Ensure that your company is using high security locks or decent electronic access control units on all doors, be it outdoor or indoor doors, basement doors, or cabinet doors. Also, ensure that all doors are solid and that hinges and doorframes are sturdy enough to withstand the force of hammers, bolt cutters, drills, and blow-torches. There shouldn t be any blind spots. Where they cannot be avoided, employees should be made aware of their presence to prevent any untoward accidents, especially collision. Wires and cords should be hidden. Whenever possible, secured away. There should be no loose electrical wirings, everything must be covered with appropriate insulators. Involve your employees. Ensuring that your office is a safe place to work in is not a one-man effort. Everyone in the organization should be compelled to participate and do their own part in keeping the workplace free of potential hazards. Or, at least, encourage everyone to commit themselves to reduce the risks. Validation While the job description of the new worker entails some risks like operating machineries, the new worker especially the young are not assigned to tasks that are beyond proven observable capacity and skill. If the plan for the new worker is to eventually assign him the task, the supervisor or someone trusted to do the job well, works closely with the worker until competencies, skill and adherence to safe practices are established. Many accidents happen because someone did not take the time to ensure that the office equipment is properly installed. - Prevent any electrical circuit overload. - When using extension cords, ensure that the cords can bear the electrical load demanded by the products that use them. These are not supposed to be used permanently and are not meant to substitute permanent wires and sockets. The link is weakened though when the supervisor is not an effective communicator. Complicating this is the trend today to hire temporary workers even when there is a language barrier. As an example, foreign workers are three times more likely to be involved in a fatal workplace accident that those who are native to the area.