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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
Step # 7 Keep an Eye on Changing Attitudes
If you notice employees getting sloppy, careless, or taking risks, put a stop to it right away. Talk one-on-one with the individuals involved. Hold a safety meeting to review policies and procedures with all employees. Use the situation as a training opportunity to provide additional information or improve skills. Do whatever it takes to change unsafe attitudes and behavior into positive safety performance.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
Step # 6 Get into a Team to Solve Problems
Set up employee teams to solve safety problems. Let team members gather information, analyze possible causes of safety problems, develop and test solutions, and implement and monitor results. Being part of a safety team makes members feel that they share responsibility for workplace safety. And when other employees see their co-workers getting involved and making the job safer for everyone, they’ll want to get in on the action, too.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
Step # 5 Be Specific
Try not to make general statements about working safely. They don’t tell too much and are not that helpful.
Be specific about what employees have to do and how to do it to protect themselves.
If you are concerned that they will not remember all the details, provide them with handouts and job aids like checklists, procedure guidelines and operating manuals.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#4 Communicate Often
Talk! Talk! Talk! The more you talk to your co-workers and staff about safety the more likely they are to implemet and follow procedures. Keep them up to date on new procedures, regualtions and information that affects their safety. Provide feedback, praise safe performance, and discuss areas for improvement. Encourage the flow of communication both ways. Encourage and reward staff for coming up with new safety regualtions and procedures. Brainstorm together for safety ideas and suggestions.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#3 Analyze Jobs for Safety’s Sake
Know each job in your department so well that you can spot every potential hazard. If a different method will eliminate a hazard, introduce it. If PPE is required, make sure it’s available. And think about housekeeping requirements, too. Sometimes, hazards are created as a by-product of a job-combustible scrap and trash, for example, or tools left lying around where somebody could trip over them.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance.
Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#2 Stress Training
Emphasize employee safety and accident prevention by having regular employee orientations. Follow through with regular safety meetings, informal talks, and required training sessions. Answer employees questions about safety procedures and give them the answers they need to work safely. If you don’t know the answer contact someone who does. Engage your employees in the rules. Rules are less likley to get broken if staff knows and understands why they have been put in place.
