Why Safety
Culture of Caring™
Creating a Culture of Caring™ for your employees’ well-being is the single most important step in saving money on your workers’ compensation. That culture will maximize your productivity, efficiencies and profits (PEP Maximizer™). A Culture of Caring™ is the secret to optimizing performance as an organization.
Friedlander Group can help you create a Culture of Caring™.
Top management’s message of caring must be communicated by actions, not just words.
It begins with the interview process, who’s hired, and who’s fired. It’s reinforced by safety training, safety contests, safety inspections, claims’ trend analysis, safety committee accountability, safety posters, injury management, local health-care provider relationships, and light-duty options that enable employees to return to work sooner.
When employees work together with management to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions, claims decline and profits increase.
Safety is largely intuitive. People know that wet floors, poorly stacked boxes, dull knives, defective ladders and stairways, and heavy lifting can cause accidents and injuries. Many claims can be avoided if more attention is paid to detail and problems are anticipated, and safety is brought into focus organizationally. Safety committee members should be required to take responsibility for safety awareness and auditing.
Safety will be improved with training on proper lifting techniques, driver screening, handling of chemicals, and the importance of wearing proper safety goggles and shoes, as examples. Fortunately, a large selection of safety videos is available, and there are experienced safety consultants who can provide on-site training.
