How to get BUY-IN from EMPLOYEES for a SAFETY CULTURE?

You can talk about safety at every meeting, every training session and recruiting trip – but at the end of the day, making safety a priority in your organization isn’t about words. It’s about actions.

A true commitment to safety requires the support and accountability of everyone in your organization.

Here are a few steps that you can take to get buy-in for your safety culture:

1. Do a “cultural audit.”

Hire an outside consultant to interview your top executives and employees in the field about how they view the role of safety in your organization and their likes and dislikes of operational systems and processes. Use this honest feedback to craft safety policies and training programs that will work for your culture and that people are likely to follow.

2. Revisit your mission statement.

Reflect on the role that you want safety to play in your company. Then revise your mission statement to make it a “personal commitment statement” to employees about the value of a safety culture and their role in driving it. When you’re done, have top leaders sign it and post it throughout the company.

3. Lead by example.

Get your executive team to practice safety values and be accountable to your safety culture, and their direct employees will emulate them. Their employees will then set the culture for their direct reports and so on, down through the organization. 

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