Good health & safety is good business
Although there are significant legal requirements in this area on employers, there are major benefits to your business of a good Health & Safety management. These include:
- Reductions in staff absence
- Reduce costs (and human costs) of illness or injury
- Increasing employee motivation
- Building a positive culture
- Showing strong leadership
- Fulfilling a moral and legal duty of care
- Improving loss control and client-customer confidence
- Reductions in claims against the organisation
- Reductions in adverse publicity
- Improved insurance liability rating
- Improved productivity
- Positive response from customers who want to deal with an organisation with a proven health and safety track record
- To prevent a major event that could put the company out of business