Safety Program Reviews: Prepare Now, Save Later

Eighty percent of workers are unable to complete safety and hazard reports. Safety starts at the top and at the individual, but flows through the entire organization. What’s your safety IQ?

Facts:

• Studies show that corporate policies and procedures for safety programs in the workplace are written above the literacy level of the average worker to comprehend and understand.
• Younger generation workers have a clear fear of reporting work-related mishaps and concerns, due to being the newbies, and not sure of what the result will be in their keeping their jobs.
• Twenty years ago, it was easier to tell what was or was not a work-related injury because most of the workplace injuries that led to disability were traumatic incidents.

The last quarter/first quarters of each year are hectic times for most U.S. businesses. They are closing out our current year results, and at the same time setting budgets and goals for the coming year. It’s been the same sequence for decades—“We always do it this way.”