2025: Choosing Safety
Choosing Safety in 2025.
You have the freedom and power to choose safety in 2025. Your company can provide all the training and fully live up to their commitment to safety under the OSH Act of 1970, but what are you doing when no one is looking? Have a discussion with yourself:
“What am I choosing when no one is looking? I have the freedom and power to choose to work safely. I can make a decision and commitment this year—to myself, family, friends, and coworkers—that I will work safely in 2025. This includes wearing proper Personal Protective Equipment and performing the job according to safe working procedures. I can participate and contribute to safety discussions with coworkers. I have the ability and authority to stop unsafe work and solve hazards on my jobsite.”
The year is just starting, so what will you choose to accomplish in 2025? Have a Safe 2025!
SAFE-T FAST
Safety Awareness Foundational Excellence Training is what SAFE-T FAST, LLC is all about. Imagine you are the person in the story below using the FAST method.
First, I make a goal to work safely. I do this by visualizing going home in the same way I came to work. I greet my family at the end of the day and they are happy to see me. I have no cuts that require a doctor to look at. I have all my fingers and toes.
Next, I Act on my goal. I wear my Personal Protective Equipment, use proper lifting techniques, and eliminate hazards when I see them. I even clean up the coffee spill in the breakroom and close the cabinet doors so my coworkers don’t get hurt.
As I go through my day, I Share safety with others. I see my coworkers doing something safely, and I tell them I notice them working safely. I see Wally not wearing a seatbelt on a forklift, and I stop him when safe to do so. I tell him my concerns about his safety, focus on the possible consequences, and get him to agree to wear the seatbelt moving forward. I have a safety discussion with him about other safety issues in the plant.
After talking with Wally and my other coworkers, I Thank them for talking with me about safety.
FAST is a method used in the SAFE-T For Us workbooks that is designed to help you improve safety performance at your worksite. SAFE-T FAST, LLC can help with improving safety performance with services ranging from providing workbooks and slides to training your entire team and analyzing their performance over time.
Safety TIPS
Safety TIPS
Safety TIPS are Timely to Increase Performance in Safety
Spend a few minutes at the start of your team meeting to discuss Safety.
This demonstrates safety leadership and fosters safety performance improvement in your team.
Make your Safety TIPS timely in duration and timely to the hazards that your team is facing.
In late spring or summer, for instance, discuss Water, Rest, and Shade as temperatures are warming up. Spend a few minutes presenting and a few minutes discussing ways to live out Water, Rest and Shade.
Notice a trend in near misses or close calls? Discuss that as one of your Safety TIPS.
Rotate responsibility of delivering Safety TIPS to keep the team engaged.
When someone has to lead the discussion, they’ll be much more likely to not only remember it, but also live it out.