Three Sixty Safety

Safety Awareness in the Workplace

Safety awareness in the workplace is the first step to ensuring an injury free zone. Making sure that all employees are concerned with safety awareness can often be a difficult task. There are several things that employers can and should be doing to promote safety awareness in the workplace. It is every person’s job to work safely and efficiently but it is the owner, manager or safety leader’s job to make sure all employees understand what working safely means.

Safety awareness in the workplace starts at the top and makes it way down to all workers. If the boss isn’t using safety gear than why should the workers. This of course is not true but many people often say if he isn’t doing it than why should I do it the right way. The best way to teach safety awareness in the workplace is to practice safety awareness in the workplaces. Below is a list of things you can do to help boost safety awareness.

Promoting Safety Awareness in the Workplace

• Have monthly safety meetings. This is a great time to cover the safety protocols of the company. Also it gives people an opportunity to ask questions and get answers about their safety concerns.
• Hang safety related posters in common areas such as break rooms.
• Pick safety leaders that can check all equipment for malfunctions and also answer questions or show an unsafe worker how to do the job safely.
• Make sure any employee that uses a machine while working is trained to use it properly. They should also know what to do in an emergency.
• Show your employees that you are a safe worker. This will encourage them to work safe as well.