Making work environments safe as well as profitable
Getting the balance right about risks calls for judgment. If your business devotes more than enough resources to managing risks, you may waste money and time. If you don't devote sufficient resources, you may not only lose time and money, ripple effects may result in losing customers and staff so the costs become much greater than you calculate.
Self-evident areas of risk
Technical understanding of your business can take you a fair way in recognising risks to safety and health of employees and customers. Your insurers may well guida you on how to control premiums by a rigorous approach to risks associated with equipment and machinery, hazardous substances, travel and transport, building and refurbishment. These areas of work are often relatively straightforward to programme, measure and review.
Stealers of your resources
There are two classes of risk that can steal money and your most valuable resource, time of managers, unless you get on top of them positively.
These are risks that are mainly to do with human behaviour. They include: handling loads, repetiive work at machines and computers, assembly work involving a lot of routine, recurrent conflicts that maintain stress, as well as trips, slips and falls (either from a height or on the level). Very often, where these are overlooked they lead to significant unplanned costs.
And that's where the root of the other class of risk lies. It's the risk of not recognising and converting opportunities, by not creating a work environment where your people at all level feel valued and engaged. The risk of not gaining advantages of strengthened motivation and great collaboration.
Eager to help you to the next stage of risk management
Unless you choose to allow your standards of safety and health to drift, we are confident that we can contribute to your drive to high standards of health and safety.
That is, whatever level your system of health and safety right now, we can help you to improve it cost-effectively. Through sound applications of psycholgy and ergonomics, coaching or legal compliance.