INCREASING PROFITS THROUGH LANDSCAPER SAFETY TRAINING COURSES

Your employees can’t work if they’re recovering. Safety should be the first thing on every contractor, or landscaper’s mind when working any job. Unsafe work is a slippery slope leading to rework, insurance liabilities, and a poor reputation among other contractors, or even customers. Here’s some tips on how safety training can drive profit and keep your budgets lucrative and predictable.

Safe Crews Are Profitable Crews

The last thing you should hear as a landscape business owner is that your crew is performing “back breaking work.” Working hard is important, but working safely should be priority number one. Thorough training systems from onboarding new landscapers to on the job training can save your crews grief from covering sick calls or outright no shows from a crew member hurting themselves on the job. The moment you lose that crew member for the day, you lose a key cog in your landscaping crew that will push back timelines and kill morale.

Get your crews to buy into a safe landscaping business. Walk them through how cutting corners and unsafe work can impact their days or their careers. It helps by going that extra mile to explain not just how to do the task, but why they’re doing it. Safety rules exist because somebody suffered to make them necessary.

Safety Keeps Your Budgets Predictable

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