Safety Culture will improve when the communications about safety within the organization improve. Besides increasing the quantity of communication, consider the quality.
The notice read: “An inspirational keynote speech preferably from someone who's had an accident. A leave-behind message to always be mindful and follow procedures. A flat fee of $(cheap). No phone calls please.”
Trying to get employees to embrace safety as a personal value is one of the toughest things that safety personnel are faced with. It's not impossible, but it will take skills, commitment and perseverance.
When marketing and promotion of safety goes up, incidents go down. Plain and simple, this works. Promoting safety raises awareness which causes people to be focused. Safety promotion is a key component of any good safety program. Ongoing campaigns for safety remind employees to make good decisions between safety meetings.
Personal Development! It’s all you need to go from grunt to leader. Of course, you have to actually buy-in to what you learn and you have to want to be better, and you have to discipline yourself to improve every day. But it can be done. People do it it all the time.
There used to be a time when safety was considered an expense (if you’re still thinking this way, it may be time for you to retire). The days of “we don’t have to the budget to spend on safety” are quickly coming to an end. Safety is not an expense - it’s an investment. And simply put, the better you get at safety, the better your company will do financially.
I had the pleasure of speaking at a safety meeting last week that broke the mold of boring safety meetings. They organized a quarterly safety event which replaced their monthly safety meetings. According to the safety manager who organized the event, my book, The Perfect Safety Meeting, played a big part in their new attitude toward safety meetings.
The Olympics are on. I find it difficult to get any work done during the Olympics because I’m an Olympics junkie. Once I’ve cleared off my desk for the day, it’s to the big chair, remote in hands to jump back and forth between the almost dozen channels that feature Olympic coverage.
I got my start as a professional speaker very early on. I entered radio when I was fourteen years old; my father owned a small-town radio station. Some refer to radio as the media. But radio is only a part of media as is television, newspaper, bus benches, billboards, Yellow Pages and on the list goes.
