How to Create Safety Champions^SM

Creating Safety Champions^SM isn't always easy. Sometimes they come from the most unlikely candidates. Perhaps they were the ones who resisted the behavioral safety process in the beginning, or they adopted a “wait and see” attitude. Whatever their reasons, they have now becomes Champions of the process. But how did they get that way?

Quality Safety Edge has identified the key steps in creating such Safety Champions^SM:

• Education

First, you have to get their attention. Education helps them to understand that unsafe acts cause injuries and what their role is in preventing accidents;

• Involvement

Second, they must be actively involved in creating a proactive process to help prevent injuries.

• Support

Finally, when employees manage the process and coordinate management support, everyone wins through a safer workplace!

These steps are essential elements of the
Values-Based Safety^SM Process

Resistance, apathy, inertia, and lack of leadership are all symptomatic of an unsuccessful Behavioral Safety process. When Safety Champions^SM take the lead, the process continues far beyond implementation and initial roll-out phases. It becomes an integral component of the workplace.