What are the most important things businesses need to do to implement good safety practices in the workplace?
Most companies have safety policies and plans, but for many of them, those documents are little more than dust collectors rather than a functional part of an organization’s operations. At many companies, the safety manager is an important person only when a major accident occurs. Companies need to understand this: The ‘right way’ to do business is the ‘safe way’ to do business. You need to do what you can to create a culture of safety within a company to prevent accidents, not just to respond when an accident occurs. What are some of the factors that can work against the establishment of a good work-place safety program? The first would be not being specific in spelling out the roles and responsibilities in terms of safety for everyone, from the top of an organization down to the employee level. Second, in too many cases, a company’s work safety plan is not an actual working document and that can result in a lack of enforcement of the proper safety procedures. To create a safe workplac
