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Painting Biz Owners: Smart Ways to Prevent Workplace Accidents & Protect Your Team #WorkplaceSafety

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Smart Ways to Prevent Workplace Accidents & Protect Your Team #WorkplaceSafety
Uploaded: 2025-01-17T14:30:25+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this segment, the presenter emphasizes that the only way painting business owners can control their workers' compensation premiums is by preventing…

17 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter emphasizes that the only way painting business owners can control their workers' compensation premiums is by preventing workplace accidents. A genuine safety program must go beyond a static, binder‑style document to include active employee training, clear safe‑work practices, and consistent enforcement to stop risky behavior. While painting is generally lower‑risk compared to other trades, the speaker warns that significant injuries can still occur, making a functional safety system essential for protecting workers and reducing insurance costs.

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That's the one thing that's in your control as far as controlling your workers' comp premium is controlling your accidents, making sure you don't have injuries on the job. So making sure you have a really solid safety program, not just a written program. I've met with lots of contractors in the past that show me their safety program like in a binder on a shelf. That's not a safety program. You have the minimum requirements that OSHA says you have to have, but as far as an actual functioning safety program, you want your Employees to be trained, you want them to know safe work practices. Just as important, you wanna make sure that they're actually doing that, that you don't have guys that are taking risks they shouldn't be taking. Painting, as far as trades go, painting is not one of the higher risk trades, but there are still opportunities for significant injuries.