Rabu, 22 Agustus 2018

Facts To Have On Safety Culture Assessments

By Jason Hughes


Institutions that have a trend of focusing on achieving safety excellence basically allows them to put Environmental health and safety into perspective. The safety performance of a company is directly linked to its welfare culture which is often influenced by psychological, behavioral and situational management design of the company. This therefore brings out the need for Safety Culture Assessments in order to bring out best practices in welfare.

Institutions that are in dire need of a proper working safety culture ought to involve professionals in this activity. Upon finding one, they will be involved in reviewing of documentation, policies and programs in the first step. This provides further insight of work processes and the welfare provisions that the entity has in its daily work. It also allows the assessors to take note of the available and missing documentation.

Safety audits is a task that involves the entire working personnel in the institution. This brings out the need to alert all workers about the task and why it is necessary that they all cooperate with the professionals. This should also allow the individuals to feel free and carry on their daily work keeping in mind that the task is meant to improve on their safety culture.

A site visit is also part of the activities in welfare assessments. This involves the auditors taking time to visit the location with guidance from a personnel in the company. Site visits opens the assessors to more understanding of workflow as indicated in the documents they had reviewed. It also allows them to take note of precise status of the site and its well-being provisions as indicated in the documents.

The assessors should have a meeting with the leadership of organization which will involve discussions about the work processes, their current state of safety culture and what they feel should be done about it. This will help them to identify issues that need to be straightened out and additional practices in order to achieve welfare excellence. This should however have no effect on the daily operations of the company.

The next step involves a conduction of interviews and focus group discussions. This allows the assessor to dig in more and be able to understand the welfare perception of the individuals working in the company. This activity focuses on the definition of safety, history in successes and failures of some cultures, knowledge support among others. Focus group discussions should involve a representative of all levels of work involved in the organization for better results.

After holding discussions and interviews, a close up meeting with the personnel ought to be conducted. This allows the assessors to discuss their preliminary findings after conducting their surveys and also address the current operational issues that are indeed affecting well-being excellence in the institution. This exercise results into a report which should entail actionable steps for the institution to take in order to bring transformation.

The assessment can be successful if it is carried out by a professional working team. If a company is interested in such an audit, it should take its time in selecting the best team that is locally present and is licensed. Prior selection of a qualified team will reduce time wastage and save on money spent.




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