How To Conduct All-inclusive Safety Culture Assessments

الأربعاء، 28 نوفمبر 2018

By William Cole


Keeping working and living environments safe requires constant evaluation. It is recommended that you conduct safety culture assessments on regular basis with the aim of improving on existing measures and averting catastrophes in future. There are steps that will make your assessment thorough and beneficial as provided by experts.

Scrutinize the documents, programs and policies put in place by a business, residential or commercial complex to keep it safe. Keeping such places safe requires deliberate effort and meticulous planning. There are industry regulations that also have to be followed. The aim of looking at the paper is to establish the level of awareness, preparedness and conformity. You will use these policies and emerging issues as your checklist.

Communicate with employees and the management before you make any interaction. The aim is to get a positive and collaborative environment. These employees you are going to interact with need to know what you are looking for and the benefits they will reap from the process. Their responses will be open minded because they understand your goal. You need to brief them that the assessment is for their own benefit.

The best time to conduct assessment is when a factory or office is in full operation. In case you are assessing a residential area, ensure that almost everyone is home. This gives you a perfect time to assess what could happen in real time. You can also judge how people conduct their activities without simulation. Where operations are scaled down like machines being switched off or some people being away, the level of danger may be underrated or response overrated.

The leadership of the organization should be involved. Though they are not in every corner of the complex, they provide the resources and directions required to keep work places and other complexes safe. Discuss about meeting regulations set for the industry, policies of the company and your findings on the ground. Even the recommendations made will depend on their initiative to keep the place safe. They need to know that the assessment is meant to protect their premises from damage and people from injuries.

Develop a personalized survey. Each work or living environment faces unique challenges. Even when working in the same sector, the people involved, space and overall environment will differ. This means that a generic survey will not add any value to your assessment. You need a checklist that is specific to your needs and with categories that fit your firm at the moment.

Group and individual interviews will give you a broader report. Measuring culture is complex because you have to consider such metrics as realities in workplace, perceptions, incidences that happened in the past and people involved, among other elements. Discuss how safety is communicated, successes and failures in the past, effectiveness of measures taken and past incidences, among other issues. Groups create a sense of shared responsibility.

The report emanating from your assessment should recommend both rapid and sustained ways of improving the situation. Beyond the measures taken by the client, those of neighbors and the wider environment are important. When neighbors are safe, your client will also be safe.




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