The Secret Ingredient to an Effective Security Awareness Program: Employee Artwork

Visual art has a unique and amazing appeal that most people enjoy, particularly when crafted by individuals they know. By fostering a workplace culture that encourages the display of employee artwork, which is themed around safety and security, your workforce is likely to view it, contemplate the messaging, and apply it proactively. This, in turn, will result in implementing workplace safety and security best practices, leading to a safer workplace for all - an aspiration shared by every organization.

Thus, companies should establish a program that grants their artists creative freedom to produce and showcase safety and security-themed art projects to promote safety and security awareness and best practices to safeguard the workforce better.

Calling all Artists!?

Every company has hidden artistic talent within its workforce. By simply sending out an email requesting any resident artists to step forward, you may be surprised by the artistic talent in front of you. Artists generally love working on art projects and showcasing their work. This characteristic can be leveraged intelligently when building a company-wide safety and security awareness program.

You'll be able to enlist the help of your company's resident artists to create art projects that represent the safety and security awareness topics you want to convey. Once the employee art projects are complete, you can showcase their safety and security artwork throughout the company, on physical walls or virtually on employees' computer screens. By sharing this safety and security awareness artwork in a weekly email or Slack posting, all employees can appreciate and learn from it in an uplifting way. By encouraging creativity and collaboration, you can create a safety and security awareness culture ingrained in your company's values and culture.

The Security Awareness Art Project Design

If you wish to initiate an artistic safety and security awareness program at your company, here are the steps you need to take:?

Step 1: Develop a list of safety and security awareness topics that you want your employees to understand and put into practice.

Step 2: Send a company-wide email inviting all employee artists to participate in the security awareness art program. Ask them to choose one or two of the safety and security awareness topics and to create a piece of art that conveys the central message of that topic. To support their creativity, provide each artist with a $25.00 stipend to cover any expenses they may incur for art materials.

Step 3: Once all the safety and security awareness art pieces have been collected, have your Workplace Team select the best art pieces to be displayed physically on the walls of your company or digitized and sent out to all employees in a weekly email or Slack posting.

Step 4: Always respect the artist's request to remove their artwork from the program. If an artist leaves the company, return their art to them and delete any digital images of their artwork.

To keep the program fresh, repeat it once a quarter. If there are too many artists who want to participate, you can always put a cap on the number of artists allowed in the program each quarter.

The Security Awareness Art Project Invitation?

Your email asking all company artists to come out of the woodwork and take part in your safety and security awareness art program can look something like what can be seen below.:?

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Subject: Calling All (Company Name) Artists: Join Our Security Awareness Art Program!

Dear (Company Name) Artists,

We are excited to announce our new Safety and Security Awareness Art Program, and we want you to be a part of it! As artists, you have the unique ability to convey important messages through your creative works, and we believe that your talents can help us promote safety and security awareness throughout the company.

Here's how the program works:

1. Choose a safety and security topic from the list below.
2. Create a piece of artwork that reflects the chosen topic.
3. Submit your completed artwork project to the Workplace Team by May 15, 2023.
4. The Workplace Team will select the best art pieces to be displayed physically on the walls of our company or digitized and sent out to all employees in a weekly email or Slack posting.
5. You will be reimbursed for up to $25.00 to cover the cost of your art materials.
6. Your artwork will always belong to you and will be returned to you whenever you wish.

Here are the safety and security topics to choose from:

• Anti-workplace violence
• Anti-tailgating
• Wear your employee ID Badge visibly while in our workplaces
• Report the loss of an employee badge and pick up your replacement
• Lock your computer screen when not working
• Safeguard your passwords at all times
• Keep your office visitors in line of sight at all times
• If you see anything that concerns you, say something
• Keep confidential conversations confidential
• Be aware of and report phishing attempts
• Don’t be fooled by social engineering
• Report suspicious-looking invoices
• Do not open email attachments from people you do not know
• Do not use thumb drives that the IT team has not cleared
• Keep the company’s confidential information confidential?

Please remember that your artwork must be workplace-appropriate and should not offend anyone. You can use any art media or style you desire as long as it conveys the central message of your chosen topic.

We hope you'll join us in this exciting opportunity to promote safety and security awareness throughout our company. Thank you for being so interested, and we look forward to seeing your amazing artwork!

Best regards,

(Your Name)

(Your Title)

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If you implement this artistic security awareness program correctly, the walls and computer screen will soon be flooded with amazing and effective safety and security awareness images that will promote a more safe and security workplace in no time.??

A Final Note:?

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