The Cost of Slips, Trips and Falls
Lots of companies don’t think twice about certain kinds of workplace accidents — but it’s this lack of thinking that comes back to impact the business later. Workplace safety should always be paramount, not just because of ethical reasons, but because it really factors into the bottom line for a business. Slip, trip and fall incidents and other worker injuries cost companies quite a bit. Such incidents also happen more than many of us may realize. A fact sheet from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) shows that slips, trips and falls are the single biggest category of industrial and worker accidents and