30/09/2020
Who says that safety is expensive?
If you find that hard to believe, consider what a lost-time accident creates in indirect costs. You’ll have to pay for replacement labor while your worker recovers. Your supervisory staff probably had to take time away from their regular tasks to address the situation, and you may have assumed some additional costs to investigate and document the incident. But there may have also been production downtime, as other employees stopped working to help, watch, or simply talk about the incident. Equipment they may need could have been damaged – or the injured employee may have been the only one with knowledge about a particular procedure or process. You may face OSHA fines and legal costs. In the worst-case situations, the injury may cause you to lose a contract with a customer that has very strict safety standards — or even put your company on the 10:00 news or the front page of the newspaper.
©Safety Management Group
