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Ensuring your workplace is a safe environment for staff, while implementing the highest level of health and safety practices will result in a productive workplace with reduced expenses from production halts and human resource shortages.
Businesses that fail to establish and implement industry expected and regulated standards of health and safety policies, could place the business at risk from a multitude of expensive costs, including the payment of wages for those injured in the workplace environment; expenses associated with the formal review procedure that is mandatory when workplace accidents and near incidents occur; potential of legal costs and fines if the employer is found to be at fault or in contradiction to the health and safety policies that govern the business, and costs of compensation that may result to those who have suffered as a direct result of an unsafe workplace.
One of the main causes of serious injuries in the workplace is the improper storage, transport and use of chemicals. Under health and safety legislation, businesses and organisations have a duty under law to eliminate and/or isolate the risk involved, as well as implementing workplace procedures that minimise the chance of an adverse event, while monitoring the success or otherwise of such policies and procedures.
Best practice policies relating to the handling of chemicals revolves around minimising the exposure to such chemicals, ensuring that your systems of utilising the chemicals are aimed at reducing the timeframe of immediate contact, the adequate training of those who come into contact with chemicals in the workplace, and making sure that the correct storage and dispensing equipment is used.
