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Organising Safety Week/Safety Events
Looking for ideas?
Why organise a Safety Event?
Reinforce safety message & raise employee
awareness
Increase buy in from staff including top level
management
Improve the status/profile of the safety team
Compliments existing health and safety processes
and procedures
Promotes a healthy lifestyle a benefit not only
to the employees but also the employer
Enables employees to take more responsibility for
their own health & safety
Gets employees talking to each other on issues of
work and safety
Enables learning through fun
Before the Event:
Secure management support and attendance
Agree appropriate budget
Plan thoroughly
Choose the right time - ensure it does not clash
with other major company business/visits
Choose the right venue
Choose good exhibitors education and
entertainment mix, audience participation
Have lots of freebies accessories, edibles,
raffle, quiz
Promote well in advance involve family, involve
media photos
Manage on the day
Carry out a thorough review afterwards include
questionnaires and interviews
A Few Ideas to Consider:
Organise a safety quiz related to typical site
safety rules/procedures, offer numerous small prizes, first aid kits, jackets,
home fire alarms, fire blankets etc.
Organise a safety morning or afternoon where
managers, supervisors and safety representatives visit work areas (not their
own) and positively comment on good safety performance and encourage positive
improvement. Also you could give tokens (redeemable against some small prize)
to relevant employees for all positive safety acts/conditions/systems of work
found during the visit.
If you have a workplace with a number of Safety
Representatives get all employees to nominate their Safety Representative of
the year
Get you PPE Suppliers to do presentation to
employees on choosing PPE, correct fitting etc.
Organise some fire extinguisher training
demonstration with your supplier
Run Safety Videos in company canteen
Run a safety suggestion scheme with suggestion
boxes paper pins etc. around the work areas & canteens
Art competition for employee children on a safety
topic
Stage major incident mock exercise with local
emergency services
Local tyre company check all tyres on cars in car
park for defective tyre, maybe even persuade them to give a discount to those
who need new tyres
Organise fitness/cholesterol/blood pressure
assessments for free
Health eating in canteen
Information stand on road safety
Information stand on water safety
Information stand on fire safety at home and at
work include opportunity to acquire smoke alarms, fire blankets, extinguisher
for use in the home - possibly company subsidised
Fall arrest/working at heights training and
awareness
Poster and slogan competition
Publish a safety news letter
Hazard spotting competition
Safety treasure hunt by locating safety
instruction and devices around the site
If you have any
suggestion or some event which worked well in your workplace and may be of
benefit to other, please e-mail us and we will include here
margaret@consultnet.ie
Links to Sources of Information & Campaign
Materials:
European Agency for Health &
Safety at Work
Campaign materials
Irish HSA free
Safety Downloads
UK HSE free leaflets
CEFNI Construction Safety
Toolbox
Talks
and
Site
Induction Programme
UK based MOHSG
Safety
Clip Art
Scottish Borders Safety
Forums Free Downloads
Free safety graphics from Artisan
International
Labor Organisation Picture Gallery with free safety clip art
Eagle Insurance company
Safety Meetings Online with a significant number of topics covered
The A to Z
Book of Bright Ideas for Promoting Safety and Health in Your Place of Work
US based OSHA e-tools
for safety training and multimedia
safety training resources
Safety Talks
& Safety Slogans
at US based Green Mango
US based Safety
talks
US based Safety
Quotes
and Slogans
US based National COSH
Tools for Trainers
Various safety forms, check sheets as free downloads
IAPA
Canada
Useful
Resources
from Aldrich including acid base concentrations and properties of common
solvents
US based EHS
Freeeware
online database of downloadable software
Tool Box talks
US based
US based OSHA Construction
Safety Training materials
Free
Training from US based OSHA
US online
safety
training resources US
based site with Construction safety talks
and photographs
US based
Safety Talks site not all free US based
Safety Tool Box Talks Canadian
Signs and Stickers
Canadian Construction Safety Downloads Australian
Hazardous Substances training kit Australian
Construction Safety Checkslists
Links
to Various Sources of Information on Safety
Links to
SHE Tools
Includes Toolbox Talks, Slogans,
Posters, Calculators, Checklists
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Safety Events