Ensuring a safe workplace for our staff is not only a legal requirement, it is also an ethical obligation and, be careful, an ethical obligation. smart talent retention measure. But what should a safe workplace look like? What do we need to look out for in particular in order to ensuring security and motivation of our valuable staff? The answer is in today's article.
A safe workplace is a workplace - factory, workshop, shop, shop, office, etc. - that complies with the basic safety, hygiene and occupational risk prevention standards marked in Spain by the regulation in force.
In our country there are many laws that can help us to implement the various measures for the protection of the health and well-being of our staff, but in the case at hand - in understanding what a safe workplace should look like - there is two laws considered essential:
http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1995/11/10/pdfs/A32590-32611.pdf
In addition, the INSHT - Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo (National Institute for Safety and Hygiene at Work) published a short but interesting PDF document on safe workplaces. We recommend that you download it and read it when you have some time, it is an interesting and very didactic document. http://www.insht.es/InshtWeb/Contenidos/Normativa/GuiasTecnicas/Ficheros/lugares.pdf
Reading through the above legislative references and the various blogs on risk prevention, occupational health and safety it is logical that we should make a biased idea of what should be a safe workplace focusing only on the physical part of the problem. In that we focus only on the presence of EPIS o Personal Protective Equipment, of collective protection measures such as railings o signage, of the ergonomic measurements, The quality of the air or to the adequacy of the lighting according to the job. If we only focus on this physical perspective, we will be committing an error. serious mistake: forget the psychosocial part of the problem.
What are we talking about? That in order to build a truly safe workplace we must working from two different perspectives, but deeply interrelated: physical and psychosocial.
The physical partPhysical protection against specific risks that may arise in the factory, the shop, the office, the classroom... We are talking about, for example, the following, falls to different or the same level, slips, electrocutions, poisonings, cuts, etc..
The psychosocial partOrganisational protections to prevent very specific risks that can disrupt the good working environment of any organisation, risks that are directly detrimental to the work motivation and performance of our employees. Examples? Many: negative stress (distress), burnout syndrome, mental fatigue, etc.
As you can see, a safe workplace is also the one that guarantees a psychosocial comfort that allows our staff to be and to feel good, a sense of welfare which produces happy employees. Do you want more information on this interesting topic? Download now our guide free “How to have happy employees with Flexible Remuneration”
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