Ways to get employees involved in health and safety plans is a very important topic every organization must have a knowledge of.
Various Organizations with a strong worker safety culture often have a high level of employee involvement in both the development and implementation of their safe work practices. Because of this, it is very important to involve employees in the development of every safety plan which will bring about the growth and safety improvement of the company.
In a safe and healthy working environment employee have a stake in the program’s success as safety and health is everyone’s responsibility and duty. Actively encourage employee involvement and hold employees accountable.
Below are ways the individual organizations can keep their workers involved in their safety plans.
1. Establish an active Workplace Committee.
One of the most functional ways to ensure every employee in the organization is carried along with a safety plan is by having a committee set up for health and safety improvement. It is then the duty of the committee to ensure each is duly informed at every time of what needs to be done. Remember employees who are the right information at the tips of their fingers are likely to partake and get involved in every plan for safety programs organized by the company.
2. Daily inspection should be part of the employee’s job.
For every department, the first thing, every employee should do is to inspect their area of assignment for any safety issues, this helps to make a report of the situations and also help the employee to be aware of what should be included in the safety plan by the committee. This also helps the Employees stay informed about safety hazards and injury.
3. Ensure Safe performance evaluation.
For employees to be involved in a safety plan, the organization needs to ensure safe performance evaluation is part of the routine and work practice that will be taught and analyzed to the employees. This should also include setting out punishment and penalties out for employees whose attitude towards work may incur harm to themselves or their fellow workers.
4. Incur Value on Employees.
A part of our last article talked about how companies can boost safety by appreciating their workers, while other time the organization just need to place value on ideas and feedbacks that their employees get to them. By putting a value on employee’s ideas and feedback, you are informing them that their safety is also very important to the organization and once they noticed this, it will become easier to be involved in safety training and routine as a matter of protection and personal safety training for themselves.
5. Always support a culture of safety.
Every organization has its safety routine and how they want it to be followed in order to achieve the goals that the company is established for. Notwithstanding, every organization must be flexible enough to learn for every safety culture their employees may have to offer at every time. This helps individual employees to learn more and be more involved in every safety training.
In as much as all these steps above will help keep the employees involved in health and safety plans, organizations should also ensure they run an environment that fosters love, trust, appreciation, and creativity. This general development will help to keep everyone in touch with each other at all times.
