
Now that you have worked out your topic for your next routine workplace safety campaign, it's time to sit down and start writing. Here are some tips that have been...
You can have the best safety system in the world, but if you are not communicating it correctly, your organisation is at risk.
Tell-tale signs of poor safety communication include safety is seen as boring and staff tune out. As well as employees having no clear or consistent understanding of what is required from a safety perspective.
It can also mean that safety communication gets stuck either through one department or throughout one area of leadership (for example: supervisors refuse to pass on safety information).
Very few safety professionals have been taught how to convert compliance information into easy to understand and engaging content. In other words, how to make safety information matter to the average employee.
It's no longer enough for a safety practitioner to just understand safety compliance rules. It's now becoming increasingly important to be able to influence others, so that they understand how safety processes relate in their day to day job.
That's why it's so vital to ensure that all company safety communication is written and discussed in a way that enables everyone to work to a common standard.
Some important tips to include in all of your safety communication are:
Safety communication is a continual process that never stops. Constantly practise and improve your safety communication skills to ensure high quality safety leadership. If you find that your communication isn't working, try a new method to get attention or to help people take action.
This is a small summary selection of some of the tips from the book, Transform Your Safety Communication. This book provides safety professionals with lots of different techniques to use at their workplace. This highly acclaimed book provides 5 easy to use templates and frameworks to quickly update your safety communication.
Gone are the days when safety professionals could act as gruff policemen and just command compliance. Organisational culture has changed to that of collaboration, in which employees want to be treated with respect when it comes to being told to work safely.
One of the mantras I teach my SELLSAFE Communication system students, is that communication is about feedback, not failure. It's about getting everyone to work together on safety, rather than criticising those undertaking safety activities incorrectly. Over the long-term organisations have a better success rate at safety compliance if employees have their input into safety matters, rather than being told to comply.
Which of these communication tips can you apply to your organisation?
Now that you have worked out your topic for your next routine workplace safety campaign, it's time to sit down and start writing. Here are some tips that have been...
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