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4 Must-Dos For Better Safety Meetings

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4 Must-Dos For Better Safety Meetings

If you skip the idea that safety meetings are part of your overall safety marketing strategy, you will struggle to get your employees to dig into safety on a deep, personal level. Until the employee is bought in, you will go to great lengths to monitor your employees for compliance. If you want to chase the compliance model, don't miss a day of enforcement or someone will be hurt.

 

But when they buy-in to safety, the need for policing disappears. They become a self-policing, engaged group of workers. The safety meeting is the best large-scale strategy to impact many minds at once. Here are four strategies that can help revolutionize your safety meetings right away:-

 

 

  • Recognize Workplace Risks

 

 

The key to risk mitigation begins with understanding what can cause a potential hazard or incident. Ask each employee to look around their work area and identify anything that could endanger their safety. In many cases, non-threatening items can be problematic in the right scenario. Knowing the harm certain things can potentially cause can help you avoid these situations.

 

 

  • Keep It Simple. One Idea At A Time - 

 

 

Safety meetings are critical to the ongoing training of your employees about workplace health & safety training. But you can't just stick something old into your safety briefing and think, "Well, we had our meeting." It's not about filling a time window. It's about making sure you're driving a new idea and call-to-action. Your organization needs to be better informed, not just better.

 

 

  • Plan Meetings Ahead of Time-

 

 

Develop agendas a few days in advance and distribute them so committee members can prepare. Part of the agenda should include setting a deadline for the entire meeting as well as for each item on the agenda. Monitor how meetings are complying with these limits. Hawk also prefers that one person act as the committee's "conscience".

 

 

  • Change The Perception Of Safety Meetings - 

 

 

You might think that people will come to the safety meeting willing to learn, but they are not. You are being forced to be there. And because they couldn't find a way to skip the meeting altogether, they are prepared for boredom. Security meetings aren't fun. You are not exciting. If that were the case, there would be a wave of lobbying for more security meetings - and to make them longer.

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