Proving the Value of Health and Safety

We know how frustrating it can be to gain buy-in for your H&S plans. You know that H&S initiatives directly impact business performance, brand reputation and employee retention. Yet you’re constantly facing barriers and push-back – from limited resource to a general lack of appetite for going beyond the bare minimum. So why is it so hard for health and safety professionals to gain buy-in from business leaders? Likely because you’re requesting that budget to be spent on ‘what ifs’, and protection again incidents that may never happen. Health and safety spending is often wrongly viewed to be taking money away from something that could ‘directly’ create value – like more efficient production processes or improving supply chain, for example.