Is your workplace safety plan enough?

This article was produced in partnership with Avetta.

When it comes to workplace health and safety, good enough is not enough. And while a lackadaisical approach to injury prevention can open the doors to catastrophe, close to 50% of today’s organizations are struggling to implement and uphold industry recommended best practices.

A report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a global social justice and labour rights agency reveals over 2.3 million workers die annually because of work-related injuries and illness, while upwards of 317 million workplace accidents continue to cause serious injury and lead to extended sick and disability leave year over year. At a micro level, the cost of one workplace injury can amount to $47,000, while the dollar cost of a workplace fatality can reach $1.2 million.  

Download Avetta’s free Workplace Safety 101 white paper and find out what you can do to bring your safety policies up to regulatory standard.

Organizations can mitigate these incidents by ensuring personnel and equipment consistently operate within the purview of prescribed guidelines but implementing these policies and procedures across organizations and throughout supply chains can pose a significant challenge.

A white paper published by Avetta, a cloud-based global supply chain and risk management provider, which you can download here for free, offers those in management and decision-making capacities a one-stop primer on necessary workplace health and safety protocols.

Titled Workplace Safety 101, the white paper provides a comprehensive glossary of 40 industry terms; lists and explains regulatory bodies and guidelines; offers key considerations for creating a customized workplace plan, and provides a step-by-step framework for implementing goal-oriented safety policies and procedures broken into short, mid, and long-term phases.

In Canada, the two entities that regulate workplace safety at the federal level include Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), which works to promote skilled, efficient, and inclusive labour markets, and Part II of the Canada Labor Code which regulates occupational health and safety to reduce workplace accidents and injuries within jurisdictions.

Avetta’s latest white paper acts as a template companies can use to align their protocols with these agencies’ policies and best practices. It lists eight important guidelines, along with explanations and the rationale behind each component to help organizations frame and update their own workplace action plans.

The white paper also offers a fully realized safety plan broken into phases that progress from immediate measures, including a COVID-19 health and safety plan, PPE hazard assessment, and the labelling of chemical containers, to mid and long-term measures that call for core task job safety analysis, a wall-to-wall safety inspection, and other important policies.

While implementing an effective health and safety plan is imperative, it can also be cost-intensive, can sometimes lead to workforce resistance, and can feel daunting and overly time-consuming. For these reasons, company leaders can be tempted to put necessary activities on the back burner.

This is where Avetta can help.

The company’s Avetta One platform has to date demonstrated a 7 – 12 percent year over year reduction in workplace injuries and a 55 percent reduction in lost workdays. It automatically monitors and measures necessary data and is embedded with supplier evaluation capabilities that help companies mitigate workplace health and safety risks.

Every company needs a compliant, comprehensive health and safety action plan, but they don’t have to go it alone.

Learn how to create a comprehensive injury prevention plan and demonstrate your company’s commitment to a safe and healthy workplace.

Download Avetta’s free Workplace Safety 101 white paper and find out what you can do to bring your safety policies up to regulatory standard.