Description:
Creating a safety culture in the workplace takes time, patience, and is often a multi-year process. This training program will examine how organizations need to transition from the existing zero injury workplace culture to a more safety-oriented culture. In the process, it will examine the pros and cons behind each process and also offer best practices to determine whether you are doing it right.
Why Should You Attend:
This webinar will focus on evolving from a zero-incident workplace culture within any organization to a more safety-oriented culture. It will discuss the pros and cons of a implementing a zero-incident workplace culture and describe how to determine if you are doing it right.
The session will also discuss how a zero-injury workplace safety culture consists of shared beliefs, practices, and attitudes that exist within an organization. An organization’s safety culture is the result of a number of factors that include, but not limited to:
- Management and employee norms, assumptions and beliefs.
- Management and employee attitudes;
- Values, myths, stories.
- Policies and procedures.
- Supervisor priorities, responsibilities and accountability.
- Production and bottom-line pressures vs. quality issues.
- Actions or lack of action to correct unsafe behaviors.
- Employee training and motivation; and
- Employee involvement or "buy-in."
Creating this culture takes time, patience and dedicated resources. It is frequently a multi-year process. A series of continuous process improvement steps can be followed to create a safety culture. Employer and employee commitment are hallmarks of a true safety culture where safety is an integral part of daily operations.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain what it means to have a ‘zero incident workplace culture’ on site.
- Identify the 4 phases of the safety maturity curve process.
- Discuss employee and employee rights and responsibilities at each step of the safety maturity curve.
- Explain the benefits and challenges of sustaining a zero-injury workplace safety culture in the workplace.
- Identify successful strategies for incorporating zero injury culture and maintaining scorecards to determine if it is successful.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
- Definition of a zero-injury workplace safety culture.
- The 4 phases of a safety maturity curve process toward zero injuries.
- Roles and responsibilities within the 4 phases of a safety maturity curve.
- Benefits and challenges of establishing a zero-injury workplace culture within your workplace.
- Strategy and scorecards to determine if you are doing it right.
Who Will Benefit:
- Plant Managers
- Plant Foremen
- Safety Committee Member
- Engineers
- Operations Managers
- Construction Foreman
- Occupational Safety Consultants
- HR Managers
- General Industry Business Owners
- Construction Business Owners
- Plant Supervisors
- Subcontractors
- Project Managers
- Safety Managers
