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Did you know that in the United States, a worker is injured on the job once every seven seconds? That adds up to 12,300 injuries each day, or a staggering 4,500,000 every year.
As a small business owner, you owe your employees a safe working environment. Not only will maintaining a safe workplace lower the odds that you will have to pay out workers compensation claims, but it’s just the right thing to do.
If you run your own business, the likeliness of you knowing about Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is quite high. Last year, the PPE Directive 89/686/EEC4 was replaced by the Regulation 2016/425 in a bid to improve health and safety at work.
However, a lot of managers will be trying to find out how this will impact them — especially if they operate both solely in the UK or within the European Union. Opposed to the former directive, the new regulation is a binding legislative act that must be applied in its entirety across the EU without requiring separate national legislation.
If your small business has a fleet of vehicles, it’s essential to know details about each car, truck, or van. Decades ago, the primary solution was to stay in contact with each driver via telephone or even a pager, but now, the options are significantly more high-tech due to software. Several fleet management solutions have emerged in the market that take advantage of advanced technology such as GPS, sensors, etc. to make managing the fleet safe as well as efficient.
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.
