| Health and safety are two words you will come to | | | | Legal Duties of the Employer: A fair employer will |
| know intimately should you ever have your own | | | | uphold his or her legal duties. It's smart business |
| business. This is with good reason. You want your | | | | because it keeps the lines of communication open |
| employees, your customers, and anyone else you | | | | between you and your team, and it can save you a lot |
| come into contact with to be well taken care of, so | | | | of trouble down the road. Your Toolbox Talks should |
| that the impression your business leaves on the world | | | | have these responsibilities included. |
| at large is a positive one that translates into | | | | General Site Health & Safety: No matter what |
| exponential growth and development. But health and | | | | business you are in, it is always beneficial to have |
| safety can be tricky concepts in the land of the | | | | general health and safety rules in place whenever you |
| legalese. It is important that you show the government | | | | or your employees find yourselves in at-risk situations. |
| you are doing all you can to meet their legal | | | | In the even of an emergency, these procedures can |
| requirements. Keep yourself and others covered - in | | | | also help you know where to go, what to do, and |
| other words, wrap a warm blanket of protection | | | | whom to contact, so that calm heads prevail. |
| around your business and the people that matter most | | | | Accident prevention and control: The best way to deal |
| to you with Toolbox Talks. Toolbox Talks give you a | | | | with an emergency, of course, is to not have one in |
| way to make the complicated easy to understand. It | | | | the first place. You can avoid a lot of the dangers that |
| does this through the following: | | | | you will encounter by educating your employees on |
| Convenience: If it was up to you to research, think, and | | | | accident prevention and control. This makes sure that |
| write all of your safety and health documents, then | | | | proper standards are being met to avoid risk or harm. |
| you would virtually never have time to conduct | | | | And should a misstep occur, it can keep other |
| business. What the authorities expect of you is simply | | | | employees and property safe until the issue can be |
| too great of a burden to accomplish without help. | | | | further (and more safely) addressed. |
| Make sure that you and your employees have all the | | | | These are just some of the basics that should be |
| legal documents that you need, ready and waiting in | | | | made available in your Toolbox Talks. It's up to you to |
| the event you should need them. | | | | be vigilant in making sure that your business complies |
| General Safety Legislation: In addition to following the | | | | with the law. But many service providers are out there |
| law, it's always good to know the law. Your Toolbox | | | | to help show you the way and take the guesswork |
| Talks should always make this information available, | | | | out of it all. Use them to your advantage. Only then will |
| not just for your employees' benefit, but for your own | | | | you be able to avoid risk and achieve the rewards! |
| as well. | | | | |