Motivating safety and health

A company can go to great extremes to motivate safety and health performance, but if attention to some fundamental characteristics of people is not made, the company will not be successful in developing a good motivational environment. Some of the fundamental principles that should be considered when working with people are... 

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... 

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. 

GETTING SAFE PERFORMANCE MOTIVATING SAFETY AND HEALTH... 

There are some keys to motivating safety and health. A listing of than is as follows ... 

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