With the festive season rapidly approaching, it is important employers focus on ensuring all your workers stay safe. Despite the festive season being a notoriously busy, employers should remind managers, supervisors & employees of workpalce safety.
Festive Season Safety – The festive season is renowned as a period when injuries occur. Each year ABILITY GROUP assist many normal or festive season related workpalkce injuries.
Employers can help prevent workplace injuries by remaining focused on injury prevention and increasing safety measures in the lead up to the festive season.
Below is an extract from WorkCover QLD who provide useful tips and suggestions for employers to keep your workplace sfaety and to manage the staffing arrangement during the busy Christmas period:
- Ensure all new staff, whether full-time or casual, receive a proper safety induction
Provide all new staff with details about correct manual handling techniques, store processes and procedures required of them in relation to safe work practices and reporting injuries. - Hold regular ‘Tool Box Talks’
Make sure ‘Tool Box Talks’ continue during the busy period and remind workers about the importance of reporting all injuries and near misses, regardless of how busy they are. This allows for preventative measures to be put in place and ensures injured workers receive the necessary medical attention. - Watch out for signs of fatigue
If your staff are ‘burning the candle at both ends’ and working additional shifts they may be more susceptible to momentary lapses in concentration which can result in work related accidents. To avoid this, ensure staff are adhering to their break times and not being left to perform repetitive tasks for excessive periods of time. - Stretching program
Introduce a stretching program at the start and finish of each shift to minimise the risk of strains and sprains.
Employers can also encourage their workers to stay safe over the holiday season by reminding them to:
- drive safely
- consume alcohol in moderation
- avoid overindulging in rich foods
- spend some time relaxing; and
- try to get some physical exercise.
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Source: WorkCover QLD
Title: What can you do to keep your workers safe during the festive season?
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