Keeping up with safety measures and ensuring your employees comply can be tricky. You need to make sure you have plenty of safety products such as eye protection, first aid kits and work earplugs. You also have to figure out how you can encourage your employees to comply and have a system in place to check. Without these ingredients to a successful safety program, you may find yourself in a bad spot if an employee is injured or an inspector should happen to stop by.
One key to a successful safety program is to appoint one or two employees to manage the system. Rather than having safety products a part of normal purchasing, have an employee take regular inventory on safety products and submit their order through purchasing in plenty of time to ensure supply doesnt run low. Certain items such as foam earplugs can be kept in large bulk amounts.
Your employee in charge of safety inventory should also keep the safety supply area organized. First aid kits need regular straightening to ensure items can be found quickly. Jumbled clutter in a safety area makes it difficult for employees to grab what they need and return to the work floor. They might even opt to skip grabbing their earplugs or safety glasses if the items cannot be easily found. Foam earplug dispensers can be mounted on the wall and the earplugs are dispensed one at a time, eliminating waste.
Foam earplug dispensers are also highly visible, which is another key component to ensure safety compliance. Moldex earplugs come in bright colours, which makes it easy for your safety manager to check compliance. There are various protection levels as well, so no matter what your noise levels are, you can be sure your employees hearing will be protected.
Set up a reward system for compliance. Nominate one employee each month for Safest Employee of the Month and offer a bonus or dinner gift card. Reward is always the best way to encourage employees to perform at their very best.
Cheers!
Meghan