Workplace Health and Safety - It's Your Business
Why is practising good workplace health and safety vital for business?
- Protects your business and reputation
- Reduces your insurance premiums and business running costs
- Helps to protect your workforce
- Reduces absenteeism from sickness and accident
- Employees are healthier, happier and better motivated
- Improves your standing among competitors and suppliers
- Indicates to others that you're a responsible employer
- Increases productivity
- Enhances company image
- Reduces the threat of legal action should something go wrong
- It's a vital ingredient for a successful and profitable business
What can happen if your business gets it wrong?
- Sickness, injury or death of workers
- Workers could suffer loss of earnings
- Directors, managers and supervisors can be prosecuted
- Financial implications could be substantial
- Workers and their families can carry the burden for after-care costs following an injury or accident for years
- Loss of productivity and significant business disruption
- You may incur expensive claims for damages, etc.
Can you afford to get it wrong?
- Before embarking on your own Workplace Health and Safety strategy it's essential to get the bigger picture from qualified Health and Safety consultants.
Here are some key questions to ask yourself:
- Is my business covered?
- Do I have a company Safety Policy?
- Do I get advice from a competent Health and Safety consultancy?
- Do I know everything I should about Health and Safety at Work?
- Have Workplace Safety Risk Assessments been carried out?
- Do I have Asbestos (the silent killer) in my building?
- What affects the business and employees welfare in terms of Health and Safety law?
- Would I be prepared to let the company be named and shamed through a breach of Health and Safety law and regulations that could easily be avoided?
- Can I afford not to invest in the safety of my workforce?
See our training calendar for courses in workplace health and safety officer, workplace health and safety representative, risk management or even a Diploma in OH&S.