Do you think your employees "tune out" when you start talking about safety?
Here are some tips, from Safety Smart Weekly, for keeping the safety message alive in the workplace:
1) Variety is vital and change is good. Don’t leave the same newsletter, bulletin or poster tacked up for months at a time. Keep the material interesting and fresh. Rotate posters and bulletins at least monthly.
2) Safety isn’t a workplace behavior; it’s a life behavior. Since workers are more likely to be injured or killed off the job than they are on the job, it’s important to address off-the-job safety in your safety messages, such as how to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning at home or ladder safety.
3) Nothing speaks to safety like experience. Encourage workers who have had close calls or made their workplaces safer to tell their stories in your company’s newsletter.
4) Your company’s intranet can also be a useful tool to promote safety. Intranet messages can easily be targeted to specific areas of a plant or sent out to everyone if it pertains to, say, National Fire Prevention Week or some other safety event that concerns all employees.
5) Are your safety messages getting through to your employees? Take a walk through your plant, looking for up-to-date and relevant posters, bulletins and newsletters.