Breaking the Chain of Repeat Accidents

Armed with yesterday’s information about the people and places most likely to be involved in repeat accidents, as well as some contributing factors, we’re ready to move on to strategies for stopping them. Here are some suggestions from the OSHA Required Training for Supervisors monthly newsletter:

• Make safety a top priority. Talk about safety, conduct safety audits, and encourage suggestions from employees for improving safety.


• Set a goal to eliminate repeat accidents. Make sure all of your employees—not just those involved in an accident—understand the causes of prior accidents and the steps they need to take to avoid a repeat.


• Train as if their lives depended on it—because they do! Your employees’ safety on the job depends on their skills, knowledge, awareness, and judgment. Training strengthens and develops all these safety essentials.


• Reinforce safe behavior. Get out there among your employees every day and praise those who are working safely. Talk to those who are taking risks and redirect them into following safe procedures. Consider retraining those whose performance indicates a lack of requisite safety skills or knowledge.

Whatever safety meeting you need, chances are you’ll find it prewritten and ready to use in BLR’s Safety Meetings Library on CD. Try it at no cost or risk. Here’s how.

• Don’t use discipline without also offering help. You may need to resort to discipline when coaching and counseling fail to correct unsafe behavior. But don’t discipline without also providing support and feedback about safe performance.


• Emphasize hazard detection and reporting. Just because something was OK yesterday doesn’t mean it hasn’t become a hazard today. Keep alert and make sure your employees keep their eyes open, too.


• Investigate every incident. Whether it was a near miss or an accident that caused injuries and damage, investigate until you find the cause and correct it.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Safety attitude is the key to a safe workplace. But it doesn’t happen overnight, and the message needs to be repeatedly reinforced—preferably in a variety of ways and formats.

That’s one of the reasons why we are so excited about BLR’s Safety Meetings Library. This versatile, CD-based tool contains no fewer than 35 safety meetings on various aspects of safety attitude. Among the sessions you can use to drive home your safety message are:

• A Close Look at Close Calls


• Accidents Don’t “Just Happen”


• Be a Safety Booster


• Develop a Healthy Safety Attitude


• Don’t Take Anything for Granted


• Employee Safety Responsibilities


• Excuses, Excuses


• Forget About Luck


• Golden Rule for Safety


• Hurry-Up Can Hurt


• Instilling Safety Awareness


• It Can’t Happen to You?


• Looking Back, Thinking Ahead


• Make Hazard Recognition Second Nature


• Making Zero Accidents Our Goal


• Our Safety Mission Needs Your Ideas


• Right Habit, Safe Habit


• Setting a Good Example


• Start and Finish Safely


• Stay on Guard


• Take Safety Personally


• Think Safety


• Unsafe Shortcuts


• Who’s Responsible for Safety


• And many more.

All told, Safety Meetings Library provides you with more than 400 ready-to-train meetings on more than 100 key safety topics. The in-depth meeting outlines are supplemented with quizzes and handouts, as well as with 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.

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.

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 schedules


• Initial—A session used as introductory training on a topic


• Refresher—Sessions that follow up on or reinforce previous training


• Tool Box Talks—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.

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