![]() ![]() His team’s safety moments raise awareness of risks and point out ways to prevent injury but fail to make a personal connection to him, or his team members. It suddenly occurred to him that all this time, he’s been covering topics that are relevant to the day’s work, and are helpful, but they are not personal in any way. “Guys, it’s real hot out there today, so make sure you drink plenty of water and stay hydrated.” “We’ve had two hand injuries in the past month, so we really need to wear the proper gloves and use machine guarding at all times.” “We’re working at heights today, so make sure we all wear our fall prevention equipment and tie off properly.” As I listened to some of his examples, I heard all of the typical things that I would expect: In our workshop earlier that day, we had discussed the importance of being people-focused and engaging employees on a personal level.Īfter reflecting on that, he shared with me that although his team does safety moments every day, they are hardly ever “personal.” He and his team lead always cover a safety topic that is relevant to the work they are doing that day and the associated hazards. Recently, while conducting a safety leadership coaching session with a supervisor at a manufacturing plant, he mentioned that his team does daily safety moments. While it’s always good to focus on safety each day, I wonder how effective and impactful our typical safety moments are. I’ve heard people do safety moments in many different ways, with varying degrees of relevance to the actual work environment, but they all bring us back to the importance of safety in some way. Town hall meetings will be taking place in each Segment shortly to provide further information and guidance.Does your company do safety moments? If so, what do you consider to be an effective safety moment? It’s an interesting question, and one that I took a bit for granted until recently. ![]() Let’s work safe and live safe – and reduce the number of accidents at the workplace to zero! concluded Phil. I hope that implementing safety moments will make us all more aware of health and safety issues, and improve our ability to put safety first. We have also identified hazards and taken steps to minimize risks, but it is ultimately our own responsibility to look after our health and safety, understanding the hazards at our workplace, taking up concerns with our leaders, reading the safe work procedures and taking all necessary precautions. Kongsberg Automotive has a Health and Safety policy and guidelines to help employees look after their health and safety. The intention with Safety Moments, is to bring focus to safety issues in a brief and non-threatening way,” he added. We need everyone everywhere to think about safety in everything they do and everywhere they go, We need to increase the level of health and safety awareness in KA, and ‘Safety Moments’ is one way of doing that. All participants take turns to kick-off the safety moment – not just the leader – but the leader is responsible for making sure that a safety moment is held at every opportunity. Typically one person would start the meeting with a comment about a safety topic he or she has thought about or been concerned with in some way, and the rest of the group discuss. The idea with Safety Moments is that people start every meeting or gathering – shift, for example, or management meeting - with a brief safety moment (work related or otherwise) discussion. In an effort to promote a culture for safety awareness in Kongsberg Automotive plants throughout the world, we are launching “ Safety Moments”. We need to THINK safety, be careful and be aware. We need to improve our safety culture, so that we all make safety our first priority in all work carried out. So far this year there have been 17 accidents, and that’s 17 too many! We have had far too many accidents that could have been prevented. Kongsberg Automotive is committed to putting the safety of employees first which means that YOU have to commit to putting safety first! The first initiative to ensure we “Put Safety First” will be to introduce “Safety Moments” into our business, a common practice already used successfully in the Oil and Gas industry.
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