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Engaging Employees to Improve Safety: Why it Works!!

14 Jan 2022
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When making a decision on the right protective product to purchase a lot of our customers focus on getting the best protection with the most advantageous price and market availability. 

These are important factors to look at, however they are not what we consider to be the most important. 

In our opinion the most important factor in choosing the right protective equipment and clothing is something we call “workforce take-up”. 

Workforce take-up is the willingness or preparedness of an organisations operatives to use the clothing or equipment that we provide. 

It is a really important factor in deciding how effective the protective items an organisation purchases are and also in how cost-effective the purchases are. 

If your workforce doesn’t want to use a product, then the likelihood is that they will either not use the product or use it incorrectly.  This can lead to increased risks of accidents, poor product lifetime and the hassle of dealing with a complaining workforce.  Most importantly it causes wasted time at a number of different levels throughout an organisation. 

Workforce take-up is determined by a number of factors: 

  • User familiarity with the product/brand as well as other products that they may already be using or have used in the past 
  • User comfort when wearing or using the protective item 
  • The brand reputation of the product 
  • The protection that the user feels that they are getting when using the product  

The best way to get good workforce take-up is to run extensive workplace trials before finalising your product selection. 

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