Industrial Safety Practices Reduce exposure to lawsuits

Every year, accidents at work are busy with lawyers litigation resulting from accidents at work that could have been avoided by all, first, maintaining the appropriate security measures. Once an accident happens, it's already too late to react. The key is to take precautionary measures to prevent accidents from occurring in the first place. In this article, we will address the most basic procedural steps to be taken to improve safety in industrial workplaces. We will not deal with specific security procedure in respiratory specific fire protection measures and the like, that's a topic for another discussion.

First of all, develop a manual security procedures that the details of the security policy for your company. Each employee will then be trained at the instructions in the manual and should therefore be required to sign on a piece of training. This safety manual should outline all should do and should avoid actions in the workplace. This manual should be revised, if necessary, as additional processes are added or modified. New employees must be trained and current employees should be re-trained periodically. A person, as a minimum, must be assigned to supervise the security operations of your company. The Safety Officer shall report directly to the President of the company, at least for part of its security or its functions. This ensures that all safety procedures are taken seriously right from the top of the organizational ladder.

Penalties for violating safety practices should be quite stiff. For example, if an employee decides not to wear safety goggles in areas of production, which should be sent home without pay. It 's cheaper to lose a day's wages in addition to those losing their sight because of neglect to wear safety glasses. The same applies appropriate safety gloves. Areas where there is a high level of noise must be clear signs that require the use of hearing protection devices such as headphones and if you choose to violate the policy, the penalties must be severe enough. The safety officer should be required to maintain a register of accidents and incidents and should be given a target of reducing and potentially eliminating all accidents and injuries. It could provide incentives to keep the workplace free of all accidents and incidents. Safety signs and posters are a constant reminder to employees the importance of adhering to safety practices. These signs should be evaluated periodically. Once I came across a plant that had a sign indicating the presence of flammable liquids in an area where there was nothing but sand blasting booths and another sign in an area indicates that the obligation of the use of dust masks and the area had nothing but drums of acetone. As you might guess, the company had to move some departments namely the flammable storage area has been exchanged with the blasting area, but nobody thought of removal and transfer of safety signs also. Changing the signs periodically also ensures that workers are becoming blind to the signs of safety. Remember, the goal is to prevent workplace accidents, accidents at work place and associated litigation. Simple procedures can go a long way in accomplishing this task .......