We all want to know how our company compares to others within our industry. An easy way yo assess your safety efforts compared to your competition is by figuring out your Incident Rate (IR).
An emergency action plan guides employees in their roles and responsibilities while accounting for all personnel, and visitors. If ensuring the safety to those around your business during an emergency is important to you, then you company should have an Emergency Action Plan.
Should I go in to work or do I stay home after a disaster hits? Are we open for business? Am I an essential employee? These are typical questions employees often ask themselves when a disaster hits after operational hours and, impacts operations. Communication with staff before a disaster is often over looked, but can be addressed easily.
Having the different types of insurance coverage and categorizing the hazards and the controls will reduce or eliminate the potential for property damage or injuries to workers and guests. Doing so will help reduce the risks and prevent costly losses in the process.
Do you have a workplace safety program? If you ever get audited by HIOSH, one of the first items they will ask you to produce is a written safety program.
Injuries can be costly for both the employer and employees. Strain and sprain injury prevention can save your company money while keeping employees safe.
Eliminate the hazards of wet walking surfaces, cracked or uneven walking surfaces with the slip, trip, fall prevention tips in this article.
If you agree that communication is the key to success, then understand that a safety committee can be a perfect venue for a loss prevention program.
In regards to building an effective Safety Culture to lower loss costs, developing a Safety Team approach will get you the results that you desire.