Companies need to give greater priority to employee health and safety if the overall well-being of American workers is to be improved. That’s the argument of three McKinsey partners in a 2021 article about innovating the way American businesses conceptualize employee health, safety, and wellness.
American workers are substantially less healthy than their counterparts in other countries. In their article, the McKinsey partners argue that innovation is needed to keep American workers healthy and safe.
The authors make the business case for investing in workplace health and safety. “The goal is to connect better health for employees” to strategic objectives like “enhancing overall productivity and business results,” they write.
They support this argument with data showing that healthier employees are more productive, including a finding that “effectively treating depression and anxiety could lead to a 4:1 return in improved employee health and productivity at work.”
It’s difficult to know how to prepare for the wide range of possible health and safety challenges, but a blueprint for providing your company with resources already exists. Kokomo24/7® has worked for years to develop a highly capable software platform that can provide technical solutions to the health and safety challenges that companies face.
Here are just a few of the ways our software toolkit can help you manage your day-to-day tasks in an effort to better streamline your workflow, let you better oversee your workplace, and help ensure employees’ health and safety.
Incident Management
1. Collect and track employee incidents such as misconduct, injuries, harmful behavior, and more.
2. Better manage building issues that arise such as maintenance requests, technology issues, safety issues, and more.
Employee Tip-Line
3. Create and maintain an anonymous tip line where workers can report concerning or harmful behavior.
4. Offer workers an avenue to report workplace misconduct and other issues without retribution.
5. Collect and track reports of compliance issues, misconduct, and more.
6. Automatically inform key stakeholders like HR and managers about concerning behavior.
7. Help prevent emergencies before they happen.
Communications Management
8. Create automated notifications so that, during an emergency, you can notify your community in seconds.
9. Provide updates for armed assailant incidents, inclement weather, hazardous materials, and more.
10. Create employee screening surveys to conduct employee well-being checks.
Visitor Management
11. Visitor check-in and check-out of your workplace.
12. Use optional digital badging to better control your workspaces and safeguard against unwanted access.
13. Restrict visitor access to sensitive or private locations at your facilities.
14. Can be used across multiple facilities.
A Robust Health, Safety, and Compliance Software Platform Can Help
Kokomo24/7® understands that every workplace has its own set of unique needs. We can provide your business with a robust yet easy-to-use software platform that simplifies the complicated work of construction. Get the health and safety platform you need to navigate complex and changing circumstances, and equip your workers with the technology tools they need to succeed.
Ever since Kokomo24/7® was founded in 2018, we have been a leader in compliance and risk management solutions for all things health and safety. Kokomo proudly serves workplaces, schools, and communities. Our mission is to deliver highly effective, easy-to-use, and trusted compliance and risk management solutions that bridge the gap between public safety and technology.
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