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Health and safety training for staff can take many forms and produce many benefits. A good starting point can be to introduce employees to all the fundamentals of health and safety in the workplace. This is vital, since although companies will do their best to create a safe working environment, how employees behave at work can have a big impact on their health and safety. Take lifting, for instance. Some workplaces have regular requirements for heavy and potentially risk-hazardous objects to be carried. In almost all organizations, however, there may be a need to lift heavy objects occasionally. Showing staff the right way to lift and carry large items can have a big impact on reducing injury, especially back injury which is a very common cause of workplace risk. Training staff in fire and other emergency procedures is something which the government regulations require. But going beyond the minimum in this area can make a big difference if something as threatening as a workplace fire occurs. As well as training courses, guide booklets, DVDs and workplace posters on health and safety can also help improve staff awareness of health and safety issues. Your company's adequacy when it comes to health and safety training is part of what is assessed by your regular health and safety audits. These audits and indeed your entire health and safety management can be done internally, providing you have properly trained and qualified staff in place. Particularly for large organizations, however, keeping abreast of changing health and safety regulations and dedicating sufficient employee and management time to handle their own health and safety compliance may make this route increasingly onerous. For such companies, outsourcing health and safety management can be a sound decision. Not only does outsourcing often prove more cost-effective than allocating in-house resources to health and safety management, it also brings the reassurance of knowing that this function will be handled by a dedicated health and safety management firm. Such consultancies focus entirely on this business, and therefore provide a highly professional and detailed service. They should also have the resources needed to handle the requirements of large companies, perhaps across multiple sites and involving hundreds or even thousands of employees.
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