Health / Work environment

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Healthy working environments = productive businesses

In order for businesses to be efficient, productive and successful, their employees need to be happy, healthy and feel safe. Research shows that those people that are happy within their working environment work far more effectively and happily than those who are uncomfortable. Thus it is well worth investing in acquiring the knowledge to ensure that you consider certain aspects of your employees’ workspace quite carefully and implement safe working practices.

All working environments are different, and thus there is no general rule for all businesses to follow. However in most instances, considerations include noise, ventilation, lighting, temperature and stress levels to ensure a healthier and safer working environment for your employees.

Creating a positive, healthy and safe working environment is a diverse area and includes aspects such as:

• work / life balance
• stress management
• career coaching
• leisure and welfare activities
• equality and diversity

Health & Wroking Environment Rules and Regulations

Keeping up-to-date with the legislation withing your business area will ensure that you maintain a safe working environment and avoid accidents. According to UK official statistics, every year about 2,000 lives are lost through occupational disease or injury, about 20,000 major industrial injuries occur (e.g. skull fracture, loss of sight) and there are about 200,000 injuries resulting in a work disability of 3 days or more.

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Health and Safety: better your business with knowledge

Good practice in health and safety makes good business sense, and in the UK it is the law to follow health and safety policies. Employers have legal responsibilities that they must follow with regards to health and safety.

As the owner of a company, you are obliged to provide free health and safety training and supervision for everyone who works for you, including self-employed people, as everyone needs to know how to work safely and without risks to health. This means that you need to train them and supervise their work.

• Protect your workers from the suffering caused by accidents and ill health
• Reduce and manage absences and sick leave
• Retain valued staff
• Create better workplace relations
• Maintain your organisation's reputation
• Boost productivity and profits
• Reduce your insurance premiums and legal costs

Use leadership to achieve safety in your workplace  

For health and safety practices to be effective, performance must come from the top, and members of the board have both a collective and individual responsibility for health and safety. Taking a course in health and safety will provide you with the guidance you will need to implement and manage health and safety policies. There are training courses for all directors, governors, trustees, officers and their equivalents in the private, public and third sectors. It’s up to those in positions of leadership to plan, deliver, monitor and review the health and safety practices in their organisation.

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Involve you employees

In order to make your workplace healthier and safer, you can learn how talking to, listening to and involving your employees help to improve and raise standards in your organisation.

Being prepared and familiar with the health and safety regulations helps you to gain the commitment of your employees and their representatives, so that they feel involved and enthusiastic about tackling health and safety together. A health and safety training course will teach you how to prepare, plan, consult and improve your working environment.

First Aid: protect your employees

St Johns Ambulance believes everyone should have basic first aid skills, including life saving procedures, wounds and bleeding, burns and scolds, heart attacks and shock. It is necessary that employers keep up-to-date with the first aid regulations (which change annually) and ensure that they have assessed the number of first aiders necessary for their workplace, as well as the level of emergency first aid knowledge required for their risk environment. People at work can suffer from accidents or sudden deteriorations in health and it is necessary that employers have made arrangement for employees to be cared for and receive the immediate attention necessary.

» Training courses in First aid

Fire Safety for your organisation

Depending on the nature of your business, it is most likely necessary that legislation requires you to assess the fire risks within your working environment and have put into practice fire precautions and safety procedures to eliminate and manage the risk of fire. The designated fire marshal will be required to have the certification to prove that your organisation is taking responsibility for fire safety.

» Training courses to ensure Fire Safety

Food and Hygiene Safety for your organisation

In order to ensure that your workplace is in compliance with the main general food law requirements, including the provisions on food safety, you must keep up-to-date with legislation. Being familiar with the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness will allow your workplace to operate legally, and help your understanding of the number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards.

» Training courses in Food Safety & Hygiene Safety

Safety and Security

Ensuring your workplace is both safety and secure is very important for all employers. Courses within security and safety can for example contain how dangerous matters should be transported, but also how workplaces should be created from security aspect.