Steps for Ensure Health and Safety at Work

The manager or HR supervisor consistently ensures that the company meets occupational health and     safety standards and that employees stick to these standards. A workplace that fit to all health and   safety standards is more likely to have more productive employees. Productivity often translates into completing more work in less time, lower overhead costs, and eventually, greater company growth. As an employee in such an environment, we can focus on our work and be confident that our employers consider health and safety a priority.

 

Steps Take to Manage Safety and Health at Work 

   1. Getting Started Successful safety cultures are led from the top, where your actions and attitudes send a message to your workers that you are serious about their health and safety. Effective safety management in a workplace requires involvement from everyone to make it work. To do this successfully, people need to understand their responsibilities and how they can meet them.

 
2.  Talking with your Team Effective consultation encourages greater awareness of issues and can lead to improved safety outcomes. Seeking workers input when making decisions shows them that you take their health and safety seriously. This includes concerns about your workers well-being because mental health is as important as physical health.
 
3.  Managing Hazards Part of managing health and safety in your workplace is controlling the risks. To do this you will need to accurately identify potential hazards. Having identified potential hazards, you all need to first consider if they can be eliminated. If it is not possible, then consider the risks involved and put practicable measures in place to control them.
 
4.  Information, Training and supervising your team Training including workplace inductions, is one of the best ways to ensure that the people in your business are safe while at work. It provides workers with information about the potential risks associated with their works, the safety policies and procedures you have in place, as well as how to work safely and deal with emergencies. It also ensures that your workers understand their work environment, their job expectations and employment conditions.
 
5.  Maintaining a safe workplace It is everyone’s responsibility to maintain a safe workplace, regular communications between management and staff is crucial to keeping safety a priority. Adding safety as an item to your regular meetings so staff feel comfortable bringing up any issues as they arise.
 
6.  Keeping Records Written records of your work health and safety activities, near misses and incidents are important for your business. These records can help demonstrate what you have done to manage safety in your workplace. This can be important if an incident occurs requiring investigation.
 
7.  Monitoring and reviewing to improve Managing and improving health and safety needs to be ongoing. Safety processes and operation evolve with time, and workers and equipment can come and go, changing the risks in your workplace. When you actively seek to identify hazards, inform, train and supervise your team, you can be confident that you are managing the risks and the people exposed to them.

Conclusion :

   In healthy and safe work environment, eventually employees have stick in the success of the program as health and safety is own responsibility. Keep actively encourage employee engage if you want your program succeed. Make sure to feel people accountable and does their part.

    References :

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