The Last Instalment of a Three-Part Series (Here are links to Part II and Part I).

During my travels I get to work with a wide variety of companies and many different safety and health teams/committees. As with anything in life, no two teams are the same in their makeup and abilities. However, I’ve found that the ones that seem to “click” and make the biggest difference in the company’s safety & health culture have these things in common. They:

  • are willing to try new things.
  • don’t’ complain much.
  • share the work.
  • are energetic.
  • laugh a lot and have fun.
  • make their presence known around the plant/company.
  • believe in what they are doing, and members don’t consider being on the team to be just a work chore.
  • like being creative and coming up with competitions, video ideas, themes, posters, etc.
  • get along, and team members communicate well with one another.
  • they have power and get plenty of support from company leaders.

Lately (and thankfully), I’ve noticed that more and more health and safety teams realize that finding and fixing hazards isn’t their only purpose. Instead, they are also coming up with cool ways to heighten employees’ awareness about their health, both mental and physical. (i.e. funding walking or weight loss competitions, creating rooms for meditating, holding hydration classes or having health fairs.) Successful teams are also creating inventive ways to encourage employees to take safety and health messages home.

So, if your safety and health team is still spending most of its time reviewing hazards and fretting over statistics–stop now! Change your agenda and use the tips I’ve given in this series to inject some energy into the member. And instill some new life into the team.

If you’d like me to work with your safety team to

give them new energy

show them how to sharpen their imaginations 

inspire them to come up new ways to create a vibrant safety culture

help them conduct more fun and productive safety team meetings

. . . then contact Richard Hawk today at 856.305.1469 or richard@makesafetyfun.com.