#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.
Stop Inflicting Safety Culture and Start with Ourselves
Transforming the HSE function's image through specialist soft skills development, production internships, and the Safety Leadership project. Assessing worker perception using Patrick Hudson's ladder and targeted work with beliefs to increase trust levels.
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Strategic Health Protection Session: Q&A
A comprehensive approach to employee health management, including the use of anonymized VHI data to form risk groups, organizing "Health Schools," and nutrition control at remote sites. The practice demonstrates the importance of management engagement and adapting programs to the real needs of the staff, including the provision of medications on foreign projects.
"Nestro Wellness" – Employee Wellbeing Program at JSC Zarubezhneft
A comprehensive corporate employee wellbeing program covering physical, emotional, and family health. It includes creating health schools, a sports center, integrating families into corporate culture, and providing an anonymous psychological assistance service.
From Awareness to Action: The Secret of the Health School's Effectiveness
Implementation of a corporate Health School at remote sites to prevent occupational diseases and reduce cardiovascular risks. The project includes theoretical and practical training for employees on healthy lifestyles, proper nutrition, and physical exercises during their shift.
Unified Concept of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention for Employees of Zarubezhneft JSC and Contractors
A unified concept of cardiovascular disease prevention for employees and contractors based on a risk-based approach. It includes self-diagnosis, distribution into risk groups with differentiated control, suspension at high risks, as well as informal engagement methods such as the "Health School" and gamification.
How to Maintain the System Amid Multiple Changes
A strategy for recovering and stabilizing the safety system amid organizational changes and staff turnover. It includes simplifying change management procedures, revising motivation systems, empowering frontline employees, and developing leadership competencies.
Synergy of Safety Culture and Production
Integration of safety and production cultures through the adaptation of behavioral safety audits (BSA) and expanding the functionality of existing digital systems. Implementation of targeted BSAs combining risk and production process assessments, as well as using data from positioning, aerogas control, and electronic medical examination systems to improve efficiency without significant additional costs.
HSE Strategy: How Not to Put Safety on Pause When the Storm Hits
Adapting the HSE strategy during an economic crisis by transitioning to short sprints (Agile), focusing on the top 5 critical risks, and cross-functional financing of safety projects using adjacent department budgets. Digitizing routine processes to free up managers' time for developing behavioral safety.
Professional Skills Competition – Best HSE Specialist
For the first time, the Gazprom Energoholding Group of Companies held a competition for the best occupational health and safety specialist, aimed at motivating employees, enhancing their competencies, and sharing best practices. Participants competed in testing knowledge of regulatory and technical documentation, investigating workplace accidents, providing first aid, and selecting personal protective equipment. The competition helped identify the best employees and provided an opportunity for c...
Ambassadors: From Participation to Action
The article discusses the "Safety Ambassadors" project at JSC Kola MMC, aimed at developing a production culture and increasing the level of safety at the enterprise. Having completed training with experienced specialists, project participants identify workplace risks both in their own and in other departments, as well as detect threats to employees of third-party organizations. Their active work helps prevent accidents, build effective communication on occupational health and safety, and create...
Non-Financial Motivation: How Recognition Strengthens Safety Culture
The article discusses a system of non-monetary motivation and employee recognition as an effective tool for developing an industrial safety culture. Encouraging initiatives and personal contributions helps transition from top-down control to conscious responsibility, open discussion of risks, and the involvement of everyone. The material examines individual and collective recognition tools, as well as the rules for their implementation to form a sustainable environment in production.
Four Simple Solutions to Improve Communication with Workers
The article describes four practical approaches to informing and training employees in the field of occupational health and safety. The author shares experience in conducting five-minute safety briefings, joint safety instructions, walk-throughs, and sessions with feedback from workers. These solutions help identify the causes of violations, establish communication with staff, and control compliance with safety requirements more effectively.