Why is managing safely is important?

Answer 1

Safety is imperative, for a variety of reasons.

1. It is just the right thing to do for your employees and customers.

2. Accidents/injuries cost money. Lost productivity of employees, hits to your Worker's Compensation insurance, Unemployment insurance (if the injured worker must be out of work for an extended period and the accident is found to be the fault of management), increased insurance premiums, lawsuits, damage to equipment/loss of materials, not to mention the overall damage to the company's reputation when it gets out that it is an unsafe place to work or shop.

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Answer 2

Safety helps to mitigate risk in any given situation. If you do not take precautions against injury or damage to yourself or equipment, you may face several problems:

• Injury (which leads to medical bills or inability to take part further until healed)
• Equipment/gear damage (which can lead to costly repair or replacement of equipment involved in the activity in question)

As such, it's important to consider the risk involved in any given situation, and take appropriate safety measures based on that.

For example: If you're going to ride a bike to your friend's house and you're familiar with the trail, you may opt to ride without a helmet, though it's not recommended. What if you crash? If there's pavement, you could do serious damage to yourself.

This is why your parent or guardian will often insist that you wear a helmet in this situation; because they don't want to see you hurt, and potentially have to take you to the hospital.