Workplace safety is a huge factor in becoming and maintaining a successful business, whether it’s in our backyard shed or in a large corporate warehouse. You can measure safety performance by accident frequency and risk management.
Accident frequency is easy. How many times have I cut myself? Is that dust making me choke and get sick? How many beers did the dog help me clean up this week? All these answers are the basis of your individual workplace safety record.
Risk management is the hard one. Make sure you are wearing gloves, hard toe boots, hard hat, high viz vest. Use the right tools; sharp blades, sockets not vice grips. Stack material safely; no leaning towers of printers, good quality storage bins. Minimize your piles and “heaps”. Beer MUST be in a koozie at all times, placed in a certified cup holder that could withstand a small earthquake, and places no higher than shoulder height, but no lower than you knee. Replacements MUST be within sight line and be of a substantial quantity.
Accident frequency can be reduced through risk management. In turn, risk management directly affects accident frequency. If you understand this relationship, you can directly affect your businesses success.
Hope this helps answer the Op’s question
Good luck, be safe and drink on.
Now where did I put my beer …….?
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