Ensuring Employee Safety With Automated Systems

One of the most important things you can do as a business owner is ensure the safety of your employees with automated systems. This benefits your employees, but it also benefits your bottom line. Accidents negatively impact your business, so the best thing to do is avoid them. 

Importance of Employee Safety in the Workplace

Reduces the Risk of Fatalities on the Job

The last thing that anyone wants is to have someone die at their place of business. After an employee dies in an accident, the other employees become fearful that the same thing will happen to them. This may be why several people leave the company. Also, the news of a workplace fatality will travel around town, and if your business had a good reputation at that time, it will no longer be as stellar.  

Reduces the Probability of Workplace Accidents

The cost of workplace accidents is astronomical at $164.9 billion. The costs can be described as lower staff morale, overall compensation costs, medical expenses, loss of property, and lost time and efficiency. These costs can be split into $61 billion for administrative costs, $34.9 billion for medical expenses and $44.8 billion for lost salaries and productivity. Avoiding injuries allows you to avoid these costs. 

Increases Your Employees’ Productivity

The possibility of being hurt at work does not make employees feel great about your company. When they know that the business owners have their safety at the top of their list of priorities, they can stop worrying about it and focus on their jobs.  

The Automated Systems that Can Promote Safety

Surveillance Systems

One option is the “surveillance system,” which watches over the environment to ensure everybody’s safety. Video surveillance systems allow you to monitor your spaces and record the activity in those spaces. It works as a deterrence to prevent people from engaging in criminal activity. If someone does decide to indulge in a criminal act, you will have videotape evidence. 

Alarms

Alarms provide an early warning system to your employees and everyone in the building that there is a danger present. Alarms can be put in place to provide warnings for several hazards, including fires, chemical spills or equipment malfunctions. 

Cons of Having These Automated Systems in the Workplace

Employees May Think They Are Invasive.

With video cameras monitoring your employees’ every move, they may begin to feel as if you do not trust them or that you are invading their privacy. As a result, your employees may begin to feel stressed, unhappy or burned out.  

It May Be a False Sense of Security.

Placing cameras around will reduce the likelihood that someone will want to engage in criminal behavior, but you cannot take for granted that they will prevent all types of crime. If you place cameras at your place of business and then neglect to do anything further to ensure the safety of your building, you may be surprised if anything ever happens in the future. 

This Equipment Is Expensive.

The process of installing security cameras can be very costly. If you have a small business with a small budget, it may not be cost-effective for you to have security cameras.