Protection that works both ways – health and safety training in the workplace
Ever stopped to think about why a business is required to provide adequate health and safety training? It isn’t only for the benefit of employees. Businesses that can prove they’ve trained their workers in every aspect of job related health and safety are immune from court action in the event of accident or injury. Now, we all know that there are risks inherent in everyday life – and we also know that most people are sensible enough to realise that, when an accident happens, it’s exactly that: an accident. No one to blame, no one to charge. However, a small, but potentially financially damaging, segment of the population is always ready to take whatever “blame” they can find and run all the way to court with it: which, in the case of a business that is unable to prove that it has provided health and safety training, can result in hefty damages. The moral is clear – although most businesses provide the right training for all their employees as a matter of course, not so many are able to document it. And that can cause real financial problems. Using a professional outfit to help with all forms of safety training ensures that the documentation is completed and kept correctly – and that can save hundreds of thousands of pounds in the long run. It’s a simple, sad fact that the modern world is beset on all sides by the tyranny of the blame game. Whenever something happens, whenever a person is injured or something breaks, it must, apparently, be someone’s “fault”. Whoever is held legally accountable ends up being the person at fault: the company they represent winds up paying, usually heavily, for something they could have done nothing to prevent. Providing adequately documented health and safety training absolves them of this responsibility. The proof that training has been completed in a legally recognised manner performs what is technically known as “due diligence” – that’s the legal shifting of responsibility for an event or action from employer to employee. If an employer has invested in proper training for its employees, and can show that it has done so, then the legal responsibility for an accident at work rests not with the employer but with the workers. And that means no hefty pay outs for things that, whilst avoidable, were not “caused” by someone at “fault”. No-one would ever suggest that most UK companies have anything other than the best interests of their employees at heart – and that they don’t train their workers well. What one would suggest is that all that health and safety training should be carried out in an officially recognisable and documentable way. If that means hiring a company to ensure that one’s training courses, and the documentation thereof, are done correctly – well, then that’s what should happen. It’s a minimal expenditure that could save huge sums of money in future.
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