There are a handful of steps your organization must take to ensure the safety of its people who are working from home. An effective work-from-home safety program should clearly identify the safety hazards and cover techniques to eliminate or mitigate the risks. Good safety programs should also be regularly evaluated and monitored to ensure integrity and effectiveness. Once you have created a Hazard Assessment Guide Checklist, Emergency Communications Plan, and defined your Emergency Response Procedures, it’s time to implement your protocols. Thus, part four of our Home Hazard Assessment Guide will cover the step-by-step implementation of your safety guide for employees working from home.
Home Hazard Assessment Guide Part 2: Emergency Communication Plan
In addition to the unique hazards associated with working from home, maintaining open lines of communication may prove to be a considerable challenge for your company. However, it doesn’t have to be. Part 2 of our Hazard Assessment Guide is designed to help you and your people stay in touch to mitigate the risks associated with working from home in your respective industry. This segment will cover communication tactics that should be carried out in the event of an emergency.
Home Hazard Assessment Guide Part 1: Hazard Identification
The US workforce is making the shift from office to home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. With this transition, comes new challenges for companies and for employees. It’s important to appreciate that even though your staff no longer have a commute to work and will no longer be performing their jobs in a physical office, safety hazards still exist in the home. This segment is part one of five in our Work-From-Home Hazard Assessment Guide to help you and your employees work safely from home. It will provide a step-by-step outline to follow when conducting a thorough at-home hazard assessment.
A Comprehensive Look Into Proactive Safety
This blog article is part 2 of a 3 part series of Proactive and Reactive Safety Measure in the Workplace. The prefix “pro” in Proactive Safety quite literally means “before.” If an individual is proactive, it means that they make things happen instead of wait for things to happen to them. Thus, being proactive means being ready if something happens: the opposite of being reactive. When we think about safety, being proactive entails