3 risk management tools to keep employees safe

Your risk management system is like a moat. Without effective risk management, your employees are more exposed to risks and hazards. With a good system in place, you can protect your organization and keep hazards at bay.

Here are three risk management tools to help you minimize employee risk. 

Annual safety audits
While many organizations look for hazards to stay in compliance with OSHA or other agencies, it’s easy to overlook issues that are less obvious but that could still be contributing to incidents. Doing a safety audit for your organization can open your eyes to risks you haven’t addressed or may not have even considered, then come up with solutions.

Customized communication
Communication is a critical risk management tool in protecting employee safety. Do you want to reduce incidents? How about encouraging safety checks before a job? Identify a safety challenge, then develop customized communication to reinforce your end goal. Maybe you need to post guidelines near hazards, conduct daily safety review meetings or provide safety checklists for new hires. As always, the more communication you use to get your point across, the better.

Electronic safety management systems
Using an electronic safety management such as SIMS™, from ENDURE, allows you to manage your safety program online. This offers a number of risk management advantages, including giving companies real-time information for recorded incidents. Looking at this data will help you discover trends in employee safety, as well as areas of risk that need to be addressed.

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How to INCORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY into your SAFETY PROGRAM...

Simply announcing new safety programs or initiatives in your company isn’t enough to make them stick. To get buy-in for a safety culture, you need to tap into the personal accountability of each and every employee.

Here are some ways to keep your employees accountable to safety.

1. Put your name on it. Once you establish a new safety initiative, have 

    managers and executives sign a document or mission statement saying that

    they are personally committed to executing it. By letting employees hold you 

    and other executives accountable, you have more authority to do the same.

2. Show consistency. There can’t be a disconnect between what your

    managers are doing and what they’re asking employees to do. People need 

    to see consistency in execution, or they’re not going to see the benefit of a 

    new initiative. If your employees aren’t meeting goals or following safety 

    protocols, look at your managers to make sure they’re walking the talk.

3. Offer rewards. Talking about your corporate safety goals is great, but it 

    doesn’t show people the value of safety on an individual basis. Remind 

    people to make safety a priority by developing employee incentive programs 

    for meeting important safety goals.

4. Have safety conversations. The more you talk about safety, the more 

    people keep it front of mind, whether you’re encouraging them to utilize 

    stop-work authority or taking a few minutes at the beginning of an 

    operations meeting to discuss new safety suggestions.

5. Provide reminders. Give people cards with safety procedures printed on 

    them to keep in their wallets. Post safety guidelines on the walls in common  

    areas and provide forms for employees to offer feedback. The more 

    opportunities you offer for safety engagement, the more employees will 

    become engaged.

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Why safety training programs aren’t one-size-fits-all...

There’s nothing wrong with borrowing training tips from another business to use in your own safety program. However, think twice before copying another organization’s entire safety playbook. To create an effective safety training program, you need to customize it to make it specific to your operations, business and industry. Here’s why.

Needs vary by industry. Safety oversight of your business depends on your industry. If you’re in a stricter industry, such as government, construction or oil and gas, you may need to invest more money in a safety training program to ensure you’re meeting OSHA and/or EPA requirements for safety standards.

Your operations are continuously changing. No matter what your industry, your operations are constantly changing. You add new equipment, business lines and protocols. People switch jobs. Each company sets its own pace of change, so your training has to keep people up to speed on your individual operation at any given time. Certain divisions may require monthly safety training, while others just need an annual refresher.

Safety is site specific. Are your operations all at one facility, or at several? Do you have 10 employees or 100? Are people on site or dispersed? Your answers will dictate not only what kind of training you need, but also where and how you provide it. Some companies may be able to have daily training classes at headquarters, while others may need to provide remote training for employees who can’t meet face to face.

Training is a reflection of your culture. Your training embodies how your culture prioritizes and views safety, and if you want your company’s focus to be safety prevention, you need to design training that emphasizes preventive safety measures. Similarly, if you want to reinforce behavioral-based safety, your program should emphasize that.

Have a tip for customizing safety programs? Send it to info@endure-inc.com.

Tell us how often you train your employees on the importance of safety within the work place?  How many accidents do you have each year and how you go by preventing future incidents?

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