Ensuring Workplace Safety Workplace safety and good work environment is the right of every worker. In fact, it is a law. To this end, workplace safety is a very big concern for companies and spends huge resources for its research, training, implementation, and maintenance. One of the top concerns for promoting workplace safety is the loss of productivity. - Establishing programs that recognize the individual contributions of employees to the safety efforts of the organization. Involvement Employees are in direct contact with tools, equipment, machineries, and appliances that make them vulnerable at work. It is, thus, very important to directly involve them with the efforts to minimize workplace hazards, risk of injuries and of accidents. ) Caught In/Compressed By These are injuries that result from workers being compressed by or caught in any operation workplace machineries. Injuries of this kind can also result from exposure to extreme heat. 8.) Repetitive Motion Prolonged repetitive motion accounts for hundreds of insurance claims filed every year. Appropriate programs should be made to ensure that sick employees are kept from a safe distance from perfectly healthy employees. Such programs include paid sick leave and others. Health hazards can be avoided by very simple regulations. Encourage employees to frequently wash their hands, for example, to avoid the spread of communicable diseases. While most fire extinguishers remain unused for many years, these can potentially save properties and lives. Fire extinguishers should be installed on every floor of the establishment, including the kitchen, storage, area, basement, parking lot, lobby, and others in areas where they are visible and accessible. Unreasonable demands on the worker like multitasking and very high expectations providing little time to perform tasks proved time and again to be counterproductive. Remember the domino effect. One potential hazard left unnoticed or unchecked could lead to string of events that not only are potentially expensive but also are disastrous.