A recent survey by Sphera has shed light on the importance of safety for companies but also identified a gap between having a culture of safety and actually improving workplace safety processes. Nearly every business wants to keep their employees safe, healthy, happy, and productive. But moving from wanting something and making it happen are two different things and, according to the survey, only about 40% of companies have a well-defined roadmap to improve safety performance. 

Safety managers are under a lot of pressure these days. They're dealing with an unprecedented labor shortage, a pandemic, and supply chain issues on top of their everyday challenges of keeping workers safe. 

In a recent article, Forbes suggested that workplace safety is not getting the attention that it should. And we tend to agree. They provide 5 actions that industrial companies can take to address safety at work:

As we help industrial companies prevent and filter out musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to reduce costs and lost work time, we wanted to share our research on workplace injuries.