Safety
Contact us for ideas of how to increase employee involvement in identifying
the most productive and safe work practices.
Creating a safe work environment is actually an outcome measurement or
goal. Management can't "do" safety or "cause" safety to occur. What they can
do is to create the best environment to allow employees to exercise their
ability to make the right decisions every day. The more involved the
employees are, the greater their investment in identifying and transferring
skills and knowledge, the better your outcome measures and safety will be.
Safety should be the key to achieving optimal production, not a
"secondary mission."
Supervisors and Safety Committees can be the most productive tools an
employer has. Providing the structure that encourages optimal employee
involvement provides the best return on investment. Like all business
operations, this requires developing business plans modeled after successful
programs. Plans of this nature help supervisors and Safety Committee members
focus the majority of their efforts where it will provide the best return on
investment.
The best outcome of increasing production at optimal rates, using methods
that encourage employee involvement is a drop in the frequently, seriousness
and costs of accidents.