Every supervisor, every manager and anybody in a leadership position should understand that poor housekeeping contributes to poor safety. Go and have a look at your workplace and ask yourself these ten questions. Read more…
In the 1970′s, The Insurance Company of America began an extensive analysis of industrial accidents. In the research which involved 297 companies representing 21 different industrial groups, 1.7 million accidents were reported. During the exposure period, 1,750,000 staff worked over 3 billion hours. Read more…
The strategy of introducing this sort of change must be thought through very carefully because its success depends on universal support. Read more…
Get the overall picture by interviewing the people who know most about the accident or incident. This will enable you to carry out a thorough accident investigation. Read more…
We have to take a different approach to health and safety in the workplace because what we’ve been doing is not working. In spite of our best efforts, we have driven health and safety underground by the use of blame and an over-dependence on unreliable statistics. Read more…
The most important group communication technique is probably the regular team talks that leaders have with their staff. At work, the leader is responsible for the lives and well-being of many people. It’s a basic never-ending part of a leader’s responsibility. By providing an effective safety forum on a regular basis, leaders can communicate, educate and motivate. Safety talks can be used to prevent injuries, incidents, production delays and waste. Read more…
Selecting a safety training provider can be a difficult task, in this article I’ll show you how to minimize the chances of getting it wrong. Consider this. It doesn’t matter how good the course content is, it doesn’t matter how up to date the safety information is, it doesn’t matter how much it cost, it doesn’t matter how long it takes, it doesn’t matter that the handouts are comprehensive; what does matter is the way the information is received by the group members. Read more…
We are failing to improve our workplace safety as the fatalities continue to mount up. The single biggest cause of our failure to improve, is that we are too frightened to step outside of our comfortable ways of thinking. There are two responses to fear, one is passive and the other active. Read more…
The objective of a daily safety briefing is to create an opportunity to start a dialogue with your group about safety. This serves a number of purposes. Firstly, you are sending a constant message that you regard workplace safety as a priority. Secondly, you can get feedback from your group members about hazards in the workplace. Read more…
Setting targets and objectives is a very important part of our everyday work life. It may be targets for sales, profit, safety, market share, staff turnover, absenteeism, share price and so on. These targets and objectives are vital because they give direction as well as prioritizing behavior. Read more…