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10 Things to Avoid to Make Your Workplace Safer
In order to create the safest workplace possible, sometimes it is all about what you need to stop doing.
10 Things to Avoid to Make Your Workplace Safer
In order to create the safest workplace possible, sometimes it is all about what you need to stop doing.
- Quick Hiring: Hiring workers to fill an immediate vacancy if you are pressed for time with an approaching deadline. Slowing down the hiring process allows you more time to get to know the potential employee and determine if they are right for the job.
- Rushed Training: Properly training your employees allows you more time to foster the ideals your county values. Proper training ensures safety, accuracy, timeliness, or quality control and will also reduce accidents and injuries.
- Lack of Communication: A lack of communications can be deadly. A few ways to combat lack of communications are to have monthly meetings and Toolbox Talks.
- Clutter: Having clutter around the workspace and generally not keeping a clutter free workplace can lead to unnecessary and unavoidable accidents like trips, slips, and falls.
- Lack of a Safety Plan: Identify the emergency exits, have an established escape route, know who to contract if a situation goes awry, stay calm, and take control of the situation.
- Bare Walls: Color codes, posters, labels, and signs that warn employees of potential hazards and how to combat them should the situation turn dire is an excellent way to promote safety in the workplace.
- Demonizing Safety: Make safety fun while understanding that safety is extremely necessary. The more positive a person’s outlook on a situation, the more likely that person is to comply with the situation.
- Using Too Much Force: Keep the workplace ergonomically safe by avoiding jobs that put unnecessary strain on the body. Inform employees of the following ergonomic hazards: Improperly adjusted workstations and chairs; frequent lifting; poor posture; constant awkward movements; frequent force, and vibration.
- Lack of Reporting Unsafe Behaviors: Enforcing or pressuring employees to let unsafe behavior go unreported aids in the destruction of safety culture and sends the wrong message to employees.
- Alcohol and Drug Use: Workers under the influence while at work account of roughly three percent of all fatalities that occur on the job. They are also a danger for the employees around them.
