Health and safety refers to a set of guidelines used in workplaces to ensure the protection of workers during work and to manage emergencies when they occur. As an employer, you are mandated by the law to teach your employees how to stay safe during work. It’s also mandatory that emergency equipment is available and employees know how to use them. Failure to do this leads to an annual death toll of about 2 million workers globally. This makes Health and safety training for companies either in Lagos, Nigeria or anywhere else a priority.
Health and safety isn’t a new trend; it was born in the 1800’s during the industrial revolution.
The industrial revolution marked the introduction of machinery e.g forklifts in workplaces. With their introduction came hazards e.g exposure to fumes, fir,e explosions. Workers began complaining and governments in response passed safety regulations to protect workers which employers were mandated to enforce.
Thus you have the numerous health and safety training programs, companies in Lagos and other places are required to keep.
The best Health and safety training for companies is not limited to employees wearing goggles and safety boots.
Health and safety training for companies in Nigeria goes beyond the importance of safety equipment like helmets in construction sites. While this is important, a Professional Health and Safety training will however include emergency preparedness plans too.
What’s an emergency readiness plan for companies?
An emergency readiness plan is a go-to guide for workplaces which informs them on steps to take when emergencies occur. It includes a list of risks present in your workplace and what to do when the uneventful happens e.g fire, accidents.
It’s important your staff know how to address an emergency and have someone they can reach when an emergency occurs.
Below are measures you can take now to ensure a safe work environment.
- Provide emergency training for workers: It’s important that health and safety skills like first aid and CPR are learnt by employees in addition to their core job skills. This gives several benefits but chief amongst them is the ability for workers to handle minor injuries like cuts to more severe ones like cardiac arrest.
- Engage an emergency expert: An emergency expert’s sole skill lies in spotting work hazards on your behalf! Engaging the services of one like ERA provides intriguing insights into potential work hazards and how to avoid them.
For instance did you know that sitting still for extended periods is an inactive lifestyle that contributes to cardiac arrest? An emergency partner could help detect this in your workplace and suggest standing breaks to keep employees active.
- Practice practice practice: with a guideline on what to do if an accident occurs you can run drills i.e staged emergency scenarios. The more detailed your drills are the better prepared your team is for an emergency..
- Encourage dialogue: You can nominate a safety captain whose job it is to gather the opinions of other workers and report them to management.
- Inspections: Emergency partners are not only for designing emergency response plans; they are for inspecting them too. A solid emergency partner would have due dates for inspections to ensure guidelines are being met.
Keep your workplace safe and employees emergency ready.
ERA conducts comprehensive health and safety training in Lagos and Nigeria for companies which also includes emergency response planning.
As an emergency response company partnering with ERA gives you access to
- Professional first aid training and CPR certification training for staff: Give your employees professional first aid training with life saving skills like CPR attached. This ensures everyone in your workplace is super ready to arrest life threatening situations like loss of consciousness and even cardiac arrest.
- Ambulance services: provide your staff with a fleet of efficient ambulance services at their beck and call through our signal app which employees can use to request ambulance services and be sure of arrival between 10-30 minutes.
The alarming number of collapsed buildings in Lagos state tells you the importance of emergency preparedness for your company. With a professional plan, you can prevent an emergency from happening and limit the loss of lives if it occurs.
Start your emergency preparedness plan now and ensure your workplace is ready for future emergencies.
