Health & safety management can be a minefield, and knowing whether you are good to go, or whether safety is an issue depends upon the management of the health & safety issues relevant to the specific task. Effective health & safety management will require the management of safety issues which range from health & safety clothing to the operation of heavy industrial machinery, tools and even vehicles.
Workers need to know if they're good to go, rather than hanging around, and here is where one of the biggest challenges lies, because often health & safety procedures require workers to either fill in complicated forms, carry out length safety procedures or complete various other time-consuming requirements laid down by the management.
It's often for this reason that health & safety regulations are deliberately overlooked and regardless of whether the worker and the equipment is genuinely good to go, often work will be carried out, tools used or equipment and vehicles taken out without thorough and effective health & safety management checks being carried out.
Not only does this significantly increase the chance of an accident or the increase of risk, but it also prevents the management responsible for health & safety from knowing whether or not there is a safety problem.
Ultimately the management will still be responsible for the health & welfare of workers and the safe use of equipment and vehicles, and in the case of an accident will almost certainly be responsible. But if health & safety procedures are not being followed, this takes away the chance for management to reduce the risks proactively.
In addition, audits that are required to be carried out may well result in highly misleading data suggesting that equipment is in a safe condition when the reality is that safety checks have simply been overlooked, missed or deliberately falsified.
In many ways it is easy to understand why this happens, since often workers are under pressure from the management to get the job done quickly, and many health & safety management procedures can seem very lengthy, time-consuming and cause delays that may seem unnecessary.
There is a further complication in that many businesses, workshops and industries grow organically, adding on features, functions and departments, replacing or upgrading equipment, and taking on new staff. In each case where change takes place there is the likely need for additional health & safety management action, either through training, auditing, or the introduction of rules, regulations, safety procedures or checklists.
Yet the wide variety of safety procedures can in themselves be quite confusing, and in some cases can almost seem contradictory. For workers having to learn half a dozen different health & safety management procedures before knowing whether they are good to go or not, it can all seem rather unnecessary.
To all of these problems, there is a single solution, however. There is a health & safety management system on the market called Good to Go, and it provides a number of differences that can really help to make things easier and safer for both the management in charge of dealing with health & safety matters and those workers who are contracted to carry out the health & safety procedures as part of their daily work.
The Good to Go health & safety management system provides a wide range of easily adapted systems that allow you to apply them across the whole of your business, industry or workshop, providing a consistent safety management scheme.
Instead of having several different procedures, different ways of doing things, different types of checklist and several conflicting safety protocols that can easily add to the confusion and misunderstanding, the Good to Go system allows businesses to provide one single consistent health & safety management scheme, drastically improving the ease of use and implementation.
In addition, the Good to Go health & safety management system is highly secure and completely tamper proof, and this, combined with its high visibility and ease of use, ensures that the procedures are followed, rather than missed, overlooked or ignored.
All of this means that in addition to significantly improving the level of health & safety across the industry, when it comes to creating a safety audit, the health & safety management team can achieve this in a fraction of the time, knowing that the data will be an accurate representation of the state of health & safety in the businesses.
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