The Hanover has the resources you need to take a holistic approach to reducing the risk and rate of workplace injury.
The Hanover Work Safe Program
We know having a safe workplace environment is top of mind for every business. Having a cohesive approach to risk management and claims can help prevent worker injury and keep businesses up and running.
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Your Hanover Work Safe resources
Organizational safety management
Workplace safety is a cultural commitment. To help establish and promote this culture, The Hanover offers resources that can help you develop:
- Safety goals and objectives
- Safety policies and procedures
- Organizational safety culture
Employee selection and training
Having consistent protocol for employee selection and training can help ensure employees are properly trained and can help prevent on the job injuries. Focus areas should include:
- New hire training
- Job specific, task specific and refresher training
- Coaching to improve performance
Risk assessment and control
Continuously identifying risks within your organization and putting procedures in place can significantly reduce on-the-job injuries. Resources from Hanover Risk Solutions can help you:
- Spot safety and health hazards from routine, non-routine, and emergency situations.
- Assess existing hazards, exposures, and control measures
- Identify new and emerging risks
Resources
Small business safety and health handbook [PDF]
Quick safety inspections reference guide
Machine guarding solutions and training
Elements of an effective fall management program
Ergonomics interactive toolkit
Injury management
While smart risk prevention can help avoid workplace injury, you still need to be prepared if an incident happens. The Hanover has several resources to help you minimize the impact through:
- Emergency response, care, and treatment
- Expedited claim reporting and proactive case management
- Return-to-work programs
- Claims advocacy model that leverages predictive analytics to proactively manage and address biological, psychological, social and economic factors to achieve the best claims outcome
Learning and continuous improvement
While no one wants a worker to get hurt, workplace injuries provide an opportunity to improve operations and avoid similar incidents in the future. The Hanover is also here after an injury, to help you:
- Investigate incidents
- Leverage mishaps and close calls as learning opportunities
- Review and incorporate lessons learned
- Implement changes in controls, policies and procedures to reflect learnings
- Observe and identify leading indicators of potential injury