It is important that you protect the health and welfare of your employees for the time that they spend working for you within your business. There are a lot of areas within any business that can prove to be dangerous and even more so within the manufacturing industry itself.
When using tools and equipment, it can be disastrous to health if used incorrectly, for example. Therefore, it is important that you provide full training to those members of staff that have job roles that incorporate using these. This also goes for training any members of staff that have to use chemicals.
Make sure that your employees fully understand what happens when both the chemicals and the tools and equipment are not used responsibly, as well as the correct safety clothing and accessories that go with each particular job. Ensure that they sign for the training and that they have no further questions. This is so that they can be held responsible for their actions should anything go wrong.
Guarding Against Injuries
Within any manufacturing business, there are a lot of repetitive movements that your employees have to make. This can cause all kinds of problems, from muscular through to skeletal issues. For the sake of your workforce and to protect any investment you have made in them as regards training, it is a good idea to put in place solutions that will alleviate them before it is too late.
Depending on what type of manufacturing business it is that you are running will depend on what the best solutions are for your workforce. However, installing a conveyor system to move your products from one operator to the next will eliminate movements such as picking items up from floor level and twisting awkwardly, plus any issues that may arise from your workers carrying products around the factory.
Providing the Right Ventilation
It is also important to provide the right ventilation for your workers, and this is not just about installing an air conditioning unit to keep air circulation but also in areas where there is specific equipment being for soldering or welding.
The fumes from both soldering and welding can be dangerous to health and have been linked to diseases of the respiratory system as well as other areas of the body. These diseases include cancers as well as COPD.
It is therefore essential that you install soldering and welding fume solutions in order to keep all your employees and not just your welders or solderers safe from these devastating diseases that will not only affect their lives and those of their loved ones but also your business as well.
Introducing Protocols
Of course, not all hazards in the workplace are due to lifting, twisting, carrying, or fumes, there are plenty of other hazards which can be eliminated by just tidying up your areas and making sure that walkways are kept clear, fire exits are easily accessible, spillages are cleaned up, and hygiene standards are reached and kept.
It is therefore important that you provide your employees time at the end of their shift to clear down their area ready for the next day or the next shift. This time should be within working hours, and you should not expect your employees to carry out this daily routine in their own time.
