What is the ethical issue?

Effective health and safety procedures can reduce workplace injuries, which are a source of lost time, lost money for the employer and employees, as well as an administrative drain. Workplace security can protect your business against theft, while also guarding the safety of your staff against incursions of violence.

Safety refers to procedures and other matters taken to keep workers from being injured or getting sick. Security overlaps safety somewhat because it can also mean protecting workers from injury, but it is broader and refers to other threats as well, such as sexual harassment and theft.

IBE Guidance

A summary of good practice

• Organisations should set measurable Health, Safety, Security & Environmental (HSSE) performance targets in their business plans which they are committed to fulfilling. Personal and process safety is about more than following rules.
• Everyone has a responsibility to be alert to safety risks as they go about their daily tasks. Nothing is so important that time cannot be taken to ensure that it is done safely.
• It should be every organisation's intention that everyone goes home safely - every day, everywhere. All operations must be conducted in compliance with applicable health and safety laws and regulations, company standards and best practice. This means that, in some parts of the world, organisational standards may be higher than local laws.

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