#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.
How to Engage an Employee in Dialogue and Achieve Results?
The article examines the "Leader's Norms" practice applied at Metalloinvest to establish a constructive dialogue on safety with employees during line walks. The author shares recommendations on preparing for a conversation on the shop floor, adhering to the 20/80 rule, and asking open-ended questions that require detailed answers. The material explains how a manager can act as a mentor, motivate personnel, and change attitudes toward safety through communication and observation.
Safety Conversations
Traditional regulations and instructions on industrial safety are losing the competition for employees' attention to modern social networks and video platforms. The article examines how to revise HSE communication formats using short videos, memorable checklists, and engaging employees themselves as safety ambassadors. The author explains how to strike a balance between useful and entertaining content to make information easily accessible and increase colleagues' trust.
How to Teach Safety Culture Using Standard Training Methods?
The implementation of new occupational health and safety practices occurs most effectively not through separate courses, which are perceived by employees as an additional burden, but through their integration into familiar training programs. Using the example of the company Metalloinvest, the article examines the inclusion of risk-based approach tools and hazard assessment into the standard training of workers and managers. Such an approach helps to make a proactive safety culture an integral pa...
From Chaos to Calm: How to Organize a Manager's Work in HSE
Implementation of an HSE manager work standard focusing on line walkdowns. The tool aims to transition from reactive control to a systemic search for improvements through employee dialogue and constructive feedback.
Targeted Briefing: Moving Beyond Formality
The article examines the experience of Metalloinvest in the phased integration of the pre-job risk discussion (PJRD) tool with targeted safety briefing. Discussing hazards directly at the work site in a dialogue mode made it possible to improve the quality of briefings and move away from a merely formal signature in the logbook. Such an approach enables an objective assessment of workers' level of risk understanding and prompt adjustment of their knowledge.
What Subtleties Hide Behind "Stop Unsafe Work"
Implementation of the "Stop Unsafe Work" tool involving line personnel in identifying hidden risks. The practice includes using a mobile app to record risks, mandatory worker participation in the corrective measures commission, and a reward system for using the tool without applying sanctions.
Strolling Down Pedestrian Street, Turning onto Bakery Street
The article tells about the family festival "Safe City", held for the first time in Zarechny on the initiative of JSC Concern Rosenergoatom, the Beloyarsk NPP, and the city administration. At themed locations, festival guests learn first aid skills, safe driving, firefighting, eco-habits, and rules of conduct in extreme situations. Practicing practical algorithms at workshops helps children and their parents gain personal experience and form a conscious model of safe behavior in everyday life an...
Implementation of a Mobile Complex for Assessing and Developing the HSE Management System at Russian Railways (RZD)
Implementation of mobile training complexes based on railway cars to conduct active forms of occupational safety training in a territorially distributed company. The practice includes training internal moderators, using VR simulators, and risk-oriented route planning to reach remote divisions.
How to Engage in Safety? Experience of Rosenergoatom JSC
A comprehensive approach to engaging employees' family members and local residents in safety culture. The practice includes children's creative contests, educational materials, youth projects, city safety festivals, and online marathons.
Forget Impossible: Fix
The article examines the problem of reduced control in production, where the habit of working with minor deviations and clutter gradually leads to accidents. The material presents a step-by-step approach to enhancing safety: from daily five-minute workplace inspections and isolating faults into "quarantine" to drawing up checklists and key rules. These simple, regular actions help identify weak spots and fix accumulated shortcomings in a timely manner.
A Rational Approach: Principles and Rules for the Crew
The article explains how to protect a crew from recurring errors and unproductive loss of time in the workplace using key rules and small regular steps. The author explains how to independently create simple checklists, allocate fixed time for safety matters, and agree with the team on rules for performing operations. Such an approach helps to realize the necessary changes, eliminate risks in advance, and maintain order in the workplace.
Safe STARRT
The article examines the STARRT procedure—a tool for conducting briefings and safety analysis at the company's construction sites. Discussion of tasks and team risk assessment before starting work help identify hazards and determine safe work practices. The procedure ensures an understanding of all precautions and increases employee engagement in occupational health and safety issues.