When you hire employees, you simultaneously take on a host of responsibilities. As a business owner, you immediately have to take your employees’ health, well-being, and happiness into consideration. To minimize the risk of accidents and injuries, you must effectively train your staff on how to conduct themselves in the workplace. Here are a few different ways that you should consider training your staff!
Conduct Workplace Tours
It’s extremely important that all of your staff are familiar with the various departments that help produce the product or service you are selling. If your advertising team can see the factories where the products they’re promoting are made, they can convey more information to customers. More importantly, they will understand the risks involved and act accordingly. Conduct plant tours for your employees. This will give them first-hand knowledge of what areas of the building they should be more careful in. Witnessing the manufacturing process familiarizes everyone, and helps to reduce workplace injuries.
Conduct Health and Safety Training
Health and safety training is an absolute essential for any workplace. It helps to protect your staff while ensuring that they can aid each other and visitors. Here are two areas of health and safety training you should focus on immediately.
First Aid
Technically, you only need one member of staff on each shift to be trained in first aid. However, it’s a good idea to train as many of your employees in first aid as possible. Why? Well, a major incident could result in multiple people needing to be treated at once and you never know when the individual harmed may need first aid carried out on them too. Enroll as many staff members as possible on official training courses.
Proper Lifting
Most jobs will require lifting of some sort. Whether it’s a light load or a heavy load, your staff should be thoroughly briefed in the correct lifting techniques. When lifting anything of any weight, they should keep a wide base of support by ensuring that the legs are shoulder width apart. They should then squat down, bending at their knees and their hips as necessary, and slowly lift the object while maintaining good posture (which involves looking ahead with a straight back).
These are just a few different areas that you should train your staff in. Sure, it may require thought, effort, and even financial investment. But see the entire training process as just that – an investment. At the end of the day, the more you put into your training processes, the more you will ultimately gain from your employees!
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