Getting Safe Performance Motivating Safety and Health

Getting Safe Performance Motivating Safety and Health 

The task of motivating safe and heaithy work performance. 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL APPROACH 

As Stated earlier, anployers take little, if any, time to think alx ut motivating safety and health. This certainly seans like an oversight when data indicate that 85%-90% of accident causes are likely the result of unsafe behavior (acts). With this realization, it seems beyond logic that employers do not pay more attention to motivation in the workplace, especially related to occupational safety and health performance. 

Let me caution you that paying attention to developing motivational approaches to safety and health will be to no avail unless all of the other components discussed in this book are addressed first. 

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Chapter 5—Getting Safe Performance Motivating Safety and Health— This chapter looks at how motivational techniques can assist in getting safe performance and how such techniques can be used to motivate the entire workforce to foUow good safety and health practices. This is often the toughest area that employers attanpt to deal with. Many studies have indicated that between 85% and 90% of the accidents are caused by unsafe acts (how people behave related to safety and health). The human issues related to safety and health must be addressed using approaches that have been shown to work by other organizations but need to be tailored for a company s/employer s specific situation. 

GETTING SAFE PERFORMANCE MOTIVATING SAFETY AND HEALTH... 

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