Safety: It’s Really All About Teamwork

The following information is excerpted from an article entitled "Team + Work = Safety" published a while back in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine and Aviation Operations Safety and Environmental Management monthly newsletter.

The article quoted several managers about the importance of teamwork:

• "It takes everyone working together cooperatively for everyone to be truly safe."
• "Teamwork means taking the time to show someone else the safe way to do a job and asking for help if you are not sure what to do."
• "Cooperation of this sort is necessary because we’re all in this together—in life itself—and life, like work, is not only safer and more productive but even more fun when we cooperate."

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• Also quoted were some employees at a company with a zero-accident goal:
• "The secret is personal commitment and communication, and looking out for one another, too." (office worker)  
• " Anybody who does something unsafe in the shop gets jumped on by the rest of us—but never maliciously or to downgrade the person. We police one another because we care about one another." (welder)
• "I’ve learned that safety is a two-way street: The worker has to be involved, but the go-ahead from the top is essential." (mechanic)

Remember, new employees need to feel they’re part of your safety team from their first day on the job. This is especially important since statistics show that the first few weeks on the job are the most dangerous for new workers.

So don’t let new members of your team get sidelined by an accident before they have a chance to make their mark. Welcome them personally to your safety team and encourage their participation in making a safe workplace.

We challenge you to NOT find a safety meeting you need, already prewritten, in BLR’s Safety Meetings Library. Take up our challenge at no cost or risk. Get the details.

Train Your Team

BLR’s Safety Meetings Library provides the perfect materials for training your team to be safety winners. The Library offers materials for conducting frequent and engaging training on a wide variety of essential safety and health topics. This cost-effective resource not only provides safety meetings on each topic, but it also gives you ready-to-use supporting handouts, quizzes, posters, and safety slogans.

All told, the CD provides you with more than 400 ready-to-train meetings on more than 100 key safety topics—a shrewd investment in this time of tight safety budgets. In addition to the meetings’ supplemental quizzes and handouts, you also get relevant regulations (OSHA’s CFR 29), a listing of the most common safety violations cited by OSHA, and case studies of actual OSHA cases and their outcomes.

Safety Meetings Library lets you choose from a variety of training approaches, including:

• Mandatory—Sessions that are OSHA-required
• Comprehensive—Sessions with broadest coverage of a topic
• 7-Minute—Short, simple, targeted sessions to fit tight schedule  
• Initial—A session used as introductory training on a topic
• Refresher—Sessions that follow up on or reinforce previous training 
• Tool Box Talk—More informal reinforcement of a topic
• PowerPoint^®—Graphic presentations for comprehensive initial or refresher training
• Hands-on—A session in which there are training activities  
• Spanish—Including Spanish language handouts and quizzes coordinated with English sessions

You can get a preview of the program by using the links below. But for the best look, we suggest a no-cost, no-obligation trial. Just let us know and we’ll arrange it for you.