The importance of business health and safety
Whatever sort of business you are, the underlying aim of good health and safety management is to make sure that people's safety is not put at risk and that their health is not damaged. Remember, attention to health and safety is not just about obeying the law and being socially responsible. It also makes good business sense.
By spending more time and effort when completing your health and safety checks you will not only be attracting more customers by portraying a good public image, you will also be saving yourself money and time in the bigger picture. This will have a positive overall bering on the business.
Action on health and safety can:
For a business employing staff, it is a must that they do the following in managing their health and safety:
The best way to tackle the health and safety issues is to meet them head on – make sure that you get the correct procedures in place from the beginning and then keep regular checks on the procedures to make sure that they are continuing to stay on track. Make sure all actions taken are well recorded and montiored as a means to measure how effective they are for the business as a whole.
The key to ensuring the safety and health of young people in the workplace is having a good health and safety management system which protects everyone. But young people can be at particular risk because they lack experience and trained judgement and thus they need good advice, information and supervision.
By spending more time and effort when completing your health and safety checks you will not only be attracting more customers by portraying a good public image, you will also be saving yourself money and time in the bigger picture. This will have a positive overall bering on the business.
Action on health and safety can:
- reduce your accident losses;
- cut absenteeism and lessen the damage on productivity in the event of an injury and a member of staff taking time off work;
- improve your profit and loss statement;
- help you become more efficient; and
- improve your business profile with customers, clients, insurers, enforcers etc in the positive publicity this will be able to generate for you.
For a business employing staff, it is a must that they do the following in managing their health and safety:
- complete a thorough health and safety risk assessment, fully completed and well recorded.
- make sure that the premises that your employees work in meets the minimum standards of both comfort and sanitation.
- make a note of any injury disease or accident that happens on the premises in an accident book. In some cases these situations may need to be reported to the authorities.
- If you have five employees or more then it is your responsibility to create a health and safety policy that employees must be aware of.
The best way to tackle the health and safety issues is to meet them head on – make sure that you get the correct procedures in place from the beginning and then keep regular checks on the procedures to make sure that they are continuing to stay on track. Make sure all actions taken are well recorded and montiored as a means to measure how effective they are for the business as a whole.
The key to ensuring the safety and health of young people in the workplace is having a good health and safety management system which protects everyone. But young people can be at particular risk because they lack experience and trained judgement and thus they need good advice, information and supervision.