Occupational Health and Safety
One fatality is one too many. The goal of a health and safety policy in the workplace is to establish awareness of potential risks and for employees to demonstrate the ability to live out health and safety training values.
What Is Health And Safety?
Complete health and safety encompasses compliance, education, training, awareness and culture; all organisations should live by zero tolerance for occupational health and safety risks. In South Africa, a lack of adequate health and safety training is resulting in numerous deaths, work place injuries and health related issues. This can impact an organisation in the following ways:
- Compensation costs
- Loss of productivity due to site closures
- Impact on colleagues and family
- Company image
- Legal costs
- Medical costs
- Human Resources costs – lost skills and retraining replacements
- Property damage
How Can We Address This?
Through installing a health and safety policy, both the employee and employer are protected. All employees must be able to:
- Identify risks and hazards
- Link safety to individual behaviour
- Evaluate precautions and preparations
- Identify correct processes and procedures
- Identify critical points
- Improve decision making
- Improve skills levels
“… Safety and health of workers is a part and parcel of human security…. safe work is not only sound economic policy, it is a basic human right….”
Kofi Annan, Former General Secretary of the United Nations.
Objectives & Outcomes of a Health and Safety Policy
Our expertise in occupational health and safety has identified the following suggested objectives, which just might fit with your health and safety training requirements.
Business Objectives
Through using Trainiac’s occupational health and safety training, we will assist you in achieving the following business objectives:
- Reduce incidents
- Reduce claims
- Reduce premiums
- Improve public relations
- Increase compliance ratings
Learning Objectives
Our health and safety training will cover these learning objectives:
- Identify risks
- Link to individual behaviours
- Evaluate precautions and preparations
- Identify correct processes and procedures
- Identify critical points
- Improve decision making
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