Your employees are the most essential resource for your organization.
An organization’s output or productivity depends mostly on the people you or your organization hires. Physical and mental labour adds value to the organization.
Work related injury and illness is an organization’s greatest personnel loss. Personnel risk also includes loss of employees through retirement, resignation, lowered productivity due to workplace violence and even to the extreme, kidnapping and ransom threats.
Good health and freedom from injury and illness are vital to maximize your employee’s potential and productivity output. Often Risk managers work within the confines of human resources, and they have to address these factors. You’re on the right road when you consider the following:
- current health and education of your workforce
- proper personnel selection
- well-defined process and procedures for hiring, placing, training, developing and promoting employees
- rehabilitation of your injured and ill employees
- retention plans and practices of the most productive employees
Traditionally risk management has been involved in maintaining health and safety of the work environment and assisting in the development of policies and practices to rehabilitate injured or ill employees. Maintaining and preserving your existing and future workforce productivity requires not only the risk manager’s involvement but that of your entire workforce.