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Developing Safety Cultures
Vincent has successfully introduced, ● Poster campaigns and training.
developed and maintained strong “can
do” safety culture even where the ● Introduced effective monitoring
companies workforce had an initial poor arrangements, introducing healthy
health and safety culture. competition between departments
and workplaces. This produces
He improved culture, efficiencies and good worker buy-in.
worker and management relationships.
● Communicated all policies and
This was achieved by successfully: procedures to encourage workers
to take responsibility.
● Encouraging senior managers to
engage with their workers to build ● Introduce committee meetings to
strong relationships with them and set targets and objectives.
ensure any complaints were dealt
with quickly and efficiently. ● Provide follow up support and
coaching to enable teams to meet
● Every level of management to the agreed targets and objectives.
show support to cultural change by
setting high personal standards. ● Encouraged companies to work
towards ISO standards and
external Health and Safety Awards.
● Recognising individual workers
performance and introduce worker
incentive schemes.
22 ● Company news letter promoting
the benefits of good safety.
