167656 Resource 147685 147762 147761 1177969016280 1210349513518 Controlled Safety Culture Key to Safety Performance

Steps to help create a safety culture

<p>Successful safety performance will come about with a successful safety culture.&nbsp; It takes the values set by management to determine the way that the workforce acts.&nbsp; Therefore, a safety conscience culture has to be established through the management and passed along to the workforce.</p><p>Here are a few steps to help create a safety culture:</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Present workplace safety as a continuous process and not just a compliance requirement</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Actively encourage workers to improve safety performance, and recognize improvements</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Involve the employees in the safety decision making process</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use accident investigations as action planning, not fault-finding missions</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explain why new safety processes have been implemented and how to measure its success</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Investigate &ldquo;near-misses&rdquo; as indicators of a series of events and not as a one-time or isolated event</p><p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When accidents or &ldquo;near-misses&rdquo; occur look first at why the safety process failed instead of looking to place blame.</p> 10 application/xml false accident accident investigation loss control near-miss PEO professional employer organization safety culture safety process workers compensation workplace safety Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jimt 216.58.130.130 false true false false true 147685 blog blogsite/StaffScapes/web