Is your business engaged in the fishing, timber, metalworking, agriculture, mining or transportation industries? These are among the most dangerous occupations for workers and occupational health and safety should be high on your agenda. Any company understands that its safety record is important, and that if an accident occurs that could have been avoided, you could jeopardise your license to operate and harm your reputation. Health and safety is not just about what goes on during operating hours: health and safety is moving “outside the fence” to include the total wellness and well-being of people and the communities of which they are a part.
Our products, be it a porridge or Mageu, can provide an affordable contribution to improving occupational health and safety. An improvement in a company’s safety record is top of mind for any manager, and improving health and concentration levels through food supplementation can contribute significantly to this. Equally, a healthy and well cared for workforce is a more productive workforce.
If an accident occurs that could have been avoided, you could jeopardise your license to operate and harm your reputation.
If workers are operating potentially dangerous equipment, the risk of harm to themselves or others increases substantially when they become tired. In industries working a continuous shift operation, the early hours of the morning can be the most dangerous for workers as drowsiness can cause a loss in concentration. How are your occupational health and safety practitioners addressing this?
In the USA it has been shown that firms that invest in employee health and safety benefits have reduced health-care costs, work compensation and insurance costs.
Health and Safety is moving “outside the fence”
Many industry codes of good practice, such as the International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM), list health and safety as one of their primary concerns. The ICMM requires its members to commit to 10 principles, one of which is to “Pursue continual improvement in health and safety performance with the ultimate goal of zero harm”.
Safety
Many businesses provide food for their workers, but this is often high in carbohydrates and produces an energy spike, which is then followed by drowsiness. A highly nutritious food supplement can provide a slower release of energy, together with all the vitamins and minerals needed for a full day or night’s work, thereby reducing the risk of accidents, and significantly impacting the firm’s safety record.
Health
If you consider the general health and wellbeing of workers, proper nutrition can provide benefits such as boosting the body’s immune system, making them more resistant to disease and reducing recovery times.
Productivity
A worker who has a higher level of energy, a better sense of well-being, a reduced susceptibility to disease, and higher concentration levels, will be more productive than a co-worker.
Public health issues
Your company’s CSR team should consider the interests of employees and their health and safety by addressing issues such as work-related stress, rigid working hours, work-life balance, poor human relations and general employee well-being – all of which affect the population’s health. A highly stressed and unhealthy workforce cannot help maximize shareholder value and dividends.
