Having a secure and safe workplace for you and your employees should be important to you as a business owner. However, when you’re taxed with the day to day tasks of running a business, it can be easy to neglect some of the most basic steps. This is also true of new business owners who may have good intentions but lack the necessary long-term experience to make sure the workplace is secure and safe all the time.
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Whether you have years of experience and you just want to brush up, or you’re starting a business for the first time, use this guide to help make your workplace safer and more secure for you and your employees. Doing that will improve the environment and reduce your exposure to potential lawsuits that could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Improve Entrance and Exit Security
The way employees enter and exit the workplace is something you may not think about too much, but doing a better job with entrance and exit security can help to improve your workplace’s overall safety. While you may not want to hire an actual security guard to sit at your door all day, you may want to do so in the morning when employees are arriving and when people are exiting the building.
In addition to actual security to help make sure the right people are coming into your workplace, you may also want to provide each person that works for you with an employee id badge to wear daily. Using employee badges can help make the process much smoother, and it is especially important in an environment where security and only allowing the right personnel in is incredibly important.
Talk to Your Employees
If you notice employees doing something that is unsafe in your workplace, taking the time to talk to them about it is essential. While you may not want to correct people often out of fear of discouraging or intimidating them, safety should always come first in the workplace. This is an especially important issue when you’re dealing with manufacturing or any sort of warehouse situations where injuries could occur.
You may also want to consider hiring a safety inspector to come in and watch employees in the workplace from time to time. They may not need to show up every day, but regular inspections can guarantee better overall safety.
Having instructional videos on the company’s way of doing things is good for safety too, just because its something all members can sign off on.
Wow! Nice article you got here and I am very impressed. Nothing more is important than to consider the safety of your workplace. Having the time to talk your employees will also help you as business owner to correct their actions.
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How great to see someone actually looking up, off their computer screens, to ensure that the world around them is working best, and safely. Looking after your employees goes a long way in making the working day way moire enjoyable for everyone.
Thanks for the post, Vishal
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I really dont think there is no 100% safety at work. All safety rules must apply by all employers.
100% safety is delusional. The best you can do as an employer and a employee is to be sure everyone is aware of the safety hazards that are present, and how to be safe.