Companies should be doing everything and anything they can to protect their staff in the workplace.
Whether that’s conducting risk assessments to checking in with staff personally, here are a few ways to protect your company staff within the workplace this year and beyond.
Stomp down on any workplace bullying or discrimination
First and foremost, make sure you’re stomping down on any signs of workplace bullying or discrimination. This is something that’s crucial to do, especially with many movements over the years that have highlighted cases of abuse and workplace misconduct that have gone under the radar or dismissed.
As a business, you should be working hard to stomp down on any signs of workplace bullying or discrimination as and when they happen. If you’re made aware of it or it’s been spotted recently, make sure policies and actions are taken to set an example for those who wish to break workplace rules.
Get insurance in place
Insurances are good to have in place, especially when it comes to the health and wellbeing of staff. By having insurance in place, you can avoid any attempts to sue the company for causing damage to employees in some way, shape, or form.
A personal injury lawyer, for example, can be avoided if you’ve got the right insurance in place to protect yourself and your employees.
Conduct risk assessments regularly for workplace safety
Risk assessments are useful to conduct when it comes to improving the safety of the workplace. This means your building operations team should be hot on checking the workplace on a daily basis for any potential dangers or risks that could pose an injury or threat to employees.
It shows that you’ve done everything as a business to create a safe and healthy space, should anything happen that was avoidable and had been made to be avoidable by the business.
Keep everything clean and clutter-free
Keeping your workplace premises clean is highly important when it comes to the safety of your company. It’s not just COVID that we still need to worry about but the clutter that can be created in the average workplace.
Try to keep areas free of clutter and ensure responsibility is held by every department to keep their own areas clean. This includes individual staff members and the clutter they end up creating in their own workstations.
Ramping up cleaning routines with cleaning staff might also be handy during times of the year when the flu and common colds occur.
Check-in with them to address any underlying problems
If there are any underlying problems when it comes to protecting your staff, then it’s best to address them. However, how do you know there’s a problem in the first place? Checking in with your staff through regular meetings is a great way of identifying when there’s an issue at hand that needs sorting out.
While you can’t have eyes everywhere within the business, you can certainly put in the work needed to help monitor the health, safety, and happiness of your employees on a daily basis.