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Absenteeism Could Be Draining Your Profits
So many small businesses treat Health and Safety with certain contempt because of the wrongly held belief that the cost to implement Health and Safety procedures properly is a waste of time and effort.
Well, I want to show you some evidence to prove that absenteeism could be draining your profits. In fact you will come to realise that you will actually start to save not only time and money, but gain many other benefits as well.
Any company not monitoring absenteeism within their workforce is pouring a percentage of their profits down the drain. These companies blindly accept that someone taking a few days off through sickness is just a fact of life that they have to put up with and can do nothing about. The real fact of life is that they can improve absenteeism rates if only that had a few simple Health and Safety procedures in place and the cost of time and effort in doing so would quickly be repaid by savings in lost and down time.
Here are the latest Health and Safety Executives figures regarding illnesses, injuries and working days lost which may make some employers reconsider their opinion on the matter. Just take a look at these facts and then take a few minutes to digest them. I think they will give you plenty of food for thought.
Illness
2.1 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
1.3 million of these cases were suffered by people working during the year, of which 563 000 were new cases.
2056 people died of mesothelioma (2006), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases.
Injuries
229 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
136 771 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 517.9 per 100 000 employees..
299 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 1000 per 100 000 workers.
Working days lost
34 million days were lost overall (1.4 days per worker), 28 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.
Amazing figures I think you will agree. But these and your own health and safety statistics can be improved, proving a benefit to both your business and your employees.
No matter what the size of your company you can save money from lost productivity if you make the effort to implement some simple procedures to monitor absenteeism through illness within your workforce. You owe it to yourself and your company as well as towards your employees to do something about it now.
About the Author Steve runs his own health and safety advisory service for small to medium sized business in the Bournemouth and Poole area of Dorset in the U.K.. So if you are in need of some health and safety advice visit his website which is at http://www.healthandsafetyadvice.net
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