Health & Safety – Ignoring It Will Close Your Business
Occupational health and safety and public health and safety are two areas that have become increasingly important, but also easier to manage, in recent years. There has been an increase in awareness of Health and Safety concerns in the general public and employees.
The increasingly litigious cultural atmosphere has brought health and safety to the forefront of most public and business decisions. This has been paralleled, however, by a growth in the availability of health and safety professionals, and also in better and more detailed health and safety information on the Internet. More help is available at http://www.health-safety-now.info.
Occupational health and safety measures can take many forms – from the management of physical risk in your place of work, to employee health and safety concerns about noise or stress levels.
The important thing for businesses is to have a plan for every possible health and safety situation that could arise, or that all could be feasibly predicted anyway.
Depending on your business area, there may be an organization that monitors the...