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Health and Safety: Taking It Seriously

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Running a business? You’re going to find yourself having to spend a lot of time and effort focusing on health and safety. Sure, it might not be the most exciting or glamorous element of running a business. But it can help to keep your business up and running. Here’s some more information to introduce you to the basics.

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Why Is Health and Safety Important?Repair WorkTemporary SignageFire SafetyPAT Testing

Why Is Health and Safety Important?

Of course, health and safety is a term that we hear thrown around a lot. But not many people truly understand the ins and outs of why it’s so important when you’re running a business. Here are just a few examples of why health and safety really should feature highly in your list of priorities.

  • Legality – in most places, there are rules and actual laws revolving around health and safety. Health and safety legislation will vary and differ depending on where you live and where your business operates, however, it’s important to check the rules and abide by them to prevent fines, company closure or imprisonment.

 

  • Morality –  when you run a business, it becomes your responsibility to care for anyone who comes into contact with your business or your products. You should consider it a moral prerogative to ensure that you’re not causing undue harm to these individuals.

 

  • Finances – if your business violates health and safety rules, or if you fail to implement proper health and safety and someone is harmed, you can find yourself facing legal challenges, which could result in fines or fees to pay that could potentially bankrupt your business.

 

  • Productivity – if your staff are well protected, you can count on them to be more productive. You won’t experience as much downtime caused by injuries or illnesses in the workplace. This can also reduce sick payments or payments for time off.

 

  • Branding – brand image is essential for success nowadays .You don’t want your business associated with health and safety breaches or incidents. Having a good reputation for health and safety can encourage customers to shop with you and can encourage quality staff to work for you.

Repair Work

Over time, things experience wear and tear or other problems that result in them not working as planned or simply breaking. It’s important that you ensure any repair work is carried out quickly and professionally as soon as you notice any problems in your workplace, or as soon as problems are reported. First, let’s focus on creating a reporting system. All staff should be advised to keep on the look out for issues in your workplace and you should ensure that there is a designated person to contact when issues do arise. This will streamline the process of actually getting repairs reported and work started to fix them. Next, you should make sure that you have a catalogue of professionals on hand who you know you can reach out to should problems crop up. Having chosen professionals to rely on beforehand will allow you to get them out sooner. Instead of spending time researching when issues are happening and quickly worsening, you can simply call reliable services you’ve researched in advance. You should have numbers for Toscano Plumbing, electricians, roofers, glaziers, carpenters, locksmiths and more.

Temporary Signage

Accidents happen. Every so often, you may find that water or other liquids are spilled in your workplace. For these, you should ensure that temporary signage is available, indicating that the floor is wet. This can prevent slips and trips.

Fire Safety

Hopefully, your business never experiences the outbreak of a fire, but you do need to make sure that you’re fully prepared, just in case. Fire safety includes many steps and you can call in fire professionals to survey your workspace and ensure that all the correct measures are in place. You should have smoke detectors, fire alarms, fire exit signs indicating the nearest fire exits, fire extinguishers to tackle different types of fires (water, AFFF foam, carbon dioxide, ABC powder, water mist, and wet chemical) and a fire protocol for staff to follow in the event of a fire.

PAT Testing

If you run a business with any electrical items, such as laptops, computers and more, you need to make sure that they are all PAT tested – as well as their chargers. This will ensure that they are working in good condition and that any faulty items are identified. This can prevent issues such as shocks or fires.

Of course, there are various other areas of health and safety that you might like to focus on. But these should help to get your venture started out in the best way possible.

 

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