Research has found that the majority of workers have seen their workmates engage in risky safety behaviour.
How to Initiate a Difficult Safety Conversation with your Staff
8 Tips on Designing Attention-Getting Workplace Safety Signs
When it comes to warnings about potential dangers or giving people an important instruction on site, you have to rely on labels and signs to communicate. A sign's message can be communicated effectively with a picture that can be understood across all ages and languages (see Why Using Visuals in your Communication is so Important for more information on why visuals work so well).
8 Tips to Improve Safety Induction Training
According to the the research paper "Relative Effectiveness of Worker Safety and Health Training Methods" from the American Journal of Public Health in February 2006, engaging safety training is three times more effective than the least engaging methods in promoting knowledge and skill acquisition. In addition, the most engaging methods of safety training are, on average, most effective in reducing negative outcomes such as accidents.
7 Steps to Writing your Company's Safety Message
If you're in charge of writing the next safety message or safety slogan for your company's safety initiatives, you know that you've got a challenge ahead of you. After all, most safety slogans become invisible and ineffective pretty quickly.
How to sell Safety Benefits to Senior Management
When it comes to safety, no company wants to see staff hurt or property damaged.
Seven Factors Behind Creating a High-Performance Business Team
In the book, Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson, she discusses a fascinating research project about what makes businesses successful.
How to Reward Staff for Better Safety Performance
Many safety professionals believe they need to reward staff to get them to behave safely.
6 Ways to use the whole brain in Workplace Training
In the book, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, he compares both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and discussed that you need to include both hemispheres when creating anything new.
How Finding Workplace Safety Bright Spots Brings Success in Business
Since we were little, the majority of us have been taught to look out for what is going wrong and fix the problem. This can be for anything from getting an "E" at school to having friendship issues.
Six Secret Principles to an Effective Workplace Safety Campaign
In the brilliant book, Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath, they discussed a 1999 research project by a team of Israeli researchers. In this study, 200 award winning ads were classified into six templates.
They then classified 200 unsuccessful ads and found that only 2% could be classified into the six templates.
But wait there's more...
The researchers brought in three groups of novices and got them to create three ads for three different products. The first group received information on the products and no ad design training. The second group was trained for two hours by a creativity instructor, while the third group was trained for two hours on the six templates.
For all groups, the best best ads were selected by a creative director and tested with consumers.