Regardless of the industry in which you work, there is always the opportunity for injury that can take a big chunk from your bottom line. As a business owner or employee being out of commission due to an injury can have a devastating effect on your income.
With a few simple steps, you can make your workplace safer, whether it is from a paper cut or falling merchandise that breaks your bones, you can minimize the risk of injury by following a few simple rules.
The number one thing people can do to prevent work place accidents is keep their eyes open. Many times when walking through a work area, the eyes tend to be looking somewhere other than where they are walking.
By keeping your eyes pointed in the direction in which the feet are moving, you reduce the chance of tripping over an item on the floor. Regardless of who left the hazard on the floor, there is a need for personal responsibility to watch where you are going.
Slipping on wet and dry spills are a major cause of workplace accidents and can also make a business responsible for customers as well, if they ignore the presence of the danger beyond a reasonable time.
If you see a spill on the floor, don't waste time by looking for the person who left the mess. Clean in up. Once the slip hazard has been removed, then the guilty party can be found, but leaving the spill looking for who caused it, only leaves the hazard in place for the next person who may not be watching where they are going.
While everyone in the workplace must take a large level of personal responsibility for their own safety, there should also be a level of responsibility for co-workers.
If you see someone working in an unsafe manner, give them a gentle reminder for their own safety. Besides, if a co-worker gets hurt not only will the profit of the company suffer by having to pay the cost of the accident, if they lose time from work someone else, maybe you, will have to work harder to get their work done.
If your place of employment has a record of all accidents, looking at it will show you that there are certain types of accident that come in a cyclical nature. Certain types of accidents will be more prevalent during certain times of the year.
For example, it should be no secret that most slip accidents occur during inclement weather when water is often tracked in and left standing near the entry doors and the first few steps into the business. Snow in the winter also leaves hazards inside as well as outside the front doors and at the gateway.
By knowing from past history when certain types of accident occur, you can prepare steps to remove the hazards when they occur. Being proactive in accident prevention is considerably cheaper than being reactive once an accident happens.
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