Safety Accountability
Safety Accountability in workplace
A few of my colleagues asked me how to ensure safety accountability is embedded in workplace. In my career I have initiated a few programs to embed Safety Accountability in workplace.
A simple question that I would like to ask you before I go on. How many Safety Professional do you have in your workplace?1?, 5? or 10? How about I tell you that you can have 20 or 50 safety oriented workers in the shop floor.
The idea is simple. Start a simple Safety Observation Program. Turn all your shop floor workers into Safety personnel. Imagine that you have 100 safety guys spotting at least one positive observation or one near miss a day. These numbers add up and definitely will prevent a fatality someday down the road.
It will not be easy initially as you need to change the mindset of your workers at the shop floor. Use a little motivation and carrot to get things started. Once the momentum is there, there will be invisible competition between them.
Stay safe!
President & Principal Consultant
8 年Nice article Kent. Accountability is very important element of a management system but I like how you included an observation program in this discussion. Definitely get more value, adoption and a safer culture through such a program. Nice job!