#Employee engagement
Involving personnel in occupational health and industrial safety issues: leadership walk-arounds, behavioral audits, observation and suggestion systems, developing open dialogue on site. This section features the experience of companies moving from a paradigm of control and punishment to partnership, instilling conscious attitudes towards safety and active risk identification in workers.
Functional Coaching: What Is It and Why Is It a Breakthrough in HSE Training?
Functional coaching in industrial safety is an approach where training is conducted by internal company experts who face real risks on a daily basis. Training from colleagues in HSE and production departments provides down-to-earth practical knowledge, high trust, and honest feedback on how safety procedures work. With methodological and organizational support from the Corporate University, this approach helps to effectively develop a safety culture on the ground.
Internship. Part 5. Goals and Business Results. Or: Effective Communication Skills and Moving Away from the Administrative Behavioral Model
In the article, the author shares the experience of conducting internships for young managers at the workplace of the head of the occupational health and safety department. The material shows how practicing effective communication skills and moving away from an administrative behavioral model help build partnerships between occupational health and safety specialists, production staff, and contractors. Specific examples reveal the benefits of sharing good practices to increase employee engagement...
Making the Boring Interesting: Secrets of Engaging HSE Content
Industrial safety and occupational health and safety rules are often not well received by employees due to dry legalese, an abundance of documents, and endless prohibitions. This article examines how to change the approach to communications using visualization, short videos, infographics, and user-generated content (UGC). Employee engagement and presenting complex instructions in an understandable format help turn compliance with industrial safety and occupational health and safety rules into a...
How Can Social Rules of Conduct Create a Trusting Safety Atmosphere?
Development and implementation of 9 basic rules of conduct for HSE function specialists to form a trusting atmosphere and change the service's image. The practice includes joint development of rules by employees, immersive training, broadcasting expectations to production departments, and regular effectiveness evaluation through surveys and ratings.
HSE Specialist Internships in Production: A Path from Control to Trust
The article examines the practice of internships for occupational health, safety, and industrial safety specialists directly in production workshops, where for several days they work shoulder to shoulder with the team. Such immersion helps to see real production processes and problems from the inside, thanks to which the implemented measures cease to be formal. The practice allows breaking down stereotypes about the OHS&IS service, building an open dialogue with workers, and laying the foundatio...
Debunking the Top 5 Myths Preventing Injury-Free Work
The article examines misconceptions in occupational health and safety that cause organizations to struggle with the consequences of incidents instead of eliminating their systemic causes. The author demonstrates how to move from punitive control to a culture of openness, employee involvement, and collaborative work on processes. The material offers practical steps to create a system where risk prevention, dialogue, and continuous improvement play the main role.
Director's Day as an HSE Specialist: How a Leader Changed Safety Culture in 8 Hours a Week
Weekly personal participation of the top executive as an HSE specialist on the production site. The practice includes direct communication with workers, prompt resolution of household and production issues, implementation of QR codes for hazard reporting, and gamification through the "Safe Shop" competition.
Engagement Board for Effective Communication
Implementation of the "Engagement Board" tool to transform incident analysis into a lively dialogue with workers. The practice involves short 15-minute meetings in front of a magnetic whiteboard on the shop floor, where the line manager discusses incidents with the team through the lens of workspace, personal, and group factors, concluding with a collective choice of corrective action.
Developing an Internal Trainer Institute. How Can a Trainer Become a Heard Voice of Safety?
Creating and scaling an internal safety culture trainer institute at a large industrial enterprise. The practice includes multi-stage selection, trainer preparation, on-site internships, and the use of artificial intelligence (electronic badges) for objective assessment of training quality.
Finding an Individual Approach: Communication as a Pillar of Safety Culture
The article discusses how an occupational health and safety (HSE) specialist can find individual keys to communication with colleagues at various levels to solve work tasks. The author shares personal experience of taking nuances into account—from temperament and hobbies to the context of communication—and explains why it is important to maintain professional distance within the team. Building a strong and authoritative position as an HSE manager helps achieve set goals and company plans faster.
From Novice to Leader: A Successful Internship Story
Implementation of a mandatory five-stage internship for new managers at the workplace of the Head of the HSE Department. The program includes theoretical training, practical walkarounds to identify violation precursors, leadership walkarounds with top management, and public defense of results.
#GreenOffice: Caring for Nature Without Leaving Your Workspace
The article describes the practical experience of creating an eco-friendly and comfortable working environment using the company Gazstroyprom as an example. The author explains how the implementation of separate waste collection, resource conservation, electronic document management, and eco-education helps build useful eco-habits among employees. Caring for the environment in the workplace enhances the comfort and safety of personnel, directly contributing to productivity growth and the overall...