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Human Factors & Safety In The Workplace

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Workplace safety is a primary concern for any manager or owner of a business. In addition to providing facilities and tools that are free of hazards, people need to be trained in a way that makes them aware of potential injury and able to work in a way that minimizes risk.

Training

Comprehensive employee training is critical to a safe workplace. No matter how many technical devices may be integrated into the workplace, they will have little effect if employees don't understand their own importance in avoiding hazards and injury. Widespread knowledge of hazardous materials, potentially dangerous tools and activities that should be avoided is the best way to protect a work force. Companies that are serious about safety employ universal safety and training programs for all new employees, and updating programs that existing employees participate in every year.

Communication

Open communication between employees should be encouraged when it comes to safety. The people who are actually doing the work are the ones who are most familiar with potential dangers, as well as the ones with the greatest stake in avoiding those dangers. Sharing knowledge about working conditions, hazards that need to be addressed and ideas for improved general safety helps to create a culture of safety within the workplace. Companies that fail to develop this sometimes have problems with its opposite: a daredevil attitude that belittles concerns about injury or illness.

Policies

Individual behavior can be modified and improved by having blanket policies in place that govern the actions of anyone on the work site. A common example of this is the requirement for hard hats, eye and ear protection and steel-toed boots on most construction sites. Requiring everyone without exception to have these things does away with complicated questions of who, why and where, and helps to ensure that everyone is protected at all times.

Carelessness

Regardless of many how policies are in place, there will always be individuals who are habitually careless. This is one of the main dangers of injury in a well-run workplace. Policies are useless if they are ignored. Often, young or inexperienced workers won't take hazards seriously until they are injured. Workplace managers need to be strict about carelessness in a workplace. Refusal to work in a safe manner and to follow safety precautions should result in reprimands, penalties and, if necessary, termination

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