Actually the jurisdiction of Work-Safe-BC that comes under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation made it compulsory for all small scale businesses to start a health and safety program. Basically the purpose of this program is to avoid or minimize the work related injuries and diseases that could happen in the workplace. So as an owner of the organization it is your responsibility to keep your employees safe from all kinds of injuries.

You could set up the scope of this safety and health program according to the size of business you are running. Actually it is easy for small scale companies to set up their health and safety policies in just few pages. Here in this article we are giving you some tips that you could apply for setting up health and safety regulations for protecting your business.

1. Creating a safety plans in workplace:

First thing that you should prefer to do is to promote the workplace health and safety among employees. Have seminars in this topic, and make your employees aware of safety strategies that you are making. Develop the safety plan for your organization and discuss it will your employees.

Another step that you could take in this regard is to inspect your workplace and equipment on regular basis so that you could make sure your workers are safe. Testing of equipment is very important and repair it when needed as soon as possible.

Its better if organization have gone through proper testing of Emergency Lights present on the escape routes. These emergency lights should be illuminated at the time of emergency so you should test it after some as it’s the most important thing. Basically emergency lighting testing is compulsory for all HMO properties. These routes are especially meant for people that they should take to leave the building in emergency situation.

So it is very important that you use emergency lights in your safe exits so that you could avoid risks.

Next step that you could take is to train your employees to apply the safety procedures in case of emergency. That’s why it is so important that you make proper exit ways, plans and install emergency equipment for workers so that they could protect them and get out of the place of incident.

You should investigate all the past cases or incidents that happened in your company. Find out the main cause of that incident and try to avoid that incident to happen again and for this you have to take all the preventive measures. So that you could save your workers from these types of incidents as much as possible.

Next thing that you should prefer to do is to maintain all records even about the smallest event so that you could warn your employees and ask them to take all the preventive measures on regular basis.