June is National Safety Month. This article will highlight how you can establish and maintain a safe workplace, along with why you should make it a priority.
It’s a good thing that the National Safety Council and the American Staffing Association, along with other agencies, work hard to give us all a reminder mid-year that safety is important and shouldn’t be forgotten in the busyness of doing business.
There are two key reasons WHY you should make safety a priority.
- There is absolutely no reason why in this day and age anyone should have to be fearful of getting injured on the job. Making a living should not require one to put their life or personal safety at risk, and most accidents on the job could have been prevented if proper safety practices were in place.
- You can’t afford not to make safety a priority. If you have Workers Compensation insurance, you already know what kind of an expense that can be ”” and it’s worth having ”” but imagine having a claim made on that insurance. What do you think that will do to your rates? Every year, small business owners have to close up shop because some preventable accident created expenses that their business’s bottom line simply could not withstand.
Learn HOW can you make safety a priority at your business.
We have a number of articles here on this site that talk about steps you can take to ensure you have a safe, happy, and healthy workplace for your employees. They include Workplace Safety basics, as well as articles about having an ergonomic workspace, keeping equipment maintained as it should be, as well as screening employees ”” since many accidents on the job happen due to substance abuse.
In addition, this video from the American Staffing Association discusses Effective Safety and Risk Management for staffing agencies and host employers ”” that means you!