cember than any other time of the year, according to WorkSafe Victoria. Their recent press release indicated that over the past 10 years, 25% workplace fatalities took place in the final 8 weeks of the year.
IWorkers are more likely to die in November and Det is critical that we all return home safe each evening. So with WorkSafe’s sobering statistics, it reminds us all that workers and employers must put safety first in order to prevent workplace fatalities.
Safety is everyone’s responsibility.
The lead-up to Christmas is notoriously busy with employers and employees rushing to finish strong. Warehouse workers may be rushing to finish final Christmas orders or back-to-school orders for January. Many farmers are subject to their harvesting cycles and on worksites contractors don’t want to shut down at an illogical point.
No holiday or deadline is worth a life.
The safest workplace is the one where employers and workers stop and take the time to create a safe plan to finish the work.
The safest workplaces are those where employers and workers communicate openly about risks and mitigate them together.
The safest workplaces are those that – potentially – may realise that the workload creates physical or mental risks and the employer recognises that the cost of a temp for a few days is minimal compared to the multitude of family, morale and economic costs of a fatality.
Christmas is a time we take to be together. Let’s not add to those that we need to remember this Christmas season.
If you need help mitigating your risks, please call us. We’re happy to take you through some ideas and options.
