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

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)
Bringing Safety & Health to the Bidding Process (November, 2016)
Improving Safety and Health for Small Contractors (November, 2016)
Creating a Level Playing Field for Federal Contracts (October, 2016)
Did OSHA Really Ban Incentive Programs? (September, 2016)
Chasing Zero (February, 2016)
Making Dollars and Sense of the Business Case for Safety (January, 2016)
LHSFNA Joins Push for Total Worker Health (January, 2015)
Orienting Workers to Safety on Your Jobsite (January, 2015)
Simple Steps Prevent Slips and Trips (September, 2014)
Be Prepared for Killer Cold (February, 2014)
Morning-After Mishaps Dent Savings of Daylight Saving Time (March, 2010)
Laborers' True Stories (Spring, 2007)
'True Stories' Stress Safety Message (March, 2007)

Safety Culture

Behavior-Based Safety vs. Safety Culture (January, 2013)
Giving Effective Toolbox Talks (January, 2014)
Book Review: Doubt is Their Product (June, 2008)
Creating a Level Playing Field for Federal Contracts (October, 2016)
New Posters from the LHSFNA! (July, 2010)
What’s Next for Construction Safety and Health? (February, 2017)
Did OSHA Really Ban Incentive Programs? (September, 2016)
Making Dollars and Sense of the Business Case for Safety (January, 2016)
New Safety Posters from LHSFNA (June, 2010)
Assessing and Improving Safety Climate on Your Jobsite (January, 2017)
LIUNA, the LHSFNA & Hess: Working Together to Improve Worksite Safety and Build Market Share (December, 2016)
ANSI Sets Standards for Construction (Fall, 2004)
Chasing Zero (February, 2016)
When Smart People Do Stupid Things (June, 2004)
Simple Steps Prevent Slips and Trips (September, 2014)
'True Stories' Stress Safety Message (March, 2007)
Many Safety Problems Rooted in Structure of Construction Industry (December, 2012)
Improving Safety and Health for Small Contractors (November, 2016)
Hospital Construction: Protect Patients from the Hazards (May, 2011)
Strong Construction Market Creates Need for Increased Safety Focus (February, 2017)