When it comes to preventing incidents involving slips, trips and falls, it’s important to have a continuous, multi-faceted programme in place that regularly reviews and assesses performance.
In a previous blog, we’ve given advice on How to prevent costly slips, trips and falls. Here, we detail how to know when you’re getting it right and how to ensure you keep your prevention programme on track for making continued improvements and consequently reduce incidents, absenteeism and resulting financial losses.
The ultimate sign of success is the continuous reduction of incidents and injuries occurring in the workplace and then elimination of these incidents completely. The classic signs that your multi-faceted program is successful in tackling your volumes of slips, trips and falls will be:
Once you start to see improvements in your rates of incident and injuries, it’s easy for complacency to take root. Take heed from the safest organisations - you’ll find these are characterised by a state of ‘chronic unease’ about their slips, trips and falls statistics. With this in mind, future proof your programme to ensure that your organisation continues to safeguard against these incidents. Here’s how:
If you need help with future proofing your safety programme for preventing slips, trips and falls in your workplace, our team will be happy to talk you through the best practices to adopt based on our experiences every day. Get in touch, and give us a call on 0800 328 5028 or request a call back from one of our team.