IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY TRAININGS

Greetings of the day!

Hope all are working in a safe and healthy manner.

The subject mentioned topic is a basic information for all site engineer / in-charge.

Thousands of workplace accident each year can be attributed to one main issue, a lack of proper safety training. Safety training isn’t just a good idea, company / organization regulations require that your personnel must be trained in a proper way.

Often, it is argued that training is unnecessary because the employee in question had many years of experience with the given work. Years of experience will mean that they most likely know how to perform a task, but do they know how to perform it safely? Do they know what is required of them by safety law?

Filling Safety Forms

To help keep your employees safe, a site engineer/ in-charge must start filling up Safety forms on weekly basis. Forms will help site engineers to check the things again and again.  These safety forms must be signed by the team leaders and safety watch person in your team. Safety Form is attached for your further reference.

Additional Benefits of Proper Safety Training

Beyond compliance, safety training is just a good idea. Proper training help workers understand their rights, gives an overview of specific hazards to which they may be exposed to and helps them to be able to protect themselves against those hazards. Engineer / in-charge should demonstrate and continue to demonstrate their understanding of the subject matter.

For example, if your workers do not know how to use, equip and adjust a harness properly, have no concept of fall clearance, are connecting to insufficient anchor points, and/or are not performing satisfactory inspections of the equipment, the training will be deemed inefficient.

This also applies to you, the engineer, the in-charge, the instructor or even the manager. For those of you who have never used / equipped a fall protection harness before, go get one and, with no instruction, put it on. You would be surprised at how much practical knowledge you can acquire by familiarizing yourself with the equipment your workers use on a regular basis.

Try to put yourself at your workers place, answer their questions before they come up and provide practical advice and actional information.

The Cost of Not Doing Safety Training

A couple of hours of downtime for safety training will save you and your company time and money. There is an incredible amount of money spent on medical bills, insurance premium increases, training an injured employee’s replacement, equipment damage and lawsuits.

But, more important than any of this, is the fact that safety training could save the life of one of your employees.

NOTE: 

Treating your team/subordinates as a family will help each and every one to make a safe work environment.

Every site engineer has to understand their own duty to ensure Safety. Workers/Labors will only understand if you all will give them trainings on daily basis and demonstrate them what exactly safety is and what is it’s benefits.

Hope all are agreed to the statements mentioned above.  

You can prevent workers from being unsafe by giving them regular trainings !!

So train your workers and manage your site Safely !!!

THINK SAFETY WORK SAFELY