Health and safety for tradies in working place should be a priority for any construction company and a mandatory requirement in some states. And the key to a successful project as a contractor in any construction work is to keep your tradies safe and healthy. The whole process is simple, but it prevents a lot of serious problems in your project and ensures you complete all of your projects within the required time. Nothing feels useful like a complete project with zero injuries, and to ensure you get a 100% project completion with zero injuries, here are some of the Health and safety for tradies.
Safety Tips for Tradies
PPEs
Personal Protective Equipment is key to zero injuries and full project completion. Ensure your workers have the right protective gear before reporting to work or assigning them to any task. You can buy or even rent some of the PPEs for your team to avoid any injuries at work. A set of overall, boots, hand gloves, and construction helmets make complete safety wear for all construction workers. For instance, a loss of stones falling will cause small damage to a worker wearing a good construction helmet. You should not take anything for granted because, in a construction site, errors and injuries are everywhere.
Safety Training
Your PPEs will mean nothing if you don’t educate your site workers on the importance of safety. The whole program should cover the application of the right tools and personal safety. They say prevention is a better option than curing when it comes to injury and workers’ safety. And it is easy for people to follow and observe what they know than people who have no idea the importance and use of the same PPEs. It would help if you focused more on training and emphasizing safety than applying the safety guidelines. So, before hiring any Tradie, make sure he/she has a practice in safety or make an effort to employ a safety operator to teach and ensure each one of your team has what it takes to be safe.
Insurance
After all, it is hard to ensure that you eliminate all the defects, and each worker is secure; some small injuries will always occur. You need someone to cover up if any arises, take a step further and find an insurance cover for your team. Medical bills are expensive to cover, and they can even slow down your projects. The best way to ensure they don’t come in between your project is to ensure your Tradies.
