Ensuring a safe environment for its workers should be a priority for every organisation, but choosing the best safety solutions can often be a minefield for managers. Each industry faces its own unique safety challenges, especially those working in high-risk environments where businesses must contend with higher-than-average accident frequency rates and fatalities. Plus, with many different safety solutions on the market, this doesn’t make selecting one any easier.
If you’re a business looking to improve safety on your worksite, we’ve put together some tips to help you choose the best possible solution.
First of all, identify your safety issues
While a one-size-fits-all approach to safety might seem the easy option, this is unlikely to provide maximum value for your business and may expose your workforce to new risks.
Identifying your unique safety challenges will help you make the right decision when it comes to selecting the appropriate methods of prevention.
Calculate the cost of your issues
Every year, millions of working days are lost due to work-related illness and injury. Additionally, being found in breach of health and safety regulations can be far more costly than complying in the first place. According to a recent study, health and safety fines alone can cost £62,770 more than the cost of compliance for an SME. All of this is not to mention the potential cost to human life in an unsafe workplace and the knock-on effects of this.
Once you have an understanding of the possible economic and human costs of your safety issues, this will ascertain the true value of investing in a safety solution for your worksite.
Find a solution with rock-solid reliability
When it comes to people’s safety, there’s no room for error or unreliable safety equipment. Whatever you choose, your solution should be reliable and have adequate fail-safe protection so you can be 100% confident your teams are always protected.
Look for minimal solution set-up times
Safety shouldn’t have to be time-consuming, especially when emergency situations arise. Your solution should be easy to use and quick to set up so that your teams can be protected onsite right away.
Make sure you can seamlessly integrate your solution with your teams
In safety-critical environments, workforce adoption and engagement with new initiatives is crucial. Ideally, your solution should either have a built-in engagement strategy or the backing of a dedicated organisation that can help drive workforce adoption.
Ensure your solution won’t quickly become outdated
With new risks constantly emerging, keeping on top of safety can be an ongoing challenge for business owners. Make sure your solution is future-proofed and able to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of safety.
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