The Importance of Safety
Why is safety important? This is the first question that someone asks me when I tell hem/her that my major is industrial safety. Some people don not know the major is existed, and some of them don’t know the importance of safety or safety professionals in workplace.
A serious workplace injury or death changes lives forever for families, friends, communities, and coworkers too. Human loss and suffering is immeasurable. Every person who leaves for work in the morning should expect to return home at night in good health. Can you imagine the knock on the door to tell you your loved one will never be returning home? Or the phone call to say he’s in the hospital and may never walk again? Ensuring that husbands return to their wives, wives to their husbands, parents to their children, and friends to their friends that is the most important reason to create a safe and healthy work environment.
Another reason to a safe workplace is to reduce costs to the business, If a worker is injured on the job, it costs the company in lost work hours, increased insurance rates, workers’ compensation premiums and possible litigation. Productivity is lost when other workers have to stop work to deal with the injury. Even after the injured employee has been sent home or taken to the hospital, other employees may be distracted or need to take time off from work in the aftermath of the incident.
In these ways and others workplace safety is about much more than legislation. It’s about creating the kind of productive, efficient, happy and inspiring workplace we all want to be part of. It’s about creating a highly profitable company. And that’s why it’s important.
