When your company's Safety & Health Committee has turned into Complaints Committee, your company is in danger!

Safety and Health Committee (SHC) is the backbone of any company as far as occupational safety, health and workers' well-being are concerned. Everyone knows that any company that cares about these 3 issues (safety, health, well-being) has to have a safety & health committee. But do they? Most safety committees that I have seen are little more than opportunities for people to eat doughnuts and bitch about how little the rest of the organization cares about safety and health! In fact, most of the meetings are nothing more than complaints session.

The poorest performing safety committees all seem to share the same limited meeting skills. There are no agendas, even with some agendas they are so poor that they are essentially just pieces of paper with no value, little courtesy committee members are talking over each other, wandering wildly off-topic, or just generally behaving rudely, and meeting notes, if issued at all, are largely ignored. The lack of meeting skills isn’t limited to safety committees of course, but the need is more acute when the purpose of a meeting is to make the workplace safer. 

Too many safety & health efforts miss a key element of hazard management: a DATABASE that electronically tracks the progress of hazards from identification to correction. 

Actually there are FIFTEEN major roles of a Safety & Health committee. Does your committee aware of these?

What about SIX basic necessities for developing sustainable and effective Safety & Health committee?

And there are FIVE approaches for values-added and effective safety & health committee meeting session. Do you aware about them?

A good Safety & Health Committee (SHC) can be a valuable part of a high functioning and robust safety management process, but it doesn’t just happen. A company needs to carefully cultivate its safety & health committee such that it aligns with, and supports, the overall safety strategy. What I discovered from conducting this enhanced SHC training modules was that for most companies it is far more effective and valuable to achieve sustainable and effective SHC when the members can turn the committee from mere complaints committee into a truly effective SHC when they are trained to master the FIFTEEN major roles, SIX basic necessities and FIVE approaches as shown below.

This could be the best SHC course modules for your company in 2019.

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November 2018.