Traits And Tactics For Conducting Safety Culture Assessments

الجمعة، 20 أبريل 2018

By Dennis Kelly


Shared attitudes, perceptions and common practices that influence the behavioral choices of your employees should be evaluated after sometimes. The performance of your employees can be affected by the leadership, location, peer pressure, logistics, location and workplace conditions. However, through coordinated assessment processes, you can develop a well-being culture that will enhance their performance bringing a positive impact on your company. Below are tactics that will enable you to conduct fruitful safety culture assessments.

To come up with a satisfactory assessment that will be adopted by all members of the company, you must review policies, programs and documentation. Get familiar with the past initiatives, programs and audits. With a further insight, you will understand how you can make the business productive and more efficient. Moreover, check if there were any incentives, active communication channels and rewards or recognition programs for the employees.

Delegate a date when the evaluation will begin and let everyone working in the firm know. This will help them prepare for the interview because people might not be resourceful if they are caught off guard. The employees will have time to find different things that could be affecting their safety while working and that will be discussed freely because of their preparations.

This type of culture assessment cannot be done without good plans. Consider visiting the site earlier before the meeting takes place. Visit areas that have ongoing works and learn the logistics and the safety issues that might be rocking the site. From the tour, the assessing officer will get an understanding of how the employees behave and what can be done to change their way of doing things.

Most of the protection concerns affect the management of a company at large, and they should be briefed about the evaluation earlier. Take an hour or a few minutes with the management and the supervisory team as a way of making them your part of the mission. As such, cooperation between the team and the employees will be great giving you ample time in collecting data and surveying the premises.

Another challenge that you must avoid is asking questions to all the employees at once. Break them into small sections and get your questions across. They will not hesitate to give you information on what is their problem, particularly on safety. Moreover, if a member of the group raises great concerns that need deeper digging, you can call him or her aside after the session is over to get the facts straight.

Experienced and skilled assessment firms know that it is essential for you to develop a report after assessing the projects. The story should be focused on capabilities, nature, perceptions and direction that the project has taken. Ensure that anything which could cause accidents is covered for the safety of the workers. A few things can be suggested to the company in the bid to improve their working safety.

Safety procedures keep on changing, and it is your responsibility to keep checking from time to time. When your employees get injured at the firm, you encounter losses from treatments or settlement of filed claims. Therefore, conduct the safety culture assessment twice or thrice a year to stay clear of claims.




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