Building a Safe Work Culture

Safety as Part of Corporate Culture

Building a safe work culture is not just a set of rules, but a comprehensive approach integrated into the company's daily processes. The presentation details the experience of creating a system where safety is embedded at the stage of workplace design and the implementation of new technologies. The speaker emphasizes that every employee bears personal responsibility for compliance with requirements, and this responsibility is formed through conscious behavior, not just formal instructions.

Tools for Building a Safety Culture

For the desired behavioral model to become part of the culture, the company uses several key tools:

• Basic role training: An adapted induction training that eliminates an excess of dry legislative acts and focuses on specific rules and principles of working in the company.
• Mentorship program: The mentor acts as a carrier of "clean" technology and a guide to the safety culture, teaching not only professional skills but also the correct, safe execution of operations.
• "Zero Risk Assessment" system: An internal company development aimed at 100% identification and elimination of non-conformities with the active involvement of the employees themselves.
• Mobile application: A tool for prompt feedback, access to instructions, and recording hazardous situations in real time.

Multi-level Approach to Training

The speaker breaks down the training stages, starting from induction training and ending with a skill grade upgrade. On-the-job internship is divided into stages: studying primary and auxiliary equipment, the correct use of hand tools and raw materials, as well as interaction with other departments. Special attention is paid to the probationary period — it is not a formality, but a real test of knowledge, including HSE and electrical safety testing directly at the workplace.

The Role of Mentorship and Risk Assessment

Mentorship has been rethought: the mentor does not just pass on experience, but also presents the trainee to the certification commission, bearing responsibility for their future safe work. The "Zero Risk Assessment" system allows identifying hazards at every workplace through the joint work of managers, HSE specialists, and the employees themselves. This approach eliminates intermediate values — a non-conformity either exists and requires elimination, or it does not.

What you will learn from this webinar:

• How to adapt induction training so that it is understandable and useful to a new employee?
• What internship stages help form sustainable safe work skills?
• How to turn mentorship into an effective tool for broadcasting a safety culture?
• How the "Zero Risk Assessment" system works and why it is important to involve line personnel in it?
• How using a mobile app increases the speed of identifying and eliminating hazards?