Friday, April 20, 2018

Ways Of Conducting Successful Safety Culture Assessments

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.

On the evaluation, day start by having a small session with the team that is mandated with supervision or management in the firm. If the management team is against the exercise, you can be assured of no response from the employees. Therefore, you must make them understand the importance of the activity and how it is going to benefit them. As such, they will cooperate and advice their employees to respond to your questions during the interview.

Group assessment should not be encouraged because the answers will come in a chorus and some people will fear to talk about issues in front of others. Therefore, conduct individual interviews where necessary and take every safety issue laid by the employees as serious. In case an employee puts some questionable facts, he or she can be pushed further to reveal more.

Whether you are evaluating the protection or well-being of your company or have been hired to assess a different company, you must come up with a report. The document should reflect on the safety problems, what could happen if they are not mitigated earlier and how they can be controlled. As such, the concerned parties will have a way forward from the report.

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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