How Health and Safety can increase your productivity in business

Luckily, Health & Safety is not something you have to do alone. Everyone at your work has a role to play in watching each other’s back, identifying and managing risks to ensure a healthy, safe and incident-free work environment.

H&S plans don’t necessarily require lots of paperwork or expensive equipment. Apart from obvious benefits such as the employees well-being, it also helps with the following:

• increase productivity
• reduce worker absenteeism
• give your business a strong image
• bring peace of mind to workers and owners
• fulfil your legal responsibilities
• open the door to tender opportunities and winning new work
• keep customers happy.

Why is Health & Safety important in any workplace?

We have put together some of the main reasons and benefits of having an efficient Health & Safety process and tool in place.

1. Reduced absenteeism’s
Business that are committed to providing a Safe and Healthy working environment for management, staff and other persons in the workplace will have reduced absenteeism’s. This will ensure that your workplace is more efficient and productive when committed to health and safety.

2. Overall well-being
This commitment is pivotal to the ongoing well-being of your customers, your business, the environment and ourselves. You need to invite all your staff to share your Mission and Vision of the business of developing and maintaining a health and safety management system that increases the overall satisfaction of employees and employers.

3. Competitive Advantage
A good health and safety record is a source of having a competitive advantage. It builds trust in your reputation and brand, while poor health and safety performance will directly affect profitability and can result in loss of trade or even closure of the business. 

4. Increase your business Culture
To have an open culture regarding having honest mistakes discussed and reported and staff not having the fear of being ridiculed or finger pointed. A staff and management culture of having mutual support from each other as and when required. The greatest assurance and asset of safety in all corners of the business, come from having a TEAM commitment of being safe and always promoting safety in the workplace. Personal accountability for your individual action or inaction not only at work, but away from work is seen as a positive educational culture.

5. Having great role models
Health & Safety MUST be lead from the top. Workers are much more likely to get involved and comply with controls if senior management makes it clear that health and safety is taken seriously by business leaders actively discouraging negative behaviours such as taking risks to save time or effort.

6. Peace of Mind
Last but not least having “Peace of Mind” within your business knowing that each and everyone is aware of how Health & Safety is applied within the company.