Safety Culture

Conscious or not, every company and every worksite has a safety culture.

It is an old but wise saying that Safety Starts at the Top. What is your company’s standard? What attitudes and outlooks do your supervisors convey? How intuitive and habitual is your workforce’s safety and health performance?

Transforming, developing and maintaining a powerful safety culture is a never-ending effort that yields bottom-line results.

The LHSFNA Occupational Safety and Health Division staff can help. Call for a consultation.

Safety Culture Resources

 

CPWR Safety Culture and Climate Page

• Foundations for Safety Leadership (FSL)
• Safety Climate Worksheets and S-CAT Rating Tool
• Safety Culture Workshop Report and Presentations
• Understanding Safety Culture and Safety Climate in Construction PDF
• Additional Research Reports and Products

 

Institute for Work & Health (Toronto)

• Organizational Performance Metric Questionnaire
• Organizational Performance Metric Follow-up Questions

 

Health and Safety Executive (UK)

• Safety Climate Tool
• HSE Leadership Check Tool

 

WorkCover Queensland (Australia)

Safety Climate and Safety Culture page

 

Other

Safety Trained Supervisor Program [Board of Certified Safety Professionals]

Design for Construction Safety website

A Roadmap to a Just Culture: Enhancing the Safety Environment [Global Aviation Information Network]

 

Close Call Reporting

• Roadworkers Safety – Silence is Consent [Video]
• Near Miss Reporting Systems [National Safety Council case study]
• Measures of Effect: Near Miss Reporting on Construction Site Injuries
• Aviation Safety Reporting System
• Near Miss Reporting in Nuclear Plants
• Close Call Reporting Systems for Firefighters
• National Near Miss Network for Firefighters
• Close Call Reporting System for Railroads

 

Safety Culture

Report Today’s Close Call, Prevent Tomorrow’s Accident (April, 2018)
Safety and Health Conversations: An Interview with Dr. Christine Branche (April, 2018)
Don’t Rely on Backup Alarms to Stop Backovers (March, 2018)
Number of Worker Deaths in Construction Continues to Rise (February, 2018)
The Top 10 LHSFNA Articles of 2017 (January, 2018)
Electrocutions Remain a Leading Cause of Death Among Laborers (December, 2017)
LHSFNA’s New Toolbox Talk Initiative Set to Help LIUNA Signatory Contractors (November, 2017)
Concussions: It's Not Just Football Players Who Are at Risk (September, 2017)
Getting Workers on Board with Safety Is a Team Effort (September, 2017)
Safety and Health Conversations: An Interview with Carl Heinlein (September, 2017)
Always Essential: Lockout/Tagout Programs (March, 2017)
Do You Have the Right Fire Extinguisher? (February, 2017)
Strong Construction Market Creates Need for Increased Safety Focus (February, 2017)
What’s Next for Construction Safety and Health? (February, 2017)
Assessing and Improving Safety Climate on Your Jobsite (January, 2017)
Getting to the Root of It (January, 2017)
LIUNA, the LHSFNA & Hess: Working Together to Improve Worksite Safety and Build Market Share (December, 2016)
Improving Safety and Health for Small Contractors (November, 2016)
Bringing Safety & Health to the Bidding Process (November, 2016)
Laborers' True Stories (Spring, 2007)

Safety Culture

Giving Effective Toolbox Talks (January, 2014)
Behavior-Based Safety vs. Safety Culture (January, 2013)
Book Review: Doubt is Their Product (June, 2008)
Electrocutions Remain a Leading Cause of Death Among Laborers (December, 2017)
New Posters from the LHSFNA! (July, 2010)
Don’t Rely on Backup Alarms to Stop Backovers (March, 2018)
Did OSHA Really Ban Incentive Programs? (September, 2016)
Number of Worker Deaths in Construction Continues to Rise (February, 2018)
What’s Next for Construction Safety and Health? (February, 2017)
Making Dollars and Sense of the Business Case for Safety (January, 2016)
Creating a Level Playing Field for Federal Contracts (October, 2016)
The Top 10 LHSFNA Articles of 2017 (January, 2018)
New Safety Posters from LHSFNA (June, 2010)
Getting Workers on Board with Safety Is a Team Effort (September, 2017)
Chasing Zero (February, 2016)
ANSI Sets Standards for Construction (Fall, 2004)
Many Safety Problems Rooted in Structure of Construction Industry (December, 2012)
Simple Steps Prevent Slips and Trips (September, 2014)
When Smart People Do Stupid Things (June, 2004)
'True Stories' Stress Safety Message (March, 2007)