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How To Apply Health & Safety Practices In The Workplace

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Developing and implementing effective health and safety practices takes an ongoing commitment from both the human resource department and the managers that directly oversee the employees. Motivating employees to use health and safety practices requires motivating them to break out of bad habits. The result is well worth the effort, as applying and enforcing health and safety practices in the workplace results in lowered accidents and less worker’s compensation claims.

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1.Develop health and safety rules and best practices. Write these rules down, and make them available to all managers and employees.
2.Set goals for meeting health and safety standards. These goals can be as simple as achieving 100 consecutive accident-free days or lowering the number of safety violations per month.

3.Develop employee incentives for meeting departmental health and safety goals. While you would hope employees would be safe for the sake of being safe, this is not generally the rule. Many employees have developed shortcuts that cause health or safety risks. An incentive program is often the fastest way to make them willing to obey the standard rules.
4.Develop a process of disciplinary action for employees that do not meet the health and safety goals. Most commonly, these disciplinary plans involve verbal and written warnings that lead to termination of employment if the situation does not improve. Managers should also have to meet the goals and guidelines set for their department. Likewise, hold them accountable for repeated offenses.
5.Hold a health and safety meeting with all employees in the organization. Clearly and thoroughly explain the newly established practices, goals and disciplinary action.
6.Provide health and safety training to ensure that all employees have been formally trained. It is a very common mistake for the human resource department to assume that supervisors provide proper training on the job. The best way to ensure that every employees understands the health and safety practices is by documenting completion of a formal training program. This will also help protect the company against litigation resulting from workplace accidents.
7.Place reminder notices around the workplace. Focus on clear signage around areas that are frequent causes of health or safety violations. This visual reminder is often enough to cause employees to employ best practices.
8.Follow through on any incentives or disciplinary action. If the company fails to make good on its promises, it will only show employees that shortcuts are acceptable and rules are not enforced.
9.Review the reports of violations as well as the health and safety polices as needed. Make any necessary changes to fine tune the program.
10.Hold regular health and safety meetings to announce policy changes and introduce new health and safety topics of concern. These meetings will show the employees that health and safety are an ongoing concern, which will prevent them from slipping back into risky shortcuts.

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