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| Safety & Workers' Compensation |
| Workers' Compensation: How Managers and Supervisors can help you cut losses |
Safety begins at the top. It’s a simple concept, but one that is often overlooked. Even though managers and supervisors are seldom personally at risk for an accident in the workplace, their contribution to company safety is vital. If managers fail to create safety policies, or if supervisors are not willing to enforce them, it does little good to have them. Here’s how supervisors and managers can help improve safety at your workplace.
- Enrolling with us is the first step. Sheltered under our workers’ compensation umbrella, you have access to lower premiums, safety training, and periodic “safety audits” to help you discover and eliminate potential problems.
- Make sure your company’s safety policy is clear and openly communicated. Hold supervisors accountable for correcting unsafe behavior (horseplay, improper lifting, etc.) as soon as they see it occurring. Try linking bonuses or compensation to an improved safety record or decreased workers’ comp. expenses.
- Review your policies frequently in safety meetings, and make sure managers are visible participants. Share information. What might be common-sense safety procedure to one individual may be new to another.
- Be willing to allocate necessary funds to correct safety problems.
- Make managers and supervisors aware of the actual workers’ compensation costs.
- If additional incentives are necessary, reward individual or department improvements, or offer rewards or bonuses for improved safety records. For example, one construction firm saved over $10,000 in premium expenses because of safety improvements. A portion of that savings went back to the employees in their year-end bonus checks.
- Administer discipline for safety violations consistently, and in a timely manner.
Source: The PEO Insider
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