Results and Benefits of Working with EDP

You may question the possible benefits of using EDP to help with your health, safety and environment.

These can vary according to your particular circumstances, but here are some that our existing customers have reported to us.

• Inspire your workforce to improve safety and productivity
  A good record for health and safety demonstrates as nothing else can how important your employees are to your business. Staff who feel valued have greater loyalty toward your company and its prosperity. With EDP’s Management Systems, your staff are actively involved in those matters that affect their welfare.
  
  Your staff know what risks they might face and what you have done to keep them safe. Fewer accidents mean less absenteeism and increased productivity.



• Win more lucrative contracts
  Companies and corporations are becoming increasingly concerned about health and safety responsibilities that are not under their direct control. If you are trying to sell products or services into those organisations, they want to see your health and safety credentials before they consider awarding you the contract.
  
  You need EDP’s Management Systems to ensure you have all angles of health and safety fully covered. Policies, risk assessments, training records and a myriad other records are fully documented and easily accessible.
  
  You can submit proposals and tenders; confident in the knowledge that you can satisfy the most stringent inspection.



• Have ready access to authoritative, pragmatic advice
  Even in the best run organisations, things can still go wrong. That’s when you appreciate being able to call on skilled and experienced professionals.
  
  It might be an accident or serious incident and you need someone on site as quickly as possible. Working with EDP, we will find and despatch the best person to manage your situation.
  
  You may have seen a news story on TV that could have significant implications for your business. You need level-headed advice, without journalistic spin, about exactly what it means, how it affects you and the most cost-effective way to handle it.
  
  With EDP you are always up to date with just those issues that concern your business.



• Reduce turnover and keep your best staff
  Whilst important, workers are looking for more than financial rewards from their work. They want job satisfaction and to work in an environment they know is safe for them and their visitors.
  
  EDP offers a systematic approach to risks to ensure nothing that is foreseeable is overlooked. Workers need straightforward instruction on how to avoid hurting themselves or their colleagues Showing you care about your staff is one of the best ways to ensure they will stay with you long term.



• Strengthen your public image and boost marketing
  The speed and coverage of modern communications mean that anything newsworthy, particularly bad news, is fair game for reporters. You can be sure that accidents will be reported and the more serious the incident, the wider the coverage it will receive.
  
  Don’t allow your reputation to be undermined by a single unfortunate event.
  
  With EDP’s comprehensive Management Systems you are able to demonstrate how your arrangements prove that safety is given first priority.
  
  Use your safety track record to turn a hostile press into a supporter of your company



• Avoid lost time and disruption to your production line
  Even minor accidents and incidents can cause major disruption as they involve everyone, even if only as spectators. People who are attending to an accident are not concentrating on their work which can itself be dangerous.
  
  EDP helps you to reduce risks to their lowest practicable level so as to cut accidents down to size. A formal system will ensure everyone receives the right level of training, information and supervision needed to keep them safe
  
  Train your people to be ‘safety prone’ instead of ‘accident prone’.



• Reap the financial benefits of a good safety record
  Good health and safety costs less than poor health and safety. If your insurance company pays your compensation claims, they will penalise you with higher premiums – some companies have even gone out of business because they couldn’t afford insurance.
  
  Use EDP’s systems to assemble the records and evidence you need to prove your excellent safety record to any insurance company.
  
  Negotiate with your existing company for reduced insurance costs. They prefer both premiums and claims that are low rather than high.



• Impress shareholders with reducing costs and increasing profits
  Costs of accidents are often hidden and don’t appear in the company accounts – costs like lost management time, recruitment and training costs, lost skills and experience. They may not be listed in the accounts but such costs certainly have an effect on your organisation’s bottom line.
  
  Include a health and safety section in your annual company report, replete with facts, figures and cost savings.
  
  It does no harm to let your staff know about it as well, so include it in your staff newsletter. After all, what is expensive for the company to put right is usually a headache for staff as well.



• Guard against lengthy legal compensation claims
  We all hear stories in the news about compensation cases that take years to reach a settlement. Everyone loses out (except perhaps the legal profession). The better option is to avoid claims arising in the first place and having ample evidence available to mount a robust defence against spurious claims.
  
  Good documentation is an essential component of EDP’s approach. That doesn’t mean being overburdened by bureaucracy – it means recording the facts in an organised way – all the essential facts but only those that are essential.



• Protect yourself against possible criminal investigations
  Investigations can be very disruptive in terms of lost time and sometimes even lost records when they are taken away for review by enforcing authorities. Poor procedures and inadequate documentation can extend an investigation inordinately.
  
  A transparent Safety Management System will provide all available information in the shortest possible time so that whatever the outcome, it is not protracted unnecessarily.
  
  Of course, a comprehensive system that is run efficiently is the best insurance against an investigation being mounted in the first place, which is by far the preferred scenario.