Begin promoting occupational safety and health in your company by assessing and eliminating risks. If you cannot eliminate or reduce the hazard and danger factors related to the work prior to work, make a plan for controlling these.
Aiming for occupational safety should be part of every employee’s competence and skills. Ensure that your employees know the dangers and hazards related to their work and know how to promote occupational safety. Provide guidance and training to your employees on the safe use of work equipment. Ensure that especially supervisors are trained so that they will be able to supervise their subordinates’ occupational safety in practice. Also place specific emphasis on guidance if the guidance is given to a young person, to a new employee or in exceptional conditions.
Continuously monitor your employees’ working conditions. Procure only tools and equipment for your company that meet with safety requirements. See to it that the necessary amount of personal protective equipment such as safety gloves is available for your employees. Safe and healthy working conditions reduce the amount of sick leave employees take, the number of workplace injuries and employees’ workload as well as improve well-being at work.
Remember that the process of creating a safe and healthy workplace is long-term and systematic in nature. Draw up a plan for workplace safety, which includes, for example, areas that require development.
Continuously, monitor how well your company achieves the occupational safety targets that have been set for it. Update targets as necessary.