Are your employees ready to face Disasters

When emergencies strike a company, you will get no time to think or figure out what to do. To survive the emergency, you must already know what to do, how to do and when to do it?

OSHA has mandated that every organization must develop, practice and execute emergency plans when the moment arrives. Emergency planning and response is the most vital aspect of safety management and works extremely well to keep the workplace and employees safe and sound.

Some of the emergencies that you must be ready to face are:

1.Fire: Fire is one of the most common types of workplace emergencies faced by many organizations every year. According to statistics, 10,000 injuries and 200 deaths of employees happen every year. And in addition, property losses from industrial fires have cost a nearly $4 billion loss a year.

2.Natural Disasters: Disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes can strike with no or little warning. Effective emergency actions may be required in these situations.

3.Explosions from fire, combustible dust, chemical reactions or other factors can injure or claim lives and destroy property.

4.Toxic chemical releases may require emergency response within the work environment and in the surrounding community.

5.Workplace violence can occur anytime. In this situation, everyone in the organization must be prepared to respond fast to control it.

6.Terrorism events like the 9/11 attacks have become another disaster to add to in the emergency plan.

To plan for these emergency and response situations, training is necessary for all employees. The OSHA HAZWOPER training courses will educate and train employees on how they can act and respond to these kinds of situations. The HAZWOPER training courses will be a life saver, so join the training program today!