Yesterday, we looked at the first 6 of 12 suggestions for promoting safety during National Safety Month and all year long. Today, we pick up with steps 6 through 12, and we invite you to try a money-saving resource for meeting all your safety training needs.
(Here are the first six suggestions for promoting and improving workplace safety and health.)
7. Watch for 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 safety meetings 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.
8. Know the Shape Workers Are In
Be aware of employees’ physical condition. For example, a worker who is out of shape is more susceptible to back injuries. A worker returning to work after recovering from a job injury might not be physically up to performing his or her regular job for awhile. Or an employee with a physical disability might need accommodation to safely perform a job. Also be on the lookout for problems like fatigue or illness. Either one can affect performance and place the employee or someone else at risk.
9. Play It Straight
Enforce safety standards uniformly and consistently. Don’t allow some employees to get away with bending rules—and expect to enforce them with the rest of your staff. Don’t come down on somebody one day for not following a rule and then ignore the same behavior the next day because you’re too busy to deal with it. And don’t just tell workers that they did something wrong. Explain why it’s wrong and how to do it right.
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10. Reward Safe Behavior
Most employees want approval and recognition. When they follow safe work practices or make safety suggestions, let them know you’re pleased and grateful. When you’re busy and under a lot of pressure, it’s easy to focus only on the negative things employees do. Make sure they get credit for the good stuff, too.
11. Be Patient and Listen
Maintain an “open door” policy and be accessible to employees. You want them to know they can always come to their supervisors and managers when they have questions or concerns about hazards or safe procedures.
12. Create a ‘Want-To’ Safety Culture
Create a safety culture in your organization in which employees do the safe thing not because they have to, but because they want to—because they want to avoid injuries so that they can go home to their families in one piece at the end of the workday. Help employees see the value in making the safe decisions. Remind them how many safety-related decisions they make every day and how one bad decision is all it takes to get hurt.
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A safe and healthful workplace that embodies a “want-to” safety culture is based on skilled, knowledgeable employees. And one of the best ways to make sure that your employees have the skills and knowledge they need to work safely is to train them with BLR’s 7-Minute Safety Trainer. Training sessions included in this invaluable safety training resource provide you with detailed trainer’s outlines as well as illustrated handouts, quizzes, and quiz answers to get your points across quickly—and cost-effectively.
All told, this “trainer’s bible” contains 50 prewritten meetings covering almost every aspect of safety you’d want or need to train on, in a format designed to be taught in as little as 7 minutes. Major topics include:
—Confined spaces
—Electrical safety
—Fire safety and emergency response
—HazCom
—Machine guarding and lockout/tagout
—Material handling
—PPE use and care
—Housekeeping/slips, trips, and falls
—and dozens more
Just make as many copies as you need of the included handouts and quizzes, and you’re ready to train.
Equally important is that the program ships new meetings every quarter to respond to new and changed regulations. This service is included in the program price, which averages just over $1 a working day. In fact, this is one of BLR’s most popular safety programs.
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