Importance of Workplace Health and Safety
Dear colleagues, welcome to the Workplace Health and Safety blog of Navitas Professional Services. This blog has been created to promote health and safety practices in the workplace. Everyone is encouraged to participate and share their concerns or suggestions in the blog to make the workplace safer and healthier. Some of the benefits of a safe and healthy workplace environment include increased job satisfaction, higher performance, greater productivity, improved health and wellbeing, lower workers’ compensation premiums, faster return to work, less workplace injury, lower absenteeism rates, increased individual and team resilience, greater work participation and increased social inclusion. A healthy and safe workplace can be created by; 1. Intervening early and knowing the warning signs 2. Good working Design 3. Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems 1. Intervening early and knowing the warning signs The earlier you notice an employee is experiencing potentia...