Monday, 4 March 2013

Safety Management System Strategies


Health and safety at workplace is one of the most important responsibilities of the employers. Safety service companies work in sync with the safety management systems and regulations to build a healthier and more productive work environment. All employees are entitled to work in a safe environment. Even though organizations follow safety management systems, but still there are many work related injuries and accidents recorded each year. The purpose of health and safety services company is to reduce accidents at workplace and encourage both employers and employees to effectively follow safety management system to achieve this goal.
There are many countries where occupational health and safety programs are still negative and needs a lot of development. According to researches, approximately, 30-50% of the workers report ill health because of poor safety settings at workplace. It is observed that around 120 million occupational accidents with 200,000 fatalities happen annually and there are around 68-157 million new cases of occupational health and safety that happen because of different exposures at workplace. As a safety services company, following are the factors that you should take care to implement an effective safety management system.
  • Prevention of employees is of utmost importance. Proper steps should be taken for them in case of an accident and hazardous conditions.
  • It is the responsibility of employers to supervise and train their employees about health and safety management systems and on the other hand, it is the responsibility of employees to understand their rights, duties and follow safety system.
  • Compliance policy to ensure that both employers and employees are fulfilling their duties according to industry standards.
  • There should be a newsletter regulated within the organization focusing on information about health and safety regulations.
Such developments will improve the quality of work and add to overall quality of life of individuals and society.

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