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We all know that health and safety at work is critical, but with an average fine for non-compliance with UK health and safety regulations being £150,000 it’s got to be worth the investment in an effective employee programme to ensure staff comply with regulations.
The health and safety authorities in the UK have moved away from being advice based, to strongly focused upon compliance, punishing those who they find to be non-compliant. The monetary impact upon business, particularly if you are small, is significant with huge penalties imposed irrespective of ability to pay.
123 - Workers killed in work related accidents. Source: HSE 2022
565,000 - Workers sustained a non -fatal injury. Source: Labour Force Survey 2022
61,713 - Employee non- fatal injuries reported by employers. Source: RIDDOR 2023.
6,000,000 - Working days lost due to none- fatal workplace injuries. Source: Labour Force Survey 2022
36,800,000 - Working days lost due to work-related ill health and none-fatal injuries. Source: Labour Force Survey 2022
Obviously, no employer deliberately sets out to ignore or breach health and safety requirements, but still accidents and incidents occur, and it’s often because employees and/or management lose focus when incidents may occur.
Accidents at work do not just create human tragedies, but they can destroy assets, jobs, and sometimes whole businesses. For all those reasons investing in creating and maintaining an extraordinarily strong safety awareness culture in your company is money well spent.
Safety initiatives take many shapes, from continuous communication campaigns and dialogues, to accompanying incentives, which target personal and employee team safety and the behaviours and actions, which keep people safe and result in efficiency savings.
We have taken the best of these initiatives over the years and rolled them up into an employee engagement programme, utilising technology to engage and communicate with staff, that helps companies embed a culture of safety.
At Neon Agency we have previously worked with organisations in the industrial, petrochemical and transport sectors to design and implement engagement programmes to promote safety campaigns.
A large cement manufacturer ran a fleet of over 300 HGV’s, many with twin trailers, which covered many hundreds of thousands miles per annum, transporting very heavy loads of bagged cement to trade and construction customers around UK.
They had an annual accident rate consisting of incidents including RTA’s, load spills, transfer accidents, which kept their annual fleet insurance premium at over £2 million per annum. They launched a communications campaign with an attached incentive programme, rewarding both drivers, warehouse staff and managers for each period of weeks and months that they achieved a zero-accident target. This had an immediate effect, resulting in a 28% reduction of insurance premiums in the first year. In the following years, a noticeably improved safety conscious attitude among staff was noted by management and further reductions were achieved on insurance cost. Most importantly accident rates fell 50% in year one and by year 3 were under 10% of the original figure.
Safety incentive programs, and safety recognition in general, can be highly advantageous to the organizations that adopt them. A well-defined and well-implemented incentive program can both reduce the number of workplace accidents and increase employee engagement. Moreover, it can function as an ongoing invigorator of safety education, reminding employees that safety standards and HSE regulations are continuously relevant to their operations.
Source: John Rossheim 2023.
At Neon Agency we have also implemented employee engagement programmes for site and office staff, mobile sales forces and van delivery teams.
To discuss your employee engagement and compliance requirements please contact us at info@neon-agency.co.uk.
