Have a moment to really think what would happen if there were a major accident at your work. How would it touch with you and your co- workers?
Consider the harmed individual. Imagine their individual pain and suffering, and how their household will cope in the aftermath. It may be that they will have an extensive stay in hospital and may never work again. Or what if the accident had been a fatality? Imagine how you would feel, as well as how their family would feel.
With deathly or sever incidents enforcement agencies shall begin their involvement which will include the authorities and definitely the local inspectors or Health and Safety Executive. There shall be an investigation that will take up a lot of time and work.
After this the regulator may decide to take action, which may lead to fines, prosecutions, even jail time for individual directors or managers.
Think about some of the impacts on your organisation - they will include:
- Inquiry into the accident
- Reduced or delayed production
- Bigger insurance premiums
- Substituting the worker
Consider also the attention. How do you cope with the local television outlets and press that hear about the accident? How will your customers react, do you think? How will new and existing consumers, clients, the public and workers, view your company?
So we can see from this that there are three main reasons for managing safely - these are:
1) Ethical motives
2) Financial
3) Lawful
Let's take an in-depth look at each of these.
Legal Motives
Managing health and safety at work is not an optional activity. It is mandated by criminal law and any employer who fails to comply is exposed to very significant legal risks - both at an organisational and an individual level. Directors and employees can and do go to prison for health and safety breaches and significant fines are handed out.
Moral Reasons
There are apparent moral reasons for good safety. To be safe and in good health is everyone's 1 major right. Yet, lots of staff and members of the public are killed or considerably injured annually due to the activities of companies over a wide scope of industries.
Expense of Accidents
Ill health and accidents in the work place are very costly and are a large, often unseen, cause of costs. Expenses can be direct and also indirect. These expense losses may be covered by insurance or may be uninsured. Either way, employers affected will end up having to pay the costs in full eventually.
Remarkably, an investigation by the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) found that indirect costs were one third more than direct costs. So, the direct seen cost is just the peak of the iceberg where most of the expenses are hidden unless you seek them out. Let's take a look at the many types of costs that companies are possible to encounter when something goes array. The direct costs, which are sometimes insured, could be:
What are manager's responsibilities?
We've seen that managing safely is important - but what are employer's responsible for?
You are in the foreground of health and safety if you are an employer. As an employee of your company, it is your duty to make sure choices about safety in your area are dealt with. You are the one who decides what takes place in your department.
Accountability leads to answer-ability - as a manager you must provide those workers who you manage in your department different duties and roles, but you are nevertheless the operative who will be held answerable.
Reviewing our position from the start, when we asked you to think about a serious incident happening within your corporation. Put yourself in the position of the employer whose worker has been hurt.
* You are answerable for managing any hazards to which the worker was working with.
* It is therefore your job to schedule replacement labour, carry out an investigation into the accident, let customers know that their orders will be delayed, interact with law enforcement, and speak with the insurance company and any media.
* It is thus your place to schedule substitute staff, carry out an inquiry into the event, let consumers know that their products won't be on time, mediate with law enforcement, and correspond with the insurance firm and the media.
These are evidently very fundamental management duties. Basically, there is no other work that you will do that is more imperative than guaranteeing that all workers leave work safely.
Consider the harmed individual. Imagine their individual pain and suffering, and how their household will cope in the aftermath. It may be that they will have an extensive stay in hospital and may never work again. Or what if the accident had been a fatality? Imagine how you would feel, as well as how their family would feel.
With deathly or sever incidents enforcement agencies shall begin their involvement which will include the authorities and definitely the local inspectors or Health and Safety Executive. There shall be an investigation that will take up a lot of time and work.
After this the regulator may decide to take action, which may lead to fines, prosecutions, even jail time for individual directors or managers.
Think about some of the impacts on your organisation - they will include:
- Inquiry into the accident
- Reduced or delayed production
- Bigger insurance premiums
- Substituting the worker
Consider also the attention. How do you cope with the local television outlets and press that hear about the accident? How will your customers react, do you think? How will new and existing consumers, clients, the public and workers, view your company?
So we can see from this that there are three main reasons for managing safely - these are:
1) Ethical motives
2) Financial
3) Lawful
Let's take an in-depth look at each of these.
Legal Motives
Managing health and safety at work is not an optional activity. It is mandated by criminal law and any employer who fails to comply is exposed to very significant legal risks - both at an organisational and an individual level. Directors and employees can and do go to prison for health and safety breaches and significant fines are handed out.
Moral Reasons
There are apparent moral reasons for good safety. To be safe and in good health is everyone's 1 major right. Yet, lots of staff and members of the public are killed or considerably injured annually due to the activities of companies over a wide scope of industries.
Expense of Accidents
Ill health and accidents in the work place are very costly and are a large, often unseen, cause of costs. Expenses can be direct and also indirect. These expense losses may be covered by insurance or may be uninsured. Either way, employers affected will end up having to pay the costs in full eventually.
Remarkably, an investigation by the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) found that indirect costs were one third more than direct costs. So, the direct seen cost is just the peak of the iceberg where most of the expenses are hidden unless you seek them out. Let's take a look at the many types of costs that companies are possible to encounter when something goes array. The direct costs, which are sometimes insured, could be:
What are manager's responsibilities?
We've seen that managing safely is important - but what are employer's responsible for?
You are in the foreground of health and safety if you are an employer. As an employee of your company, it is your duty to make sure choices about safety in your area are dealt with. You are the one who decides what takes place in your department.
Accountability leads to answer-ability - as a manager you must provide those workers who you manage in your department different duties and roles, but you are nevertheless the operative who will be held answerable.
Reviewing our position from the start, when we asked you to think about a serious incident happening within your corporation. Put yourself in the position of the employer whose worker has been hurt.
* You are answerable for managing any hazards to which the worker was working with.
* It is therefore your job to schedule replacement labour, carry out an investigation into the accident, let customers know that their orders will be delayed, interact with law enforcement, and speak with the insurance company and any media.
* It is thus your place to schedule substitute staff, carry out an inquiry into the event, let consumers know that their products won't be on time, mediate with law enforcement, and correspond with the insurance firm and the media.
These are evidently very fundamental management duties. Basically, there is no other work that you will do that is more imperative than guaranteeing that all workers leave work safely.
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