Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Good Strategies to Renew a Safety Culture



While strategies to address safety and health have shifted over time, it’s always useful to take an inventory of what you’ve done, are currently doing and other ideas to focus on what might be useful in the future.

Has your commitment to safety truly been and continues to be a corporate value? And have your executives merely providing lip service to it?  Has it become just a slogan on the corporate website?  Here are some ideas you might want to use to refresh your safety culture:

  • Do a complete analysis of all the important safety initiatives you used over the last couple of years, tie the results to a real ROI for each initiative and make a presentation to executive management.
  • Have executives renew their commitment to  your workforce by meeting with them in small groups and recognizing them for their performance
  • Renew or initiate a communications channel to the workforce including information about performance.
  • Focus on housekeeping, working on reducing messy or disorganized work areas.
  • Have field management work with your crews after work assignments are made to walk the site to see if there are existing hazards that need to be addresse
  • Check to make sure you have been keeping things simple: don’t complicate the process. Your focus should be on safety, not the steps.
  • Engage your workers: ask them for ideas to renew and refresh your approach to safety.
  • If you’re using any form of behavior based safety remind your managers that it is an application of the real science of behavior change to real world problems.  It should focus on what people do, analyze why they do it, apply a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what they do, and then recognize and reward the improved performance. 

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