subject: Why Chas Accreditation Is Important To Your Business [print this page] CHAS Accreditation is designed to give your employees the safety information that they need to make the workplace a safe place to be. Yet there are many businesses out there, who fail to adhere to the standards of quality represented by CHAS Accreditation each year, and the oversight or corner cutting (whatever you wish to call it) can lead to catastrophes on both personal and financial levels. Businesses often hesitate to invest in training because the focus can too often be on generating revenue or focusing on the primary orders of business before safety. After all, everyone needs to get ahead in life, but if you try to at the cost of health and safety, here is what it can mean for your business:
Unwanted attention from government agencies. Say you are in the transportation industry, and your drivers are constantly unprepared for roadside inspections and other common encounters with state or local authorities. That can result in some pretty hefty fines. It can lead to the company becoming a target for law enforcement. It can open you up to driver or pedestrian lawsuits in the event of an accident. In effect, it can kill your business to make these oversights.
On the job accidents. Too often, businesses think about success and failure in a financial regard while not realizing that there is a heartbeat, which drives daily operations. When you overlook this fact, your employees can be put in harm's way. Not only is this bad for business, but it also affects everyone that your employee is close to; everyone they love. Losing sight of the human equation too often leads to unsafe working conditions and greater possibility of personal tragedy.
A bad reputation in the community. Don't think that just because the Internet has given you a seemingly infinite customer base that you are in the clear. By "community," that can mean the people who live in the vicinity of the business, or it can mean the people most likely to come into contact with you. In other words, your customers. Gone are the days where you can sweep something under the carpet or venture out into another sector and hope past disasters fade into obscurity. When something goes wrong, it will follow you wherever you go and get back to the people who keep you in business.
Loss of productivity. So many businesses are reluctant to go full throttle with CHAS Accreditation because they fear the loss of productivity. Training employees on the measures of health and safety doesn't pass more product off the assembly line or answer customer calls. But it does give your employees the tools they need to avoid disaster and keep your organization in the black.
by: Gen Wright
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