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| Safety & Workers' Compensation |
| Safety Awareness: Better weather doesn’t have to mean more accidents |
The tulips are high. Common sense is at an all-time low. As any emergency room physician can tell you, the rise in temperature brings with it a correspondent rise in accidents. HR Outsourcing’s goal is to be sure we’ve done everything we can to help keep you and your employees safe.
Accidents affect more than your workers’ compensation premiums. They affect productivity, morale, and a host of other “unmeasurable” elements.
We have several methods for helping you improve or maintain your company’s safety record. Here are just a few of them:
- We help you write and publish a formal manual on employee safety
- We offer safety training and OSHA compliance
- We can help you establish a progressive discipline policy so you can easily deal with infractions that put your company at risk
- We can help you audit your job descriptions to assure that they accurately portray the physical requirements for essential job functions
- We perform periodic audits of the worksite to help you spot and eliminate potential problems
If you use an “incentive program” as part of your effort to limit accidents, take a moment to evaluate whether or not you’re “rewarding” the right behaviors. If you reward someone for “not getting hurt,” you increase the likelihood that accidents will be hidden or go unreported, and the safety hazards that caused the problems will remain unchecked.
Instead, try rewarding behaviors like making safety suggestions, spotting and reporting close calls, attending safety meetings, etc. Include a rating for “employee safety performance” as part of your regular employee evaluations. We can help you create a program that will meet your company’s needs.
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