WHY HEADS UP SAFETY?
Whether your business consists of a few employees or hundreds, you may want to consider outsourcing your safety management to Heads Up Safety. A professional safety management group is useful when your company is still too small to hire a full-time safety professional. For bigger businesses, outsourced safety management services provide specialists that are well-versed in all aspects of safety management and can assist during periods of work overload for the full-time employees. We are also available for safety training services whether it be training your employees to keep for compliance records, answer safety standard questions, or training when any occupational injury or illness occurs. ​​
These are just a few of the benefits of hiring a safety consultant. Safety consultants allow the companies they work for to adopt a more agile approach to health and safety that keeps workers safe, protects the company, and ensures compliance.
Subject Matter Experts (SME) Liability issues alongside growing workers’ compensation costs mean that keeping your workers and the public safe is an increasingly critical responsibility for any company. Since our business is safety, safety consultants have the knowledge and expertise to provide necessary recommendations and they will know all the compliance standards specific to your business. It is their job to stay on top of the latest trends and innovations for PPE and technologies, for example, something that your existing staff may not have the interest in or time for in addition to their regular job duties. Safety consultants also stay abreast of new regulations that may directly affect your company and can help you prepare in advance to meet these regulations. More importantly, safety consultants understand regulations and can break them down for your supervisory staff while ensuring your company remains compliant. When you hire a safety consultant, you get an individual or a team of people who work solely in safety. They have the training and knowledge to accurately assess your current safety situation and make suggestions for improvement. They will have an educational background that is safety-related but will also stay on top of recent trends through ongoing education.
Leverage Experience Safety consultants also have access to the kind of valuable knowledge that can only come with experience. This expertise is often specific to your industry but will also be informed by the consultant’s varied experiences in other sectors. This is the kind of extensive capability that they can apply to solve your safety issues. In other words, they’ll come equipped with an awareness of both what can happen and what should happen. They will have seen what works and, more importantly, what doesn’t. This experience goes far beyond staying up to date on the latest trends in the safety world — it makes them an invaluable resource for your organization.
Save Time & Money As they are laser-focused on safety and know the latest innovations, safety consultants can reduce your overhead costs in several different ways. After all, it is always more costly to fix something after it becomes a problem than to take a preventative approach. They will save you money, for example, by helping you catch and fix critical safety gaps more quickly and long before they become severe problems. A safety consultant or company can also allow you to save money by buying the services you need when you need them. You can purchase services either on an ad hoc or contract basis. Since they are not employees, you will also save employee-related costs from wages to benefits to employee taxes.
Gain an Impartial Third Party Safety consultants do not come to the workplace with an agenda. Their sole focus is on safety and how they can best help to keep your workers safe. Internal safety teams are still employees and will be influenced by events and expectations from within the company. However, a safety consultant is not affected by office politics or by these internal events. Their motivation is strictly ensuring compliance, avoiding fines, and protecting workers. With safety consultants, companies can be more agile and work toward the future and preventing possible safety issues rather than continually responding to existing problems and putting out fires. This kind of forward-thinking and the advanced safety planning skills that come from experience can also save your company money. Since they’re impartial, safety consultants can also serve as a buffer between management and workers in soliciting feedback or implementing change. Both can be made a little more palatable when filtered through a third party like a safety consultant.