5 Workplace Safety Tips to Protect Your Clients

Every year, private industry employers report about 2.6 million non-fatal workplace accidents and injuries in the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, this number went up to 2.8 million in 2022.

Businesses can save money and have a positive impact on their experience modification score by investing in safety programs.

If you’re a PEO wondering how to make your client’s workplace safer, keep reading!

Risk Assessment

Encourage your client to set up a risk assessment team or evaluate their office for them. This assessment is key to creating risk reduction strategies.

Scheduling frequent safety inspections and documenting them to devise proactive measures. The inspections can be monthly, quarterly, or yearly, depending on the type of exposure and hazards.

Visits or informational resources from their insurer, local safety council, OSHA, and other external organizations can help identify hazards that they may have missed during the self-inspection.

Create a Workplace Safety Program

Your client can set up a comprehensive workplace safety program that has detailed policies and procedures for identifying, reporting, and addressing workplace hazards.

Advertising safety awareness throughout the business through staff meetings and safety flyers is a great way to reiterate this program.

Offering rewards for safety track records and appreciating employees for maintaining safety will motivate employees to promote workplace safety.

Incident Reporting

Your clients need to encourage their employees to report incidents, including near misses. Guide them to create a culture of accountability and open communication, where employees are not anxious to flag minor incidents.

Safety Training

From management to interns, everyone in the firm must be trained to implement a workplace safety program.

Your clients need to add the safety program to the new hire training or when employees transition from one role to another. This will help them be aware of potential work hazards in their new roles.

Providing safety training, education, and occupational health programs makes employees feel safe every day when they arrive for work. So, ensure your clients are on top of these.

Help them review their workplace safety procedures and processes regularly and update them as needed.

Investigate Accidents and Identify Injury Trends

When an accident happens, make sure your client is conducting timely investigations and taking the necessary precautions.

Analyze their claims and see if there are any patterns in the injuries. For instance, if the highest number of claims are from slips or falls in a particular area, your client could work on improving the safety measures in that specific part.

With the right safety measures in place, your clients can reduce the cost and severity of workers’ compensation claims. Check out our other blogs for more tips and updates about workers’ compensation insurance.