Health And Safety – Why?
We have now determined what we mean by ‘health’ & ‘safety’ but are there any benefits to this? Firstly, we must consider the Moral side of things:
- By ensuring good health and safety practice is implemented, we can reduce the number of accidents, the number of injuries at work and the human cost of accidents.
- In turn employers are also fulfilling their responsibilities to the welfare of employees_
Secondly; there are a number of significant costs associated with accidents.
- Any employees who are injured at work, could potentially lose out financially from being unable to work.
- Additionally, employers will face a lot of unseen costs, which could include loss of production time, hiring temporary staff; retraining; increased insurance premiums, equipment damage and poor public relations which could affect future revenue.
Thirdly; we must not forget the Legal reasons
- When an accident in the workplace occurs there is the possibility of civil litigation and criminal prosecution, which could result in fines and or imprisonment.Thirdly we must not forget the Legal reasons