Occupational safety in 7 steps in your company.

Occupational safety in 7 steps in your company.

  • A company must live occupational safety! This requires a suitable concept which is implemented organizationally.
  • 7 steps to occupational safety in your company: 1) Identify work areas, 2) Identify hazards, 3) Assess and evaluate hazards, 4) Define protective measures, 5) Implement protective measures, 6) Check effectiveness, 7) Document.
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Plant inspections and risk assessment to optimize safety at work

Get an up-to-date picture of the risk potential of jobs in your company. A plant inspection with risk assessment and detailed consideration of the working conditions is recommended.

For example, the following questions arise: Do the workplaces currently already meet all the requirements of the Occupational Safety Act? Is the work of the employees/ -in according to the regulations? Are prescribed thresholds adhered to? (e.g., does the noise measurement in the assembly hall confirm that drills and saws do not cause excessive noise pollution?) Are there other potential hazards such as explosion hazards?

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Expand your existing concept of occupational safety

Operating instructions and all documents necessary for occupational safety First, possibilities for optimizing safety in the workplace are identified. This creates an overview of all hazards and hazards in the company. It then lends itself to expanding the existing occupational safety concept. Operating instructions and all other documents required for occupational safety can be created in a targeted manner. In this way, unnecessary investments are avoided and the company enjoys legal certainty in the field of occupational safety. Typical topics for operating instructions: Installer instructions (for example, load securing and workplace description) Procedures after work accidents (emergency procedure) Psychologist for stress situations Instructions for handling hazardous substances

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Ensure that occupational safety is lived in your company

Safety instruction and further measures: Employees should train the right way of working as an automatism. However, this does not occur by itself, but only through active action. Safety instructions and further measures promote an awareness of occupational safety. If this sensitization is carried out regularly, the exemplary working method will eventually pass into automatic behavior. Typical teaching contents and topics:

  1. Working on machines and handling electrical equipment
  2. Safety on construction sites, loading safety and transport
  3. carrying safety equipment and activities with
  4. hazardous substances
  5. alcohol at work
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Integrate occupational safety firmly into your company organization

Safety specialist and occupational safety committee: The safety specialist gives the topic of occupational safety its face in the company. Occupational safety is given a vote via the Occupational Safety Committee. The safety specialist ensures that occupational safety is lived in the company and that measures taken develop a long-term effect. The safety specialist ensures that exemplary working methods are reinforced by positive feedback, and unsafe working methods are addressed by negative feedback. The Occupational Safety and Health Committee has the mission and the power to maintain the "recognition-assessment-elimination" cycle.

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