Your workplace safety culture is dramatically impacted by managements attitude towards its safety. If the ownership of a company, or the upper management of the organization is actively involved in the management of the workplace safety program the employees will understand the importance placed upon their safety. Likewise if they are not involved in workplace safety, the company will have a safety program that is affected by personal risk tolerances from every employee it hires.

Your bungee jumping, free fall skydiving employees, will have as great an opportunity to impact your safety record as your speed limit following, risk adverse employees.  Both sets of employees can be a great asset to an organization.  However both should and will take reflect the workplace safety culture fostered in the organization, which is demonstrated by the enforced policy concerning safety in the workplace.  The video below is a direct reflection of a lack of management concern, however the management in place would probably say that their employees were not using common sense.

Workplace Safety works with management teams to help create and foster a healthy safety culture in your organization.  Insurance providers value a healthy safety culture, and your insurance rates will reflect a healthy safety culture over time.   Like wise they will reflect a lax or unhealthy safety culture over time as well.  To see the difference in dollars, take a look at this previous posting about Workers Compensation Insurance Costs.

What areas do you need help with in improving your workplace safety culture?  Do you understand why your last years accidents occurred?   Do you know how to prevent them from occurring next year?   Is your organization experiencing more or fewer claims than other companies in your specialty?  Is  your organization trending in the right direction, or do you need help to get on the right track.  The assistance we provide will save you money in the long run.