1. Managing health risks at work
Many small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) don’t know all of the occupational health risks faced by their employees. The campaign aims to provide information, and tools to help businesses manage common health risks.
Poor working conditions can have a negative impact
- economically on the company
- on the workers
- on the local community.
It therefore makes good business sense for employers to protect the health and improve morale of their workforce.
The Introducing Health Risks at Work DVD is a 10 minute introduction to the topics covered by the campaign. It can be shared with employees and managers, and used in training sessions as a means of starting conversations about issues in your workplace.
Good work is good for health, but not all work is healthy. Work can have a negative physical and mental impact, on workers if they are exposed to substances or situations that are damaging.
These risks to health can be managed, and ill health prevented, if you identify sources of harm and implement measures to manage them. The campaign topics covered are
These pages and video links are designed to introduce you, and your workers, to common health risks. Each topic can be used separately to raise awareness of a specific risk in your workplace.
Online training
Healthy Working Lives have an online training course entitled Health Risks at Work to help managers understand in more detail
- how workplace exposures can impact on the health of their staff
- the steps that can be taken to protect workers.
Go to the Health Risks at Work training course
By working through the online training and reading through the chapters of Health Risks at Work, many managers and individual employees will be able to find advice relating to their workplace.