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| Risk Management |
| Your Company Safety Program: What it will cost you to be without one |
On January 6, an 18-year-old male sheet metal worker was killed after falling through a skylight opening. What was ironic about this young man’s death was that he was a member of a crew installing fencing materials and panels for the skylights because another worker had been killed after a fall through a skylight at the same sight only weeks earlier. Just picture the liability problems this employer is now facing.
No employer can afford to run a business without an adequate safety program. The difficulty is predicting all of the risks (and there can be thousands, depending on your industry) and then creating a program that will address and eliminate those risks.
This is one aspect of enrollment with a Professional Employer Organization that is gaining wider and wider appeal among business owners, particularly in the construction industry. Access to the PEO’s time-tested safety and risk management programs gives an employer some breathing space. He doesn’t have to “reinvent the wheel” in preparing his safety program, because the PEO has already prepared one for him.
One of the difficulties with a safety program is the difficulty in “covering all of the bases.” Consider the roofing industry for example. This single industry has hundreds of safety guidelines and regulations to abide by. Some of them include:
- Providing fall protection
- Creating hazard communication systems
- Providing personal protective equipment to prevent injuries
- Offering Materials handling training
- Teaching Crane and scaffolding safety
- Providing Fragile roofing training
- Devising Controlled access zones
We’re prepared with a Safety Program to help you eliminate or control the hazards at your worksite. You can’t afford to be without one. Implementation of a Safety Program will likely be far less expensive than dealing with the legal and medical liabilities you will face when an incident occurs.
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