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: 16:15 29.02.2008
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 any board and you give them something that has to be cross-checked after you've given the answer, you certainly lose your status in the eyes of the managing director or whoever's in charge. All the rules and regulations laid down for our guidance have to be assessed in a practical way to see if they are actually maintaining health and safety at the right standard or if they are improving health and safety. If they are indeed proved to be improving health and safety you have to be able to demonstrate it by means that are available for review, just as much as the finance director has to prove his statements.
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