Preventing Risks at Work Place Before They Result into Injuries
So you're the safety manager at the work place? This article will help you reduce learn how to reduce accident risks which result into injuries at work places.
There are many risks and hazards that can affect the safety and eventually health of health of a worker at the work environment. As a safety manager, you need to take into account precautions before these hazards translate into injuries. Of course these precautions have to be continuous in the process of minimizing risks at the work environment. The most effective way of reducing fatal injuries at the work place is early identification and fixing of those potential risks.
Potential risks at
the work place
When we talk about safety at work place, many believe safety precautions can only be vital in industrial companies. This has indeed resulted into many fatal accidents and injuries at work places as non industrial companies often ignore vital safety precautions at work places.
Every work place may have different potential risks depending on the nature of activity being performed. However, there are risks which are general and every organization or company needs to take keen attention to them. Today we want focus on one common risk that cuts across all organizations i.e.
Slip accidents
This is a common risk that every work place is faced with. Whether it is a product manufacturing
company, service providing agency, consulting firm or any other type of business,
it will not escape from this particular risk. Slip accidents occur mostly on
slippery surfaces. Of course slippery surface doesn't mind whether one is an MD
of the organization. If it means sliding and falling down, it can happen to
anybody.
Slip accidents can be costly to a business. Imagine a worker sliding and
getting a serious injury? This means that particular worker may not be able to
execute his/her duties until he cures. Now production or service delivery has
to be affected and the company has to speed lots of money taking care of
medical bills. Look at it another way, supposing your involves walk in clients
and they keep getting accidents whenever they enter your premises? I am sure
the outcomes are known to you
How can companies
prevent grip on slip accidents
This kind of accidents can only be prevented by effectively using non
slip products. You may be wondering what
these products are? These are non/anti slip products that increase on the adhesion
of surfaces on any kind whether indoor or outdoor thereby preventing humans
from unnecessary slipping. You can apply
them on bathrooms, toilet floors, office floors among many more surfaces.
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