Health And Safety Management

The basic principles for the successful implementation of a workplace safety management system in your organization include

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  Top management commitment
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  Creating a reporting system encouraging employee participation
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  Training workers to identify and mitigate risks
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  Performing periodic inspections and Job Hazard Analyses to reduce risks
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  Collecting data and performing analytics to prevent future occurrences
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  Prioritizing risks and putting in controls
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  Planning for emergencies and unusual occurrences
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  Continuously improving based on experience

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Employee health and safety should be the topmost priority of an organization. Employers must design safety procedures with a deep focus on employee health and safety. However, in today’s scenario, employees are also dealing with different levels of stress. Organizations must pay attention to the mental well-being of staff, in addition to training and upskilling them for the future. Some health and safety guidelines for leaders to consider listed below:

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  Sanitization and sufficient protection in the form of masks and PPE should be made available
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  Social distancing could lead to escalated costs. Given the requirement for physical distancing, the office layouts will have to be redrawn, thereby reducing the number of workstations/employees in a given area.
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  Employees’ commute to and from work and the use of facilities at the workplace such as cafeteria, gym, shower rooms and other amenities provided by the organization deserves a vital amount of consideration while determining H&S protocols.
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  Monitoring employee health and handling any illnesses including isolation in case of infection and the implication for co-workers should be factored in
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  Incident reporting and management will become even more critical to protect colleagues, and organizations must adopt a robust and effective incident reporting mechanism that is void of any leakages
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  With these, there also arise concerns about discriminatory practices against a Covid-infected or recovering patient that need to be prevented through sensitization and other awareness programs
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  Health and Safety heads are also trying to address the risk that remote working / working from home poses, helping employees identify those risks, making them aware of the potential hazards, monitoring, etc.