Creating a work environment where people are safe takes a culture where leaders effectively enforce safety practices and employees hold themselves and each other accountable to those practices. To incorporate safe work practices in your culture, you need to balance safety leadership and personal accountability. Here are some tips to get you on the right track.
Employ a safety program manager. Keeping at least one permanent employee on staff to run your safety and environmental management program ensures that someone in your organization is continuously driving safety policy, learning new rules and making recommendations for safety improvements.
Put safety in your
mission. Your mission statement should be a personal commitment statement to
employees about what is important to your company. The key word here is
“personal.” If your mission statement reads like a corporate brochure, rewrite
it to explain why safety is important to your company and its culture.
Have more safety
conversations. Encourage people to talk about safety at all levels of
your organization, which empowers employees to take steps to drive safety
practices, whether it is utilizing stop-work authority, reminding co-workers
about safety protocols or proactively making suggestions to create a safer
workplace.
Get mobile. In introducing a mobile application for safety
personnel to manage real-time data about incidents, compliance and other aspects
of your safety program empowers them to identify gaps in training or processes and
take steps to improve them.
If you have ideas on how to integrate safety into your culture, we
would love to hear them. Send your suggestions to info@endure-inc.com.
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