Workforce Management

Housekeeping for Safety

Ella Baker
Reading time 3 Mins
Published on Oct 12
Share

Not only does it make a good first impression on visitors and employees, housekeeping is crucial to workplace safety. Keeping your workplace organized, free of clutter, and generally hazard free can also improve productivity and morale while preventing injuries. Read on to learn more about how good housekeeping helps to lay the basic foundation for accident prevention in the workplace.

Improve worker safety

Besides creating a more pleasing work environment, proper housekeeping can ensure worker safety. Preventing trips, slips, fire hazards, and falling objects can greatly reduce your workers’ compensation exposure and help keep workers on the job.

By keeping walkways and work areas free of clutter and spills, your workers will experience fewer trip and slip accidents. Reducing the amount of dust, debris, waste, and other flammable materials can also limit your exposure to fire hazards. Careful storage of materials, tools, and equipment can prevent employees from being struck by falling materials, particularly when retrieving equipment from shelves. Keeping areas free of clutter also allows for more timely maintenance of machinery, reducing injuries due to malfunctioning equipment.

Improve worker health

Proper workplace housekeeping can also improve worker health. By implementing regular cleaning schedules, sanitizing work stations, and providing antibacterial products, you can limit the spread of illnesses and disease. This can be especially important during winter weather months when colds and flus can easily spread. Regular maintenance of ventilation systems used for heating and cooling can also limit the spread of dust and vapors that may irritate allergies or cause other adverse reactions.

Increase productivity

Since safer work environments lead to healthier workers and increased morale, proper housekeeping can also help your employees be more productive. Tidy and clean work spaces allow for more efficient use of the space, enabling your employees to accomplish more in less time. Clean work areas also increase the likelihood of early detection of damage or needed repairs, reducing costly delays and downtime from deferred maintenance.

Safe with Sheakley

Keeping your workforce safe is priority one for your company. Sheakley can help you develop better policies and provide assistance with developing safety programs that include better housekeeping procedures to help you achieve your safety goals. Our experts are here to keep your employees and your business safe. Sheakley’s Workforce Management Services experts provide complete safety resources for your company.

Get your free safety consultation today with an expert from Sheakley. Stay up-to-date on all things Sheakley by subscribing to our blog and following us on social media. Join in the discussion by commenting below.


You may want to read

See all articles
X
X
X
X