The Moral Case For Managing Health and Safety

Chief Executive Officers, Managing Directors, senior leadership teams and their managers all hold an accountability and responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of their workforce in their hands.

Senior managers can delegate responsibilities, but they cannot delegate their accountabilities.

Behind each of these statistics is a person – someone who was just doing their job, or an innocent by-stander, who lost their life or whose life has changed, in some cases permanently, through a workplace accident or ill-health.  A study in 2015 found that of all reported accidents, 70% were preventable, if better H&S management was in place. 

If accidents and occupational ill-health are prevented, through often inexpensive, proactive health and safety management actions, it will improve the H&S culture, staff morale, increase productivity, reduce the risk of litigation, fines etc and importantly, provide your organisation with a happy, healthy workforce!

148

Workers killed at work

78,000

Non fatal injuries reported under RIDDOR

175,000

Over 7 day absence injuries occured

1.1M

people suffering work related illness

27M

working days lost due to work related illness and injury

£13.8Bn

the amount workplace ill health has cost society

There’s little doubt your senior leadership teams, Board members, Trustees or Shareholders will have an objective to reduce the burden of risk to the organisation from accidents, occupational ill-health and H&S non-compliance.

With Safety and Health 1st providing ‘retained’ H&S services to your organisation, you will measurably improve the health and safety culture which in turn will reduce accident-injury liabilities and insurance premium and improve staff morale, wellbeing and productivity.