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 3: Emergency Response Plan
In the case of an emergency, do you have a response plan that you can follow to make sure your team members will come out of it unharmed? Along with the right tools and guidance, an emergency response plan is a proactive tool that allows you to successfully minimize work-at-home risks and quickly respond to emergencies with employees working at home. With COVID-19 forcing many employees to work remotely, as an employer, you are responsible for the safety of your team while working at home. Developing an emergency response plan is an effective way to keep your people safe.
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.
Has Your Productivity Decreased While Working from Home?
As I write this, I am ironically attempting to be productive while entertaining my one-year-old son who is crawling around my feet. During this societal exercise in social distancing, I, like many others around the world, are working from home. There are a number of unique challenges that come with working from home or teleworking, many of which have been addressed on our Scatterling blog. One of these challenges is how to stay productive in the less-structured and sometimes chaotic environment of a home office. Here are 10 tips to stay productive while working from home: