| Re-energise your Safety Observation System (S.O.S) |
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Safety observation systems are wonderful
tools that can be used quickly and
non-threateningly on a daily
basis to help people work safely and to build a
brilliant safety
culture.
Unfortunately, with time, their value is eroded by bad habits.
For example:
- Often the initial, training isn't done properly. It's too long
and drawn out, theoretical and sometimes not related to the workplace.
- People are asked to reveal names of people observed which defeats
the system.
- People take offence and retaliate verbally thus inhibiting
people from making more observations.
- It becomes a tit-for-tat exercise.
- They become ends in themselves, with fancy pie charts and statistics
we cannot use to fix things.
Let Profit Improvers help re-energise your SOS
by:
- Ensuring the SOS procedure is explained in plain English and
as concisely as possible.
- Giving short (1.5-hour) refresher workshops using a
behavioural approach (three short role plays) to stress the
helpful nature of SOS and how to make observations without insulting
others.
- A simplified SOS card.
- A simplified recording and reporting system
Let's cut the bureaucracy and focus on what really matters. Getting
people to keep aware, stop unsafe acts and report them so we can
prevent similar ones.
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