Promoting Safety
Chapter 20
Goetsch
Purpose of safety promotion
Focus employees on doing their work the safe way, every day.
Design cannot always eliminate the potential for accidents
Anti-safety
What would be effective strategies for promoting a hazardous and unhealthful environment?
Take 10 minutes to develop a list of items.
Safety promotion
Company safety policy
Safety rules and regulations
Employee participation in promoting safety
Safety training
Suggestion programs
Safety promotion
Visual awareness
Safety committees
Personal commitment
Union/management participation
Incentives
Competition
Wellness programs
Company safety policy
Published
Must convey
Company commitment
Employee expectations
Commitment to external customers
Safety by example
Safety rules and regulations
Defines acceptable and unacceptable behavior
Employers must have S&H rules
Ensure that employees are knowledgeable
Must be enforced objectively and consistently
Safety rules and regulations
Objectivity - equal enforcement regardless of the person
Consistent - enforced in the same manner every time
Repeat violations
Guidelines for rules & regs
Minimize number
Clear & simple language
Only necessary rules
Involve employees in development
Only rules that can & will be enforced
Use common sense
Employee participation
Employees are experts
Involve them from the start
Effective programs are their programs
Safety training
Initial safety training - orientation
On-going - new, more specific, more in-depth knowledge, renewing, and updating
Suggestion programs
Solicit input from informed people
Involves and empowers people
Suggestions procedures
Receive a formal reply
Responded to immediately
Monitoring of departments by management
System costs and savings reported
Recognition and rewards
Implement good ideas
Minimize personality conflicts
Visual awareness guidelines
Change
Involve employees in developing messages
Simple and brief
Location
Use color, attention focusing
Safety committees
Formal structure for concerns and suggestions
Cross-section of workers
Managers ???
Empowered to identify and take steps to eliminate them
Personal commitment
Sign on the bottom line
Employee makes a commitment
Positively interact with fellow workers
Permission for fellow workers to correct them
Incentives
Define the objectives
Develop specific criteria
Make rewards meaningful
Employee incentive program
Clear communications
Reward teams not individuals
Competition
Involve employees in planning the competition
Groups rather than individuals
Fair competition - equal groups
Wellness programs
Help employees adopt a healthier lifestyle
Diet, exercise, stress management, other activities