Safety Awareness

FMIC - Jenny Clawson

Forestry Mutual strives to keep our Insureds educated on new and improved ways of maintaining a safe workplace. Safety training and protective equipment are just some examples of the effort put into reducing workplace accidents. Unfortunately, these efforts do not significantly reduce those accidents in the long run, at least not by themselves. When coupled with Safety Awareness, most workplace accidents can be avoided. Safety Awareness essentially helps employees become focused and more aware of safety in the workplace. No employee ever plans on having an accident, but when safety is not associated with their work, then human error, employee carelessness, and/or negligence step in and create the potential for an accident. Keeping safety at the forefront of all tasks is the key to the success of Safety Awareness. 

Safety awareness can almost eliminate all of an Insured’s accident-related costs as well. Accidents affect a workplace on a multitude of levels, from worrying about the well-being of the employee, worrying about the cost of the accident, and worrying about how to prevent further accidents in the future. Since safety awareness has the potential to reduce the number of accidents an employer experiences, that means that it also reduces the Direct and Indirect costs that an accident incurs. The diagram below shows the difference between the Direct and Indirect costs that an employer experiences when an accident happens. We want to help our Insureds avoid this iceberg by promoting Safety Awareness in their workplace.