Why is health and safety training important?
By having an effective health and safety training program both the employees and employer benefit equally.
Employees have a safer working environment which in turn can help reduce the number of illnesses and accidents.
Employers has a reduction in lost days due to work related injury absence.
The combination of these two factors helps make for a more productive working environment.
Not forgetting keeping the company on the right side of legislation!
As well as preventing death, injury and ill-health, health and safety training is important as it can help employers:
reduce risk and business costs
reduce employee turnover
reduce employee absences
reduce accidents
reduce threat of legal action
Improve employee motivation
Improve employee health and wellbeing
ensure staff are have adequate training
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