Wherever you work, and whatever your risk of accidents at work, your safety is taken care of. There are standards from SUVA, BFU, safety recommendations from professional associations and often also in-house training so that you can do your job safely. What is taught here can also be applied in private life. It is one thing for everyone to protect themselves. The fact that a company, the public sector or even a patron of an SME protects his employees is another. Human capital, the most valuable asset of an employer, must be taken care of, even if the misnomer of regarding people as capital is rather contradictory.
Where there are customers as well as employees, a boss is saddled with double responsibility. Not only does he safeguard his employees with the appropriate emergency aid materials and defibrillators for their own safety. He also invests in their education and training, thereby protecting the customers as well. Therefore, investing in first aid measures at the workplace makes twofold sense: it multiplies emergency aid from the workforce to the clientele - and narrows the network of available defibrillators. A practical side effect in terms of PR: the company radiates a confident sense of safety.
Proud to know that besides my work, I can provide emergency aid and save lives or know how to use a defibrillator. By the way, I can even do that in a one-woman office where no customers come by. That's why the in-house course is next on the agenda. Registered and noted in the agenda.
A self-experience report will follow on this blog. But for sure!
