Building a Strong Safety Culture
Building a Strong Safety Culture
The 5 C’s of Workplace Safety
By Tim Sheehan, Chris Naylor and the OSHA+ Environmental Compliance Systems (OECS*) Team
Have you been designated “safety leader” for your company? Or are you a senior manager seeking a way to significantly improve your company’s safety record? Perhaps your company is reeling from a recent safety disaster, and you’re looking for a way to make sure something similar never happens again. In that case, we have a workplace safety book for you.
Tim Sheehan and Chris Naylor are proud owners of OSHA+ Environmental Compliance Systems – OECS*. Working with their staff of passionate and highly experienced safety professionals, they’ve formulated a simple safety framework to produce this workplace safety book called The 5 C’s of Workplace Safety. This framework has been used successfully to help hundreds of their clients discover a way to think about, engage with and improve the safety of their companies.
In this book on safety culture, you won’t find dry regulations and procedures. Instead, you’ll find stories and insights OECS* has collected over the years. The book demonstrates safety principles and the repercussions of not planning and working toward better safety in every aspect of an operation. That’s followed by clear guidance on how to improve safety in your company using the 5 C’s of Workplace Safety.
The OECS* mission is to inspire strong safety cultures that keep employees returning home safe. The 5 C’s of Safety will offer insight and proven principles to help you do just that!
*OECS is a part of the USC family.
Book Resources
In the book, Building a Strong Safety Culture – the 5 C’s of Workplace Safety, OECS* offers to share resources and more information pertinent to certain chapters. Below are valuable links to learn more so that in addition to the book, you have additional workplace safety resources at your disposal.
How to Build a Strong Safety Culture in the Workplace
The OECS* mission is “To inspire strong safety cultures.” After almost 30 years in the safety business, we’ve learned that leadership drives culture and culture drives safety. A strong safety culture can positively impact everything – productivity, recruitment, retention, morale, customer satisfaction – and the bottom line.
We’ve witnessed this storyline playing out time and time again, across hundreds of clients in Minnesota and the surrounding states, in both manufacturing and construction: Without committed, engaged leadership, the prospects of building and maintaining a strong safety culture are slim, with opportunity to capture the benefits gone.
BUILDING A STRONG SAFETY CULTURE
A strong safety culture is shared throughout the company, from the CEO through the entire organization. Our approach to building a strong safety culture in the workplace includes utilizing key concepts from the book, Safety 24/7, by Greg Anderson. Our clients love how his approach simplifies the concepts you’ll need to bring your safety culture to the next level, including advice on:
- Defining safety culture and how you can shape it in your company
- Gaining management buy-in to be leaders in safety culture development
- Identifying and addressing the common barriers of a safety culture that are difficult to overcome
- Moving from compliance to a core value and belief in safety culture
Help accelerate your company’s commitment to safety. It’s our mission to inspire. Let’s talk more about how we can help your company.
*OECS is a part of the USC family.
