Thursday, August 23, 2018

Facts To Have On Safety Culture Assessments

By Jason Hughes


For a company to have the best safety production, it ought to prioritize on its safety culture and improve on it where need be. There may be several factors that influence a culture of a company such as leadership, supervisory styles, and welfare provisions among others. Conducting a Safety Culture Assessments allows an institution to have best practices in terms of welfare and improve on its general performance.

For an entity to sustain its performance, a checkup of their common practices, workflow processes, attitudes and behaviors ought to be assessed. In such a procedure, the first step often involves reviewing of the documentations, programs and policies that the company follows which can be done by professionals. This allows them to familiarize with the current situation and get a good grip of the work order process.

The success of this activity will be achieved if all the members of company are made aware of such exercise. It is mandatory to have all personnel in the know of presence of the assessors and their main agenda in the company. This will allow the personnel to feel involved and also provide the assessors with the information they need. They should not take it as a fault finding activity.

Besides familiarizing with what is provided in the documents and books, it also involves a location walk. A site visit is often done to allow the professionals to have a view of the exact trend that is in the particular workplace. It also gives them an overview of the basic welfare issues, logistics as well as compare what is provided in the documentation with what is on the ground.

The assessors should have a meeting with the leadership of organization which will involve discussions about the work processes, their current state of safety culture and what they feel should be done about it. This will help them to identify issues that need to be straightened out and additional practices in order to achieve welfare excellence. This should however have no effect on the daily operations of the company.

The team will further conduct individual interviews and focus group discussions. Focus group discussions should comprise of leaders from each work levels and stages so as to have proper representations of all working personnel. Individual interviews may involve further discussions with the leadership personnel on site so as to discuss on definitions of safety, communication excellence and probe further understanding of the information the team has already collected.

After holding discussions and interviews, a close up meeting with the personnel ought to be conducted. This allows the assessors to discuss their preliminary findings after conducting their surveys and also address the current operational issues that are indeed affecting well-being excellence in the institution. This exercise results into a report which should entail actionable steps for the institution to take in order to bring transformation.

The assessment can be successful if it is carried out by a professional working team. If a company is interested in such an audit, it should take its time in selecting the best team that is locally present and is licensed. Prior selection of a qualified team will reduce time wastage and save on money spent.




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