Anchoring: Make safety and health a living practice

You’ve already completed the first three steps of the Dutch Labour Inspectorate’s 4-step plan: Step 1: Inventory, Step 2: Assessment, and Step 3: Measures. This means you’ve identified and controlled the risks of hazardous substances. In Step 4: Achoring, you ensure that this policy is consistently applied in practice. Without anchoring, attention fades, employees lose knowledge, and old, unsafe routines may return.

Why is it so important to ensure safe practices for hazardous substances?

Anchoring safe practices is essential to prevent health issues and workplace accidents. Products, processes, and legislation are continually evolving. Anchoring ensures your policy remains up to date by identifying changes, regularly informing employees, and providing clear work instructions. Periodic medical examinations also help detect health effects early. This way, safe behavior becomes part of daily practice, fostering a sustainable safety culture where everyone knows how to work safely and healthily with hazardous substances.

How Stoffenmanager® supports anchoring in practice

• Notifications for expiry
  Easily set up notifications for expired products or risk assessments. Expired items are clearly marked in the overview, making it easy to see where action is needed, such as requesting new Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) or reassessing processes.

• Workplace Instruction Cards (WICs)
  Create clear WICs in Stoffenmanager® to provide employees with practical, easy-to-understand instructions for working safely with hazardous substances. Use Stoffenmanager® SHARE to distribute this information so everyone knows how to act correctly. Want to learn more? Contact us for more information.

Stoffenmanager®: A cyclical approach

Anchoring is not the final step, but part of a continuous process. At Stoffenmanager®, we ensure that anchoring is not just an administrative task, but a natural part of safe and healthy working.

From notifications to effective communication tools, we’re here to help you create a healthy and safe work environment.