To emphasise how seriously QHS takes safety, it is one of QHS’s 3 core values and ever since 2008 has employed Angela Rotaru as a dedicated Health & Safety Co-Ordinator (pictured above). Working across our business Angela has supported us throughout the pandemic to ensure all QHS staff have developed a real resilience in dealing with the knock-on operational effects of COVID-19 ensuring the safest possible working environment for its employees and customers, working closely in collaboration with its clients to achieve the most efficient and safest way to deliver on site services.

The theme for World Day for Health and Safety at Work in 2022 is to explore the topic of participation and social dialogue in creating a positive safety and health culture. Throughout the last few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, those having a strong Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) system have shown to be better at protecting working environments and safeguarding the safety and health of workers.

In the workplace, a strong OSH culture is one in which the right to a safe and healthy working environment is genuinely acknowledged, valued and promoted by both management and workers. This is because a positive OSH culture is built on inclusion, via the meaningful involvement of all parties in the need to continually improve safety and health at work. In a workplace that has a strong OSH culture, workers are much more likely to feel comfortable and able to raise concerns about possible OSH risks or hazards in their workplace and engaged to find appropriate, effective and sustainable solutions. For this to work consistently, it requires open communication and dialogue that is built on trust and mutual respect in the workplace.

Join QHS in using the reminder of the annual World Day for Health & Safety at Work to help make the workplace an even safer place to be by being vigilant and taking the appropriate actions.