Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
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Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
How do you keep health and safety high on the board agenda? Do you think that it currently has the profile it needs on the board and is there more that we can do as health and safety managers to ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
One of the key ways to keep it high on the board is put a cost to it. If you turn around and say that health and safety issues have cost us thousands of pounds this month the board will ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
I think it slightly depends on the industry and the organisation you're working for. If you've got an organisational culture where health and safety is integral to other business risks, then the pounds and shillings are not the key drivers ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
Communication is the key - good communication, factual communication and communication based on your observations of what is actually happening. It seems to me that we can't actually just implement something without having a factual base. If you go to ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
Communication is the key - good communication, factual communication and communication based on your observations of what is actually happening. It seems to me that we can't actually just implement something without having a factual base. If you go to ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
Communication is definitely part of the equation. If these board meetings had minutes which were disseminated to the workforce, who would then see exactly what their directors were talking about, then there would be more transparency and more trust of ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
Communication is definitely part of the equation. If these board meetings had minutes which were disseminated to the workforce, who would then see exactly what their directors were talking about, then there would be more transparency and more trust of ...
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
I invite two random people from anywhere in the organisation to sit in on our monthly safety committee, It certainly makes them more aware and over time everybody in the organisation has attended at least once
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
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Re: Keeping health and safety on the board agenda
Added: 16:06 29.02.2008
I think it slightly depends on the industry and the organisation you're working for. If you've got an organisational culture where health and safety is integral to other business risks, then the pounds and shillings are not the key drivers for influencing or keeping health and safety on the agenda. It's a question of how do we communicate the tangible benefits of health and safety to everyone concerned. The benefits will vary from industry to industry and from organisation to organisation. For me, keeping health and safety high on the board agendas isn't just about making sure that they consider the consequences and the outcomes, the accident frequency rates and negative measures of performance. We also have to ask ourselves 'what if's' - in terms of people reporting near misses or people reporting unsafe conditions. Have we investigated and taken the appropriate action for whatever has occurred. For me, it's a cultural issue. The stage that your organisation is at in terms of evolution of its culture will depend upon what you do to keep health and safety high on the agenda.
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