Although as a business you have an obligation to buy employers liability insurance, ensuring your employees safety and that they remain healthy it just as important as having the right policy in place.

We look the key tasks to carry out and how employers can best take care of their employees. 

 

Complete a risk assessment

Before you can promote health and safety throughout the organisation, you first need to understand what the risks are. You need to identify all of the potential hazards and exactly who is at risk in all of the work your organisation carries out. Once you've completed this process, you then need to ensure that that the necessary controls are in place to protect those at risk.

 

Distribute a the health and safety document

Now that you’ve discovered all the potential hazards in your workplace it’s vital that your employees carry out the proper procedures you’ve put in place to reduce risk. The best way to do to this is produce a health and safety document that details all guidelines and the responsibility of each employee when carrying out their daily tasks. Once this document has been created, you need to distribute it to all of your employees.

Carry out consistent training

In addition to documenting the proper procedures, it just as important to carry out consistent training for the employees. This applies to both employees being inducted and those that just need a refresher and all training should be recorded as this may protect you against a claim.

Perform regular safety checks

Once your employees have received the training on to prevent accident and injury in the workplace, you should perform regular checks to ensure the proper procedures are being implemented. Check everything from making sure employees are wearing the appropriate attire to using equipment correctly. Although this may be a tedious process, it can reduce a lot of risk by reminding employees of rules and their responsibilities on a regular basis.

Keep records of each action

As stated earlier, it’s important to keep a record of the training the employees have received. One benefit of this is to keep track of any blind spots in certain employees knowledge of the company’s health and safety regulations or if they’re due for a refresher course. Another benefit is that the information recorded could be vital when to defending a claim along with preventing any incidents from reoccurring in the future. Evidence of training and actions taken towards preventing accidents and injury will be essential if the worst were to happen.