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It’s a pain in the bum

The truth is yes, complying with health and safety in the work place, and spending hard earned profits on safety supplies is a pain in the bum, but in reality, it really is in your best interest to comply, and make sure that your customers and employees are as safe as possible at all times.

Let’s look at some of last years UK work place accident & injury statistics for 2008/2009.

1.2 million People who worked during the last year were suffering from an illness (long standing as well as new cases) they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work. 551 000 of these were new cases.

180 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.6 per 100 000 workers

131 895 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 502.2 per 100 000 employees.

246 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour supply chain management components Force Survey, a rate of 870 per 100 000 workers.

29.3 million days were lost overall (1.24 days per worker), 24.6 million due to work-related ill health and 4.7 million due to workplace injury.

OK, so we can see that a large number of people have been sick at work, been injured at work or even died at work, and yes it is a good enough reason to have all these safety procedures and products in the workplace, but some employees don’t even care about health and safety, and don’t even want to comply, so why should you insist that everything is done by the book?

One simple answer

FINES!!

Yes that’s right fines! That is why it is so important for you to spend all this cash on health and safety in your business. In the long run it actually works out cheaper for you to spend on health and safety. If you don’t it’s only a matter of time before you will end up paying the price, and a big price at that.

You see when it comes to health and safety accidents, death and injury in the work place financially, there is only one loser, and that financial loser is the company that the employee was working for at the time of the accident, injury or death (that is if the company was not doing everything that they possibly could to prevent the accident from happening in the first place, and that they had hard evidence to prove it).

So who can fine forklift advantages the company?

The Employee or Customer – That’s right; the employee or customer can take you to court and take a big chunk from your bank account. These days it is so easy for an employee or customer to take an employer/company to court for even for the smallest accident. These days there are plenty of law companies out there that will have employee/customers backs on a no win no fee basis, and these law firms will obviously be …