Simple steps
To help maintain your new health and safety initiative remember to:
- Consult employees
- Report work-related accidents
Next Step – keep it going!
Now that you have taken the simple steps to improve health and safety in your organisation make sure you keep it up. Here's how:
- Talk to your employees. Your staff are often the best people to identify potential problems as well as offering solutions, so discuss the issues with them whenever possible. This will save you time and money in the long run. You may also get valuable insights into what your employees think about their work conditions, not just in health and safety concerns but others matters too.
- Report any work related accidents or ill health. Keep a record of incidents and accidents in an Accident Book.
Try this!
Here's a leaflet to help employers and self-employed people assess risks in the workplace. It is aimed at commercial, service, and light industrial sectors:
Five Steps to Risk Assessment