Training
Investing in your existing employees can provide one of the best returns
on investment available. Training comes in all different sizes.
Our focus on increasing employee involvement identifies the tasks,
activities or locations that will typically provide the best return on
investment. Recognizing your best employees by asking them to help lay out
the most efficient work procedures promotes recognition, and usually, what
gets measured changes. Asking other employees to review the procedures and
add their tricks of the trade encourage involvement and contributions from
outliers, who might normally remain silent while having excellent skills to
share.
Again, our goal is to help companies to develop a sense of ownership of the
practices by the employees rather than simply adding secondary missions. One
of the secondary benefits is the identification of potential leaders that
might otherwise go unnoticed.
While supervisors may be good at producing goods and services, many struggle
to identify and take productive measure to intervene when they see an
accident waiting to happen. Providing them with the tools to make active
decisions, as well as the knowledge of when and how to ask for assistance is
one of the keys to prevention as well as early intervention. Many fail to
realize how critical the first few moments following an upset condition can
be. Immediate reactions and comments can have a significant impact on the
motivation of the employee to return to work.
Safety Committees may be one of the most underutilized groups within a
company. We provide on-line tutorials that can quickly help committee
members develop basic business plans to improve safety in their areas in
days and weeks rather than months or never.
Safety Committee involvement should be seen as one of the first steps of
advancement.