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Enabling and maintaining good health ............................................

Unless your employees maintain optimum health, they cannot perform at the
high levels required to create superior products. To ensure their good health,
your business should consider initiating a healthcare management program
that includes

A health center with qualified staff able to access vital information on

demand; such data ought to entail personal information, case histories,

injury and illness records, medical measures, restrictions, vaccinations,

and the like; staff should be able to quickly and easily evaluate medical

parameters, review general health statistics, display personal exposure

record information, and provide statistics needed by workers’ compen-

sation associations

Health surveillance protocols appropriate to each employee’s personal

exposure situation. As a means of reducing lost work hours, maximizing

health center facility operations, and cutting company costs; all unnec-

essary protocols should be eliminated

Physicians armed with statistics that enable them to recognize potential

sources of danger, avoid occupational diseases, conduct occupational

epidemiology studies, and provide evidence to any concerned persons

or agencies that specified treatments and services have been rendered

First-aid training for specified individuals, along with an accurate, regu-

larly updated list of who has received such training and where in the

company they are located

Avoiding accidents .............................................................................

People make mistakes, disaster strikes, fires start, chemicals spill, and fork-
lifts go out of control. What we call accidents are almost always preventable
(well, except for the natural disasters), and sometimes despite our efforts at
prevention, they do occur. Certainly some industries have more inherent
risks to the safety of their employees than others, particularly those involv-
ing mining, chemicals, construction, lumber, maritime activities, and manu-
facturing. Regardless of how comparatively safe or dangerous your industry
is, safety risks are a concern for every company doing business today.

Your organization can take its first steps toward building a strong health and
safety agenda simply by engaging in some good old-fashioned common sense,
and then by applying universally recognized prevention principles. Foremost
among these principles is an employee-training program that addresses the
specific needs and requirements of your industry and a comprehensive
system to manage all of this.

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