No Budget for Additional Safety Team Members?

As people go back to work, find new jobs, and businesses open their doors again, the economy will expand rapidly. A direct result of this will be a greater demand for goods.

Many industries have already begun ramping up production across most of industries, including construction, energy, transportation, and manufacturing. With more workers hard at work, there are going to be more industrial injuries. 

Most safety managers have a strong need to augment their safety teams to keep their staff healthier, increase productivity, and reduce injury costs and lost work time.

The major hurdle nearly always comes down to a lack of budget. At most companies, the mandate is always cutting costs while maintaining or even improving productivity. Unfortunately, the environmental health and safety budget is seen as an expense and so more of the budget goes toward the revenue-generating activities. 

So what is the answer? 
Having additional safety team members on hand, especially if you have several locations, to help prevent injuries and triage them after-the-fact is out of the question for many businesses. 

But a virtual solution could be that answer for your industrial company. Rather than having one new full-time safety team member onsite—who may have to travel to additional locations—companies can still provide ergonomic assessments, educational programs, and possibly triage injuries with a virtual solution.

This gives industrial companies access to these tools at every location, no matter how many people you employee or which shift they work, for a much lower cost than salaried employees. 

What does a virtual solution look like? 
A quality virtual injury prevention and safety incident response platform should give your workers virtual access to specialists who can provide: 

Occupational Incident Telehealth Triage

• Reduce cost of days away, avoidable claims and errant recordables through 24/7 guidance by industrial medical professionals who have robust knowledge of OSHA First Aid
• Save time by triaging work related injuries onsite with medical providers via tele-video, avoiding missed work time in transit and in clinic waiting rooms
• Decrease recordables for minor incidents by avoiding ER and clinics where medical treatments are inappropriately provided

Virtual Injury Prevention

• Increase safety by providing expert care and support for every employee on every shift at every location including smaller and remote facilities
• Increase employee morale by offering an enhanced wellness program delivering custom conditioning, nutrition, and sleep programs that drives productivity
• Expand options for self-care treatment for aches and pains that prevent progression of non-work injuries

Ergonomics & Human Performance

• Proactively eliminate common injuries through jobsite analysis and coaching to improve pre-work program and reduce MSK and repetitive motion
• Reduce risk of recordables and claims by conducting personalized job coaching based on worksites to increase preventative programs such as pre-shift warmups and micro breaks 
• Enrich prevention programs by tailoring stretch, flex and strengthening routines specifically tied to work stations and proactively avoid repetitive motion issues

With a safety system like this in place, you'll be able to expand your company's safety team to remote locations and even late shifts through virtual technology that will give you all the above as well as improve communication and access to training, stretching, and other injury prevention programs... for a much lower cost than hiring new team members. 

If you'd like to learn more, reach out to Healthy Roster today to talk to one of a specialists about our VIP platform today!