employers, the cost of implementing health and safety initiatives can be expensive, and when they aren’t adhered to properly – they can cripple the internal economics of a business.
These costs can be divided into two sets – ‘human costs’ and ‘financial costs’; the first set focuses on the financial impact of illness or injury to an individual, whereas the second set concerns the business and the costs incurred because of an employee’s illness or injury.
In the UK, it is estimated that annually between 2015/16, 622,000 workers were injured at work, and 528,000 workers suffered a new case of ill health that they believed was brought on as a result of their working conditions. If these estimations continue to rise annually, then the financial costs to businesses could be staggering.
Together with Nifty Lifts, suppliers of access platforms to workplaces that implement stringent health and safety procedures, we assess the costs of health and safety mishaps – and how businesses can avoid them in the future to help save money.
Is your business a safe place to work in? Unfortunately, many workplaces are potential death traps and many people’s lives are put at risk. However, some simple steps and precautions can dramatically change this situation and make your company a safer place for your employees. Below are some of the ways you can ensure that your business is safer for everyone who works there.
Most business owners think that their company provides a safe work environment for employees and perhaps even clients who might be visiting the business premises. But are they right? Every year there are thousands of PI claims against business owners with employees rightfully or wrongly arguing that they were forced to operate in an unsafe work environment. These cases are, as it turns out, incredibly easy to win because the law actually favors the employee. Indeed, the situation has become so severe that in the UK the government is acting to put restrictions on PI claims.
For the business owner, this just means it’s important to be absolutely sure that your business is as safe as it can be.
Health and safety legislation has made modern workplaces far safer than they were 100 years ago. Major accidents and incidents are rare, but accidents do happen, and small business owners and managers need to have systems in place to deal with the aftermath of such an event. Failure to do so can have serious consequences on your business, employees and yourself. To deal effectively with such incidents you need to understand what you need to do before and after the incident. Here are few tips that will help.
