Provide your employees with tasks or jobs that make them accountable for their own safety and that of others. This can be as simple as keeping their workstations free of clutter. Adopt zero tolerance policy towards workplace violence. Your employees are not only at risk because of structural problems and deficits in the workplace. Electrical Safety - Ensure that all machineries are installed according to product installation instructions. 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. Good locks and doors are your first line of defense in terms of physical security. 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. When that happens, judgments are impaired, accidents happen and long-term productivity suffers. 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. - Hiding away electrical wires, cables and sockets - By proving proper electrical hazards - By providing full training to employees who are working with electrical equipment Traffic accidents Accidents involving motorized vehicles do not only happen in warehouse depots where heavy vehicles are used. These could also happen in workplace premises such as parking lots and even in walkways outside the establishment. Workplace Safety Safety In The Office True, more accidents happen in construction, manufacturing, industrial, and utilities sites but there are office accidents and unsafe practices that are just as dangerous and just as injurious. Tripping on power cords, bumping on open cabinets, bad ergonomics and furniture layout, carpets that are not flat are just some of the concerns why workplace safety must be observed in the office, because to expect that unchecked and unsafe methods and procedures in the manufacturing floor will not eventually creep into the office is a fallacy, recognized or not.