New Year’s Resolution: A Safe and Healthful Workplace

11/28/07

For 2008, you’ve probably got a lot of goals in mind for improving your business – but there’s one often-forgotten area that can have an immediate impact on your bottom line – safety.

While good safety practices can lead to higher productivity and improved morale, negligence can lead to accidents, injuries, and in the most extreme cases, death. And, with workers’ compensation costs on the rise, even the cost of one accident can be enough to cause significant financial damage.

Most companies also have a compliance obligation under OSHA’s General Safety Clause, requiring businesses to provide a safe and healthful workplace for their employees.

When it comes to getting your safety message across day in and day out, nothing beats the power of signs, posters, and banners. Prime places to display these eye-catching messages include:
• High-traffic locations such as time clocks, break rooms, and outside entrances all places employees will see them several times a day.
• High-risk areas such as loading docks, departments with inherently dangerous equipment, and close to operations that involve hazardous materials.
• Conference rooms and other places where workers meet regularly and where new employee orientation sessions are held.
• Bulletin boards in supervisors’ cubicles or offices.
• On easels set up for department meetings and safety-awareness seminars.

Nothing is more important than your employees’ safety. The ComplyRight™ Lifesaving Poster gives your employees fast access to important information in case of emergency.