Promoting safety

Major topics
• How to promote safety
• Company safety policy
• Safety rules and regulations
• Employee participation in promoting safety
• Safety trainings
• Suggestion programs
• Visual awareness
• Union/management participation
• Incentives
• competition
 How to promote safety
One of the best way to promote safety is to
design it into tools, machines and technologies
With which people interact in the work place.
To avoid accidents/illnesses it is imperative to
have accident prevention procedures and make
sure employees follow them.
 Company safety policy
Promoting safety begins with having a published
company safety policy. The policy should make it
clear that safe work practices are expected of all
employees at all levels at all time.
The safety policy serve as a foundation upon
which all other promotional efforts are built.
 Continued
The company safety policy should convey atleast
the following messages.
 The company is committed to health and
safety.
 Employees are expected to perform their
duties in a safe and healthy manner.
 The company's commitment extends beyond
the walls of it's plant to include customers and
the community.
 Safety rules and regulations
A company's safety policy is translated into
every day action and behavior by rules and
regulations. From legal point of view an
employee obligations regarding safety rules can
be summarized as follows.
 Employers must have rules that can ensure a
safe and healthy workplace.
 Employers must ensure that all employees are
knowledgeable about the rules.
 Employers must ensure that safety rules are
enforced objectively and consistently.
Employees participation in promoting
safety.
One of the key to successfully promoting safety
is to involve employees. They usually know
better than any one where hazards exist
 Safety trainings
One of the best ways to promote safety in the
work place is to provide all employees with
ongoing safety trainings. Initial safety trainings
should be part of the orientation process for
new employees. Subsequent safety training
should be aimed at developing new and
updating existing knowledge.
 Suggestion programs
Suggestions programs if properly handled
,promote health and safety.
in order for suggestion program to work ,they
must meet certain criteria.
 Good ideas should be implemented
 Personality conflicts must be minimized.
 Visual awareness
We tend to be a visual society. This is why
television and billboards are so effective in
marketing promotions.
 Change signs, posters and other visual aids
periodically.
 Use colures when ever possible to attract
attention to the visual aid.
 Union/management participation
An excellent way to promote safety is to secure
the cooperation of management and labor.
 Incentives
If properly used, incentives can help promote
safety.
In order to effectively promote safety, incentives
must be properly structured.
 Competition
It is another strategy that can be used to
promote safety. Competition can be organized
between teams,shifts,divisions or plants.