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5 Ways to Make Your Workspace Safer
Workplace accidents are avoidable in near every instance. Laziness is usually the culprit. It’s interesting to observe how staff, senior and subordinates behave differently at work than they do at home. It’s a personal pride people take in maintaining a well-organized, safe space. For those who are careless at home, then maybe the following is an inspiration to “clean up”. This writing is not intended to shame or make anyone feel criticized, it is through many years as an observer and sharing my lens as a risk manager. An assessor of risk as an occupation is somewhat of an “albatross”. It sometimes inhibits the willingness to just “dive in”, take a chance. There is a gap between choosing to take a risk and not considering a risk is likely.
On a bar scale of one to ten, one being completely careless (or carefree), meaning rarely thinking about the consequences of actions, and ten being: overthinking with regularity, say being afraid of one’s own shadow is a one, to paint the picture. I score myself a six. Fairly in the middle.
That is my personal assessment. There’s a difference between being paranoid, observant and careless along the spectrum.
Here’s five simple tips to avoid a worker’s compensation claim (if an employee is injured) and a liability claim (when a non-employee/visitor/client for example) is injured:
