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FROM THE DESK OF RANDALL A. KROCKA
SMOHIT Administrator
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Strengthening Jobsite Safety Climate
Safety culture is defined as "An environment in which employees at all levels do what is right for themselves, their leaders and the organization, even when they would personally gain from noncompliance, because they are bought in and connected to the organization and its vision."
Building a culture of safety takes persistent and vigilant attention to communication, processes and leadership. It strongly influences how closely people follow explicit rules - or whether they follow them at all. Employees trained to comply with rules, without a sense of the bigger picture or the principles of why we do what we do, are not positioned to respond when irregularities occur.
With this in mind, our friends at CPWR have published a new workbook, Strengthening Jobsite Safety Climate, which contains a quick self-assessment for leading indicators of safety culture. This is followed by a list of ideas that owners, contractors, safety directors and supervisory staff can implement to evaluate and improve their safety climate. The ideas range from including safety in company mission statements and holding daily huddles to using suggestion boxes on the jobsite and implementing near-miss reporting system |
