You save money because you will pay lower insurance premiums in the long run. If you have a company that has a workforce which is well-trained on a wide range of health and safety issues, you don’t have to pay regular injury and accident claims when you have a knowledgeable employees on health and safety issues, which should avoid expensive rises in insurance premiums going forward.

For those in charge of the company, learning about workplace health and safety can help in the reduction of workplace accidents and injuries, which will in turn help in saving the company from costly legal battles with their workers and lifelong support for their families. Prioritising the health and safety of your employees keeps them happy and provides good working conditions which will keep them from leaving the job due to any workplace-related illness.

If your employees are healthy and fit, they will work with high efficiency which will affect the company’s productivity positively. The productivity of a company is affected more by accidents and illness in the workplace than workers’ strikes. Employers of labour understand that lost wages, disability compensation and medical payments eats deep into the financial resources of the company. Companies that engage their employees on regular health and safety training initiatives have fewer workplace related injuries and illness. Less illness means less medical and disability compensation, and the absence of workers is lessened which also increase company’s productivity. An enhanced and safer working environment increases satisfaction in the workers, and a happy workforce results in enhanced productivity. So it will be right to say that health and safety training increases the overall productivity of a company.

It is to be noted that a safe workplace will make employees focus better on their daily task because they don’t have to worry themselves much about their safety during working hours. This improved focus on their task will subsequently yield to a better output and quality of work which will ultimately mean an increase in productivity and increase in the company’s profit.

If your employees have a good knowledge of health and safety issues, the chances of accidents will be reduced and this will increase the reputation of the company. You may not know the extent of the damage a single accident can bring to your company. Just a single workplace accident can spell doom for your business, especially if it happened as a result of negligence coming from your side, with the failure to provide suitable health and safety training for your workers one of the first steps in the negligence case.

There is also the legal part of it all. As the owner of a company or employer of labour, you have a duty to care to make sure that the employees working for you are safe and healthy no matter where they are working, be it in the office or on the roadside or even in the factory. A company with an excellent reputation is a company with an excellent health and safety training record, and as a result attracts better employees. Employees with great working skills, experience and knowledge help in building and maintaining the reputation of a company. A positive health and culture within the business can therefore act as a positive, self-fulfilling cycle which continues to provide benefits for both employees and the success of the company alike. Employees have the right to be protected by their employers from accidents and illness associated with the workplace. When an employer is found to be, or has been, negligent in this duty of care, they are likely to face legal action which may culminate in imprisonment or heavy fines.

Additionally, a company with a good record of health and safety training has a greater chance of keeping quality workers in their workforce, which helps in reducing turnover because the company does not have to train new employees, and also reduces productivity loss which is associated with the time needed for the training of new employees.