{"id":13711,"date":"2024-04-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirezdemo.xyz\/industrial-safety\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:51:49","slug":"industrial-safety-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eptura.com\/discover-more\/blog\/industrial-safety-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is industrial safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industrial safety management is how you create and maintain a work environment that is both safe and efficient. You use it to minimize risk, keeping both the assets and people in the facility from harm. Without good, consistent safety management, you quickly find yourself struggling with accidents that shut down production and expose your organization to costly reputational damage, regulatory penalties, and both civil litigation and criminal prosecution.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is industrial safety management?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Industrial safety management helps you maintain the safety of everyone and everything at your facility. Safety management helps you avoid unscheduled downtime and legal liabilities, both of which cost you time and money.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) is the main regulatory body that maintains and enforces the standard procedures and requirements for ensuring industrial safety in the United States. Generally, if there is a question about safety, OSHA is part of the answer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the benefits of industrial safety management?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

No matter your industry, the objective of all industrial safety management is to keep your work environment accident free.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And being safe pays in more ways than one.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, you avoid the costs connected to onsite accidents, including insurance, litigation, prosecution, and damage to the organization\u2019s reputation.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, safety helps you avoid unscheduled downtime. Remember, as soon as there\u2019s an accident, everything stops. In a production setting, it can be your entire line. In a warehouse, it can be the whole loading dock. An accident with one asset can mean all similar assets now need to come offline to be checked or upgraded.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, the right safety program can promote better overall performance. When people in your facility can see that the organization running it cares about them, it boosts morale. People want to feel their company cares about them, and everything from having properly displayed signage to a fully stocked supply closet of personal protective equipment (PPE) shows that the company cares.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the costs of industrial accidents?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

According to the National Safety Council, the total <\/span>cost of work injuries<\/span><\/a> in 2021 was $167.0 billion.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside that massive total are:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n