Promotion, education and awareness are vital and essential element of occupational safety and health programs in the ongoing effort to:

Reduce and eliminate worker injuries or illness
Reduce accident costs
Increase productivity
Boost employee morale
Generate good will between employees
    and management
Lower operating costs

HOW SAFETY CAN SAFE COSTS?

The costs of accident prevention are relatively easy to assess in comparison with the costs of accidents. Firstly, there are the design costs, such as those costs required to install machine guards to protect workers. Secondly, there are the operational costs, such as the costs of running a safety department (e.g. training, protective clothing, etc.). Lastly, there are the planning and consequence-limiting costs which refer to “safeguarding the future”, as for example in the costs of environmental sampling or the costs of safety audits.