TRAINING ON WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY

1. What is Occupational Safety and Health?
Welcome to Pelicans Consulting Services and congratulations on choosing this exciting Workplace Health and Safety Training (WHST) that helps so many companies to improve on the standard of their business operations.
As days go by, your business  may be presented with the  needs to learn about Workplace Health and Safety training to its employees. Perhaps the chance to meet with someone particularly educated in that field, and  to talk to your employees more about it. But it is so true to say that your business helps increase your employees knowledge about their own health and safety at workplace as well as any other places they may find themselves in life. In other words, you have to know what  is health and safety really about to improve on taking care of your business and the people who work in as life goes by. And only by inquiring or researching that you will finally have a chance of obtaining such awareness. On the other hand, if your business does nothing about it, your business will continue to survive with high level of possibility of decreasing in productivity in time to come when your employees are victims of preventable accidents or incidents which in turn becomes stressful.

The environment at your business may seem cozy and comfortable, but that still doesn’t mean everyone is safe in it. There are numerous safety risks and workplace hazards around every corner.

First of all, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), workers suffer tens of thousands of office-related injuries and health problems each year. Every employer needs to be aware of common workplace hazards so they can take steps in either minimizing them or eliminating them and making sure the odds of any workplace injury occurring are reduced to a minimum.

In addition to that, according to the first joint estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO)Work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016.The study considers 19 occupational risk factors, including exposure to long working hours and workplace exposure to air pollution, asthmagens, carcinogens, ergonomic risk factors, noise, and the use and handling of equipment and machines. The key risk was exposure to long working hours and use of equipment and machines – linked to approximately 750,000 deaths. Workplace exposure to air pollution (particulate matter, gases and fumes) was responsible for 450,000 deaths.

Furthermore, in order not to be part of such witnessing of work-related accidents or incidents in the business, it is imperative for every employer to provide his employees an Occupational Safety and Health training so as to reduce or even eliminate as much as the possibility of those accidents or incidents at the business places. Only the management of the business can do something about it as contribution to the smooth running of the business. There is this saying that ” Prevention is better than cure” and that is what your business should be about since the business cannot afford to be running  without some or most of its skillful employees due to the reasons only-known to the management of the business . In return the busines will be running at a production that will gain less revenue than the cost of an Occupational Safety and Health training  it has omitted from the expenses of the business though those expenses are valuable and needed.  There are many reasons for which people or employees do not show up at work whereby some or many of those reasons are caused by the workplace itself. Many employers may first come across Occupational Safety and Health as part of a path to take, or something else. But planning what the business needs to do to improve or change the level of its standard is not just important in formal situations. It can also help in the reputation of the business. For that reason, your business has taken the first steps to its Occupational Safety and Health training and enforcing every aspects of it during business hours.

We all know how helping our business  achieve its goals, inspiring ourselves to keep going in the face of adversity, and refuse to allow ourselves to be pitied in the seeming security of a mediocre living standard feel like. We motivate our employees to greatness by gentle persuasion, constant self-encouragement, or a kind of in-our-face inducement. Or perhaps we are someone like that, which is why you are reading this test. It’s a tale that the reasons so many businesses never accomplish their goals is because the management don’t really mean them, or don’t mean them badly enough.