Pound of Cure's real time approach to delivering health and safety education facilitates organizations ability to improve health and safety programs at the workplace.
Workplace safety is about preventing injury and illness to employees and volunteers in the workplace. Therefore, it's about protecting the organization's most valuable asset: its workers. By protecting the employees' and volunteers' well-being, the employer organization reduces the amount of money paid out in health insurance benefits, workers' compensation benefits and the cost of wages for temporary help. Also factor in saving the cost of lost-work hours (days away from work or restricted hours or job transfer), time spent in orienting temporary help, and the programs and services that may suffer due to fewer service providers, stress on those providers who are picking up the absent workers' share or, worse case, having to suspend or shut down a worksite due to lack of providers.
Addressing Safety and Health Hazards in the Workplace
To make the workplace safer, the organization has to acknowledge which potential health and safety hazards are present, or determine where, what and how a worker is likely to become injured or ill. It starts with analyzing and educating worksites about hazards — the potential for harm — be it a frayed electrical cord, repetitive motion, toxic chemicals, mold, lead paint, dust and or lifting heavy objects.