Long-Term Commitment to Improving Safety On-The-Job

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Promoting safety on-the-job is the best commitment an employer can make and can reduce premiums on Workers Comp insurance. Here are 5 tips to improve safety in your office.

Make a Commitment
If you are going to successfully improve safety in your workforce you will be making a long-term commitment. Each injury costs you money, both in higher insurance premiums and productivity. Get employees involved and get feedback.

Establish Rules and Procedures
Start by establishing a set of rules and procedures for employees to follow. Different work environments come with different risks. OSHA is one national organization that promotes and helps employers by releasing detailed safety information for many types of industries. If you can’t establish the rules yourself consider hiring an expert to help.

Create Promotional Materials
Create training manuals, posters and place visual diagrams throughout the office, bathrooms and wherever your employees will be. Make them prominent so that your employees see them on a daily basis. Posters of an injury are shocking and remind workers of the dangers that they face. Visual diagrams can help depict a proper method or procedure that the employee should follow when performing their job. Developing training manuals will help ensure that there is a unified voice for your employees to receive proper training from an authority on safety.

Reinforce Safety in the Workforce
Give employees positive reinforcement. Offer prizes and rewards with real value something as simple as a gift card to a restaurant. Reinforce those that are safe in the workplace so that they continue to pay attention to it and it will encourage other employees to do the same.

Identify Problems and Retrain
Identify where problems are happening, whether it is one aspect of the job or a specific employee. A single violation is different than a continuous problem. Find out where the problem is, document it and retrain that individual or the entire group. Continue to retrain until safety procedures in that area or by that employee are followed correctly.

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