4 Things Every Startup Should Know About Employee Safety

If youre an entrepreneur who has recently started to grow a large team, or youve just recently done so, then employee safety should be at the top of your priority list. Its important to ensure that you provide a safe and risk-free environment for your workers, especially in those industries where a lot of the work is manual or in an industrial setting.

Not only is it important for your employees to feel protected, but for you to feel protected also by the assurances that you have put the correct safety procedures in place.

Start planning from the beginning

As a startup, its not likely you’ll form a thorough health and safety procedure and company policy overnight, especially if your business is still being established and new employees still hired, but its important to work towards it as quickly as possible with the right steps from the very beginning. You need to form a basic plan which you can discuss with your employees regarding workplace safety and how to work best to avoid risks.

Its a good idea to get legal counsel as soon as you can to double check your workplace and ensure that all legal safety angles have been covered for you and your employees.

Provide the right tools

Naturally, the type of tool depends on the industry you are in, but its relevant to all. The right tools could be protective equipment for a warehouse setting, providing a safety box cutter to all warehouse staff, or it could even be ensuring that all equipment in an office setting is safe to use and there are no electrical faults.. No matter the setting, providing the right tools means ensuring that the job your employees need to do can be done so safely and without risk of injury.

Delegate

As an entrepreneur, its expected that youll have the majority of responsibility and workload on your shoulders. With regards to health and safety, however, if you are starting to build your team of employees, its a good idea to elect another member of staff to help you with employee safety. This could be the role of a team leader or just an individual who you trust to ensure that all worker safety procedures are being carried out when you are not there or not able to concentrate on it.  

It could still go wrong

Naturally accidents and events occur, even if you have done everything you can to maintain the safety of your employees. An employee may still get injured through a personal accident, or just bad luck in the workplace. As long as you know you have implemented the correct worker safety procedures, all you can do is avoid blaming yourself and ensure you show full support to your employee if the worst should happen. An employee will react better to a natural accident if they have your full support, rather than turning blame if they feel unsafe at their place of work.

Jeremy

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