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| 6 Ways to Gain Employee Buy-in |
Want to know the secret to improving your safety program? Keep your employees involved in the safety process on a daily basis and not just on the days when you remind them about safety procedures. Safety needs to be an ongoing part of the culture of your environment.
Here are six ways you can gain employee buy-in:
- Actively involve employees in safety issues. When conducting a regular inspection, invite employees along and explain the hazards. Don’t be quick to lay blame on any individual. Make the inspection something to learn from, not feel bad about.
- Rather than offering your ideas to solve a problem, encourage your teams to come up with their own ideas first. Since they’re the ones directly in contact with the hazards, you’ll find that there are many instances where they’ll come up with the right solutions.
- Communication is the key. Talk to your employees formally and informally on all safety-related issues and don’t shrug off their concerns. If you’re dealing with a union, communication is vital.
- When it comes to workplace safety you should all be on the same side of the fence. Don’t let personal feelings get in the way of doing the right thing if it will ensure the safety of your crew, even if it means filling out a few more forms or accepting an official grievance.
- Explain to employees that ultimately they are responsible for their own safety. All of the hearing protection, hand protection and safety eyewear in the world will not help them if they don’t wear it.
- Make safety meetings productive and interesting. Focus on identified safety issues, involve your employees in the meeting and take action on decisions as soon as possible.
Your safety training sessions probably include at least one or two trainees who aren’t fully engaged. Why? Well, there are many reasons why trainees tune out their trainers. Here are 10 reasons why training messages don’t reach their target. (Subscription to SafetySmart Online is required to access this page.)
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| If this guy falls from his precarious perch, all his co-worker is going to have are rope burns on his hands and perhaps some memories of the deceased worker. What were these two thinking? (WorkSafeVictoria, Australia) |
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| First Aid: What are an Employer’s Legal Obligations? |
No matter how hard you try to prevent it, sooner or later, a worker, supervisor, visitor or somebody else at your workplace is bound to suffer an illness or injury and require first aid.
Read more on this issue at OHSInsider.com.
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| OSHA Acts to Protect Residential Roofers From Falls |
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced a new directive which replaces a 1995 one allowing residential builders to bypass fall protection requirements.
The new directive requires that all residential construction workers be protected from falls.
OSHA notes that the 1995 directive was intended to be a temporary policy put in place as the result of concerns about the feasibility of fall protection in residential building sites. However, there continues to be a high number of fall-related deaths in construction, and industry experts now feel that feasibility is no longer an issue or concern.
“Fatalities from falls are the number one cause of workplace deaths in construction. We cannot tolerate workers getting killed in residential construction when effective means are readily available to prevent those deaths,” says OSHA Administrator Dr. David Michaels.
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