The strategy "Delivering Key Safety Objectives" focuses on identifying safety issues, establishing methods to address them, and creating measurable KPIs to assess the achievements. One approach is to create a dedicated safety project, involving forming a specialized team with clearly defined roles aimed at enhancing safety practices. For example, the team conducts risk assessments and establishes communication channels for updating project progress.
Another strategy revolves around enhancing Safety Observation Reports (SORs) by training the team, standardizing templates, and incentivizing quality submissions. Additionally, cultivating a safety-aligned culture involves audits, developing safety value statements, and rewarding behaviours that prioritize safety.
The strategies
⛳️ Strategy 1: Create a dedicated safety project
- Establish a project team dedicated to safety initiatives
- Set clear goals and objectives for the safety project
- Develop a project timeline with specific milestones
- Allocate resources and budget for the safety project
- Define roles and responsibilities within the project team
- Conduct a risk assessment to identify potential hazards
- Establish communication channels for project updates
- Organise regular team meetings to track progress
- Develop and implement a safety management plan
- Evaluate project outcomes with established KPIs
⛳️ Strategy 2: Enhance Safety Observation Reports (SORs)
- Conduct training sessions for the workshop team on SOR importance
- Develop a standardised SOR template for consistency
- Incentivise the submission of high-quality SORs
- Review and provide feedback on SOR submissions regularly
- Create a monthly SOR quality and quantity dashboard
- Identify common safety issues from SORs and address them
- Share success stories of how SORs prevented incidents
- Appoint a safety champion to lead SOR initiatives
- Implement a peer review system for SOR feedback
- Set targets for the number and quality of SORs to be submitted monthly
⛳️ Strategy 3: Align culture with safety rules
- Conduct a culture audit to understand current perceptions
- Develop a safety values statement that aligns with company rules
- Integrate safety culture topics into team meetings
- Recognise and reward behaviours that exemplify safety values
- Provide leadership training focused on building a safety culture
- Launch a safety culture awareness campaign
- Encourage open dialogue about safety concerns and suggestions
- Regularly review and update safety policies and rules
- Survey employees about the alignment of culture and rules
- Monitor safety culture KPIs such as incident rates and employee feedback
Bringing accountability to your strategy
It's one thing to have a plan, it's another to stick to it. We hope that the examples above will help you get started with your own strategy, but we also know that it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day effort.
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