Do You Have A Safety And Health Plan?
Preventing workplace injuries should be just as important to your organization as the quality of its products or services. Ultimately your ability to accomplish your business plans depends, in part, on the health and welfare of those who contribute to it. It stands to reason that if the organization is sincerely committed to product or service quality it also will be equally committed to worker safety. They go hand-in-hand.
As with other major initiatives undertaken, such a serious commitment deserves serious and thorough planning in order to accomplish the ultimate goal of maintaining “zero injuries” and reducing workers compensation costs. Otherwise your organization’s collective safety and health efforts will fall short of expectations and will waste valuable time and resources. To make matters worse, employees will view the organization’s efforts as “just another management fad,” and the overall effort will not be taken seriously.
If properly developed the annual safety and health plan will provide the following benefits to your organization in its effort to minimize work-related injuries:
- Top Management Commitment Is Obtained. This planning document should receive top management support. Once approved, the safety and health team will have complete assurance that management fully supports their efforts and that sufficient resources are being allocated to accomplish stated goals.
- All Team Members Are On The Same Page. Everyone on the safety and health team will be aware of their responsibilities and organizational goals. As a result, collective efforts will be focused in the same direction.
- The Safety And Health Team Is Empowered. Once approved by top management, all members of the safety and health team will be empowered to execute the annual injury prevention plan and will be accountable for its proper implementation.
- Results Are Monitored And Measured. A key benefit of the annual injury prevention plan is that specific goals are prepared in measurable ways. Therefore, the safety and health team will know if its collective efforts were executed successfully or if additional focus is needed in certain areas.
- Valuable Feedback Is Provided For Further Planning And Implementation. Because the injury prevention plan is monitored on an on-going basis, the Safety Director will be supplied with reliable information to help in understanding which efforts are working and what needs further improvement or focus.
In short, the annual safety and health plan is the road map to accomplishing your organization’s safety and health goals with the full support of upper management. Taking this step seriously will pay huge dividends down the road but reducing both insured workers compensation costs as well as indirect workers compensation costs.
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