One of the most important factors that defines your workplace and workforce is the health quotient of the employees and also how favorable are the working conditions at your workplace. This makes a professional Health and Risk Assessment for your company a must have. Not only does it give confidence to your investors and employees but also saves you the hassle of undue risks and makes you stand ahead of your competitors. To help you with this, here’s a detailed guide to why you should consider a Health and risk Assessment for your company.
What is occupational hygiene or Hygiene at workplace?
In simple terms occupational hygiene is recognising, identifying, and controlling the factors that may cause health hazards and risks at a workplace. It is a means to assess the susceptibility and exposure to factors that may cause illness at a workplace. Some of these factors could be chemical hazards, biological hazards and even psychosocial hazards. This helps in prevention of disease and injuries at the workplace and it is very important to maintain a good workplace environment.
What is health and risk assessment?
Health and risk assessment is the process in which the actual risks to health and hazards is determined by doing a thorough analysis and inspection guided by experts. It also includes estimating potential hazards and it is a comprehensive process that includes several steps which help in assessing the health risks and also in managing those risks. Our Health risk assessment process works in tandem with internationally acknowledged processes and these are certain steps in which we assess the health risks at your workplace:
- Basic Characterization (identify agents, hazards, people potentially exposed and existing exposure controls)
- Exposure Assessment (select occupational exposure limits, hazard bands, relevant toxicological data to determine if exposures are “acceptable”, “unacceptable” or “uncertain”)
- Exposure Controls (for “unacceptable” or “uncertain” exposures)
- Further Information Gathering (for “uncertain” exposures)
- Hazard Communication (for all exposures)
- Reassessment (as needed) / Management of Change
Who should carry out a health risk assessment?
Though it is recommended that every company should carry out a Health risk assessment but in particular it is a must the companies which have a workforce working in an industry where there could be potential health hazards due to the nature of work and processes involved. If you’re running a business and want an efficient workforce and a healthy working environment at your workplace then you must have a health risk assessment carried out by professionals.
Importance of a positive Health Risk Assessment
A positive health risk assessment is quintessential to any efficient workplace environment. Moreover it is very important to have people working within your company protected from several unwanted health hazards which may occur due to exposure to emissions or residues and chemicals which are by-products of industrial processes. Moreover it is also about the social implications of industrial waste that could cause harm to the environment and the society nearby. All this could hamper not only your company’s growth and productivity but also your brand. Therefore it is extremely important to have a positive and Professional Health Risk assessment done for your company.
If you haven’t had a Health risk assessment done at your workplace, it is about time that you should as it will not only make your workforce efficient but will also save you from undue risks and other health hazards.
