Where is your business on the Health & Safety journey?
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Our workforce isn’t engaged with Health & Safety
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Employees are not encouraged to report near misses and incidents
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Where reports are made, information isn’t passed on, or isn’t understood
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We don’t have a dedicated safety person in the business
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Our safety policy isn’t written down and published
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We are not carrying out evidenced risk assessments
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We’re taking insufficient action to fully comply with the law
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- There is a tendency to think safety is ‘someone else’s (often the safety manager’s) job’
- We have poor reporting history on near misses, accidents, and plant damage and it seems that lessons are not being learned
- Safety reports that have been made are not stored in the right place and regularly go missing
- We’ve seen delays in product and production schedules as a result of safety issues
- We’re not carrying out periodic inspections
- The business is experiencing a high / growing number of Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) and we’ve had to reorganise shifts due to safety incidents in the last 6 months
- We’ve recently been served with an Improvement Notice or Prohibition Order
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- We’re putting in place clearly established roles and responsibilities for key people and job holders
- We still waste time and money trying to make corrective actions “stick”, and we regularly lose track of actions altogether
- Our managers have started to challenge unsafe behaviours
- We’ve lost out on tenders as we weren’t able to provide information regarding our safety performance and management
- Performance is being measured and we are now looking to learn from events when things do go wrong
- We’re getting our documentation in good shape
- We regularly undertake safety training with our workforce
- We still struggle to get everyone in the company engaged in safety
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- We’re accredited to ISO9001 and / or 45001
- We use benchmarking to compare performance across the business
- We’re working with our supply chain to encourage them to improve Health & Safety
- Our contractors adhere to the same safety standards as our employees
- We focus too much on the negative aspects of safety behaviours
- We have basic feedback mechanisms for Health & Safety matters e.g. suggestion boxes
- We could do more to support employees in reporting mental health events
- Lessons learned and good practices are shared internally and externally
- We’re not really using data to help drive safety initiatives and continuous improvement across the whole business
- Our investors and board want us to “up our game” with safety & wellbeing
