The Importance Of Following Occupational Health Procedures At Your Workplace

Jul 26 2022 11:22AM

While general health and safety procedures are widely known to be vital for all businesses, have you ever considered how vital it is to follow occupational health and safety procedures? Here, we look at why this is a vital part of your success, and how Arion can help you.

Vital for your duty of care

You have a duty of care to your employees, and occupational health and safety is vital for ensuring you run your business safely. This ensures that you recognise and maintain your duty of care to protect your employees, providing high levels of health and safety at all times.

Support your employees

Supporting your employees by incorporating occupational health and safety means that you can encourage safe working practices and study your employees to ensure they are working as effectively and safely as possible. Occupational health and safety will also cover the monitoring of their health and supporting sickness management, among other vital areas.

Benefits for health and culture

Employees are not simply there to perform a task and go home - it's important to take a holistic approach to your staff, which includes taking care of their mental health and wellbeing. Occupational health and safety can help to provide this and give your employees a safer working culture which can lead to them feeling more secure at work - this may even result in an increase in productivity.

Promoting occupational health and safety

You can regularly promote occupational health and safety to your employees by ensuring that you are always compliant with current legal standards, and that your staff are trained in all policies and procedures. You should also provide training for all equipment and ensure that your staff have the PPE they need to do their work safely. If your staff are engaging in manual handling, they should be regularly trained in the correct posture and techniques.

The importance of occupational health specialists

Occupational health specialists are on hand to help you to make reasonable adjustments and to advise on when the in line with regulation may apply. They will also be able to advise on return-to-work situations and ensure your compliance with current standards.

How Arion can help your workplace

If you are looking to improve your compliance with occupational health standards, then Arion is on hand to help you. We can provide an in-depth occupational health screening which is bespoke to your needs. This will include common considerations such as hearing and vibration tests, blood pressure and slip testing.

We also cover areas such as fresh air and smell testing, as well as urine testing for isocyanate. Whatever your specific needs are, get in touch to see how we can support your workplace.

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