#Communications
Effective communication in HSE: risk visualization, remote notification tools, training via mobile messengers, and building transparent incident reporting. This section compiles the experience of enterprises moving from paper reports to a unified information field, where every employee is engaged in dialogue and promptly receives vital statistics.
Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes of Safety Culture
Implementation of an open incident and error reporting system, abandoning punitive measures. The practice includes shaping desired behavior, motivating by management's personal example, creating accessible communication channels (e.g., QR codes), and high-quality incident investigation to find root causes.
Severstal Safety Volunteers
Creating and developing a safety volunteer movement among workers at a large industrial enterprise. The program is based on voluntary participation, no quantitative KPIs, and non-financial motivation, including on-demand soft skills training and participation in leadership walkarounds.
Increasing Efficiency While Reducing Risks
Optimizing production processes at the intersection of customer and partner interactions to simultaneously improve economic efficiency and safety. Implementing a digital drilling management platform from physical to business processes, alongside unconventional engineering and logistical solutions (sliders, equipment weight distribution).
Strategy and Tactics
Integrating HSE and environmental goals into the overall business strategy of a food industry company with regular reporting to the management board. Implementing a management system based on ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 standards, using Yandex Forms to collect near-misses and safety tags, and linking employee career growth to HSE knowledge.
How to Implement Innovations with Minimal Resistance to Change?
The article is devoted to the company's experience in implementing innovations, automating processes, and digitizing documents without resistance from employees. Using the field of occupational health and safety as an example, the author explains how creating a cross-functional working group of middle managers and opinion leaders helped build unified standards and make the transition to new formats comfortable for the team.
Tools for Motivating Employees Towards Safe Work
Implementation of a comprehensive personnel motivation system for safe work, including the "Best Employee" and "Best Department" nominations, the "Safety Idea" rationalization proposal program, and the "Insight: Public Control" mobile app for recording risks. Using incognito mode at the start to overcome resistance, followed by a transition to material and non-material rewards for active participants.
Visual Communications in HSE: An Effective Tool for Reducing Occupational Risks
The article discusses the role of visual communications in the field of occupational health and safety as a tool for increasing safety and accessibly conveying rules to employees. The material describes the main formats of visual aids, a step-by-step algorithm for their development and implementation, as well as criteria for evaluating effectiveness and typical mistakes. Special attention is paid to the practice of using artificial intelligence in creating visual instructions and posters.
How to Help Workers Distinguish Hazards from Risks?
The article explains the difference between a hazard as a potential source of harm and a risk as the probability of an event occurring and its consequences. To help workers who confuse these concepts, the author offers two methods — explaining the differences using the example of a lion and discussing hazard and risk using a picture. These approaches can be used in any training and education sessions to identify clear examples even without the qualification of an occupational health and safety s...
HSE Mobile Application – HSE Herald
Development and implementation of a corporate mobile app for prompt risk identification at workplaces and personnel preparation for Rostechnadzor certification. The app includes safety control modules with offline capabilities, testing, access to the knowledge base, and company news.
HSE Training Videos: A Trendy Case Study or a Vital Employee Training Tool?
The article examines practical experience in using videos on occupational health and safety for visual and accessible training of employees at enterprises with different work schedules. The author analyzes in detail the advantages of the format, including the visualization of complex technological processes and the possibility of reducing the number of occupational accidents. The material also contains step-by-step recommendations for organizing the filming process, drafting a script lasting fro...
SIMOPS: Safety Management During Commissioning and Startup
Safety management during simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) at the commissioning stage. Includes the use of readiness checklists, LOTO systems, notification matrices, and visualization to minimize risks when builder and commissioning tasks overlap.
Visual Communication Tools in HSE: From Idea to Implementation
Implementation of a visual communication system at a high-security enterprise to increase employee awareness of HSE requirements. Development of memos, posters, and information boards using a cross-functional team and neural networks, leading to a reduction in micro-injuries and repeated violations.