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

Preparing Your Employees for an Active Shooter Situation (June, 2018)
Fundamentals of Workplace First Aid (June, 2018)
Limiting Risk from Combustible Dust on the Job (June, 2018)
Protect Your Hearing, Protect Your Heart (May, 2018)
How Labor Shortages Can Put Worker Safety at Risk (May, 2018)
Safety and Health Conversations: An Interview with Dr. Christine Branche – Part Two (May, 2018)
Spring Brings Additional Hazards, But the LHSFNA Is Ready to Help (May, 2018)
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)
Assessing and Improving Safety Climate on Your Jobsite (January, 2017)

Safety Culture

Giving Effective Toolbox Talks (January, 2014)
Behavior-Based Safety vs. Safety Culture (January, 2013)
Book Review: Doubt is Their Product (June, 2008)
Protect Your Hearing, Protect Your Heart (May, 2018)
Electrocutions Remain a Leading Cause of Death Among Laborers (December, 2017)
Did OSHA Really Ban Incentive Programs? (September, 2016)
New Posters from the LHSFNA! (July, 2010)
How Labor Shortages Can Put Worker Safety at Risk (May, 2018)
Report Today’s Close Call, Prevent Tomorrow’s Accident (April, 2018)
What’s Next for Construction Safety and Health? (February, 2017)
Number of Worker Deaths in Construction Continues to Rise (February, 2018)
Making Dollars and Sense of the Business Case for Safety (January, 2016)
Don’t Rely on Backup Alarms to Stop Backovers (March, 2018)
Spring Brings Additional Hazards, But the LHSFNA Is Ready to Help (May, 2018)
Creating a Level Playing Field for Federal Contracts (October, 2016)
New Safety Posters from LHSFNA (June, 2010)
The Top 10 LHSFNA Articles of 2017 (January, 2018)
Chasing Zero (February, 2016)
Getting Workers on Board with Safety Is a Team Effort (September, 2017)
Many Safety Problems Rooted in Structure of Construction Industry (December, 2012)