You will still have the costs of an injured worker's salary, plus compensation costs. Accidents and illnesses can lower morale for the rest of the workers and hurt their productivity. Your workers' compensation premiums may go up. You will have to spend time completing paperwork about the accident. In any business, small or large, the general goal is to prevent injuries and illnesses.
Prevention requires a plan and one way to start is to develop a safety and health program.
As the owner, you may decide to take the responsibility yourself or you may elect to appoint the manager or an experienced employee of the business as the person to develop and set up the program. Also remember that even when you appoint a safety manager and delegate authority to manage the program, the ultimate responsibility for safety and health in your workplace still rests with you. Employee Involvement Involve all of your employees as part of the program. Allowing employees to suggest solutions gives you ideas on how to fix hazards and gives them pride in and commitment to whatever changes you make. Look for obvious safety hazards such as conditions that may cause your employees to slip, trip, fall, or in some other way hurt themselves.