12 Ways to Promote a Positive Safety Culture in Your Workplace

Promoting a positive safety culture can mean the difference between injury and zero harm, or even life and death. Taking steps to train and inform staff about health, safety and wellbeing is not only morally right, but is also necessary to meet legislative requirements. Utilising our health, safety and wellbeing guides as a constant visual display is a positive way to encourage health and safety in the workplace, and has the added benefit of interactive Augmented Reality (AR) components to engage staff during safety training sessions.

Here are 12 ways to promote a positive safety culture in your workplace, as featured on the health and safety handbook website:
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• Conduct a thorough workplace risk assessment.
  
• Thoroughly investigate all incidents and near misses, and examine the root cause.
• Communicate all changes in equipment and work processes to workers.
• Encourage workers to report health and safety concerns.
• Respond promptly to all health and safety issues you become aware of.
• Measure and support any changes required.
• Implement positive changes in values and attitudes towards workplace health and safety.
• Develop a safety leadership culture at all levels of the business and ensure all leaders of the business uphold the principles of a positive safety culture.
• Make health and safety of primary importance when inducting new workers into the workplace, e.g. include the health and safety policy in induction material.
• Make health and safety part of all workplace communications.
• Install a safety noticeboard to clearly communicate the latest safety information.
• Promote and attend safety training sessions.

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