Benefits of OHS Training

First and foremost; OHS training ensures that you meet legal requirements. Sure; there may be no legal requirement in place to actually have safety training for your business, but it is still important. This is because this type of training will teach you the legal requirements when it comes to health and safety in the workplace.

Basically; OHS training will ensure that your employees know exactly what is expected of them in the work environment. This means that you will not be breaking the law (unless your employees do something incredibly stupid). This means that you will not have to deal with the hefty fines that health and safety executives like to toss out on a regular basis.

Most occupational health and safety training should also encompass first aid training. As you may know; first aid could quite often mean the difference between life and death in some situations. If first aid is not administered quickly enough then people could die. Sure; the majority of businesses out there will have at least one person on the team who is fully trained in first aid.

I am sure you do not want to run around trying to find them when every second counts though, right? This is why you need first aid training. Absolutely every employee that you have should be trained in the basics of first aid.

Most occupational health and safety training will also cover fire safety training as well. The intention of fire safety training is to ingrain into the mind of people exactly what needs to be done in the event of an emergency. You want them to work on autopilot. You will be surprised at how many people get confused in the event of a fire (mostly down to the panic), so you want everything to come as naturally as possible to them.