Employees safety doesn’t necessarily mean "creating a culture of safety." One way to look at safety is to make it a part of the fabric of your organization and part of the culture, and the way to achieve that is to start at the top. Key values of executive management trickle down to the workforce without it seeming like management is trying to will the workforce in a certain direction. Making employee safety a value of management, and supporting that with a cultivation of that value among employees, is the way to go.
Start with management, then support a broader employee safety effort by creating working groups of engaged employees, and then assign employee advocates that are not at an executive level but will instill the safety culture broadly among other employees. Safety is worth working for, it improves employee morale and improves any organizations bottom line by increasing productivity and reducing costs of accidents.
For more information on instilling the value of employee safety at your organization check out this article from Bill Whitmore on Huffington Post.
For more information on instilling the value of employee safety at your organization check out this article from Bill Whitmore on Huffington Post.
