Jeffrey Quinn of New Jersey Today wrote a piece the other day featuring five tips for preventing workplace injuries. Four of them focus on driving, weather, protective gear and worksite tidiness, and Quinn’s advice in those areas is great — and quick to read.
But the one major takeaway here is this:
Report Dangers – Reporting unsafe situations is one way you can improve the safety of your worksite. For example, if you come across a chemical spill and cannot identify the substance, do not touch or move it. Barricade the area and report the spill. Your worksite should have a spill response plan that includes emergency phone numbers, evacuation procedures, containment instructions and proper cleanup processes.
Additionally, keep all working and walking surfaces free of spills and debris.
buy bimatoprost online healthymomsandbabes.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/jpg/bimatoprost.html no prescription pharmacySpilled coffee in a stairwell or an electrical cord stretched across a walkway can lead to slips, trips and falls. Be proactive and report the danger. Watch where you are walking and exercise care given the conditions.
These days, apathy seemingly reigns supreme. In this economy, people are over-worked, under-resourced and, often, over-educated for their jobs with no short-term hope of career advancement. So they are loathe to go the extra mile to do things that help the common good as long as it doesn’t negatively affect them.
And this goes down to the level of someone seeing a spilled coffee, stepping over it and then simply continuing on with their day. It would be very easy for the worker to tell someone.
But often they don’t. It wasn’t an issue for them and it’s not their job to mop the floor, so the guy just shakes his head, bemoans the person who has failed to clean it up and goes back to his desk.
Here’s the part in the post where you could use some advice on how to help overcome that apathy.
Unfortunately, I have no idea.
Let us know how you do it.
Here is what I do to incentify “near miss” reporting…
All completed near miss reports are entered into a drawing at the end of every month for a $50 gift card to the store of their choice. I also make the reporting form anonymously as well because some people are so paranoid about reporting certain things. We went from one near miss a YEAR being reported to five or six a month!