Discover effective strategies for ensuring inclusive and accessible emergency response. Learn how involving individuals with disabilities, implementing accessible communications and facilities, ensuring continuity of support services, and providing training for responders contribute to a more inclusive emergency response system.
Discover the crucial role of employee engagement in cultivating a culture of safety in the workplace. Learn how engaged employees contribute to proactive safety initiatives and explore strategies to enhance employee engagement for a safer work environment.
Leadership plays an instrumental role in cultivating a safety culture within an organization, laying the groundwork for effective Work Health and Safety (WHS) risk management. Leaders shape the safety culture by setting clear expectations, demonstrating safe behaviors, promoting open communication, providing regular training, investing in safety resources, and conducting routine safety audits. A safety culture means that everyone in the organization feels responsible for safety, leading to proactive risk management. Leadership must also integrate WHS risk management into all business processes, not treating it as a secondary aspect. This commitment promotes a holistic approach to safety, driving cultural change and fostering a more productive and safer work environment.
Training is important. We should all make it a priority. We should be teaching and not preaching as supervisors and managers and all of us can be agents of change in our own businesses.
The emergency plan is your method of controlling a situation that has deteriorated due to the failure of other risk controls to prevent an emergency (prevent is better than cure).
Safety audits and inspections have been shown to reduce the number of accidents, which benefits business and their workers. It is better to be proactive with safety rather than waiting for an accident to happen.
It must be clearly understood that all workers have the authority, as well as duty, to take immediate action in the interest of safety.
This is a fundamental part of the safe person concept.
Being in a burning house, or attempting to escape one, you will be breathing in several toxic gases…with devastating long and short-term effects.
A robust safety management system should represent a balance of the three approaches, as each by itself will yield poor safety results, used together they provide a potent tool to assure workplace safety.
A foundation of good risk management is good decision making. Many, if not all, accident investigations reveal safety failures due to poor decisions making around risk
