Companies subject to the complex array of health and safety laws and regulations risk steep penalties or commercial disruption if noncompliance forces them to shut down. Organisations must be prepared in order to avoid regulatory and enforcement surprises.
Most organisations prioritise workforce safety. The trouble is, the health and safety professionals responsible for running workplace safety programmes spend too much time on compliance paperwork and tasks. There are accidents to record and incidents to report, site inspections to conduct and job hazards to remediate. Even then, compliance can be deprioritised by the unexpected. A workplace accident can lead to an OSHA fine, or a lawsuit hits the 24-hour news cycle. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded this challenge by adding a renewed emphasis on protecting employee health in the workplace and employee health in the workplace, backed by new standards for workplace safety.
Understanding and accounting for workplace safety is a complex set of intertwined processes that start at the top of the organisation. Workplace health and safety requires thoughtful and well-communicated plans that involve everyone in the organisation. Taking a risk-based approach by integrating health and safety management into all risk and compliance efforts. Support from integrated risk and compliance technology is the only way to ensure employees stay healthy on the job and return home safely every day.
Identify workplace safety risks with risk assessments, job hazard analyses, site inspections, and safety audits. View these risks in context of the business and design, and use risk management measures to protect the workforce.
Comply with multiple safety standards and regulations, including OSHA 1910, ISO 45001, CDC back-to-work guidelines, and more. Design and implement policies & procedures to enforce compliance and reduce the risk of fines.
Capture details about workplace incidents, accidents, illnesses, and near-misses, conduct investigations; and design and implement corrective actions and risk remediation plans.
Document, manage, and report securely on health information related to workplace accidents, illnesses, and near-misses, and ensure PII and PHI data privacy is maintained.
Create OSHA 300, 300A and 301 reports efficiently, and communicate risk and compliance status to multiple audiences with dashboards, reports, and messaging tailored to each role.
Build a workplace safety culture by incorporating safety measures into daily operations and encouraging interdepartmental collaboration on safety initiatives.