#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.
Real-Life HSE
The author shares personal experience working as an occupational health and safety specialist with three types of employees and their different perceptions of safety rules. The material shows how individual tactics — from analyzing archived accidents to paying attention to the health of office workers — help build effective interaction. The article explains why the specialist's task is not control, but integrating safety into the work culture of production.
How to Make Content Viral and Engaging?
Konstantin Ermolaev, Head of the Safety Culture Promotion Department at Nornickel, continues a series of video notes with practical observations on building effective communications in occupational health and safety. The latest episode examines the topic of creating engaging and viral content. The video note demonstrates practical approaches to shaping communications for promoting a safety culture.
Mentorship Experience: An Inside Look
The author shares personal experience of mentoring in the field of occupational health and safety and explains why the transfer of practical knowledge from an expert to a novice specialist becomes a strategic necessity for building a safety culture. The article examines the personal benefits of mentoring for both sides: the expert gains the opportunity to structure their own experience and hone management skills, while the mentee receives proven action algorithms and support for confident career...
Rapid Hazard Identification Board: Why JSC Kola MMC Rewards Proactivity, Not Just Zero Errors
The article tells about the implementation of the "Quick Hazard Identification" (BIO) system at JSC Kola MMC, which transitioned from traditional punishment for errors to encouraging employees' active participation in occupational health and safety. The material shows how motivation for reporting risks and suggestions for improvement made it possible to promptly eliminate identified hazards and change the role of safety specialists. The company's experience demonstrates how encouraging initiativ...
Safety Barometer
The article is dedicated to the experience of Bystrinsky GOK in implementing a monthly occupational health and safety rating of departments, which allows for an objective evaluation of their preventive work. The material details the calculation methodology and specific evaluation criteria combining proactive and reactive indicators in a 70 to 30 ratio. The presented approaches will help adapt a balanced evaluation system and motivation mechanisms to the practices of one's own enterprise.
Emergency Drills as a Tool for Building a Safety Culture in an Organization
Implementation of six unconventional emergency drill formats (changing locations, role-playing with victims, quests, joint exercises with rescuers, unexpected timing, and combining with master classes). The practice aims to develop conscious personnel actions in abnormal situations and move away from a formal approach to evacuation.
Mentorship of Contractors as an Ecosystem of Trust and Safety Culture
Implementation of a contractor mentorship system where each contractor is assigned an active line manager. The mentor builds a partnership dialogue, jointly manages risks, and controls safety through regular meetings and digital dashboards.
Behavioral Safety Audit (BSA)
The article is devoted to behavioral safety audit (BSA) — a method based on observing workers' actions, assessing working conditions, and subsequently discussing the results. The material examines in detail the audit objectives, the procedure for conducting it, the regulations for compiling reports without punishing employees, and the recommended frequency of inspections. The publication explains how processing audit data helps identify "areas of concern", prevent injuries, and enhance the cultu...
How to Capture and Hold Attention?
Konstantin Ermolaev, Head of the Safety Culture Promotion Department at Nornickel, continues a series of video notes dedicated to effective communication in occupational health and safety. As part of this series, the author shares practical observations on building communication with colleagues and the audience. This issue is dedicated to how to attract and retain the audience's attention.
Employee Mental Health: Why Online Support Beats In-House Psychologists
Employee emotional burnout and stress directly affect business productivity, but hiring an in-house psychologist is limited by confidentiality issues and a lack of specialist options. Using the experience of OTEKO company as an example, the article explains the benefits of using a corporate online psychological support service that guarantees anonymity, access to experts, and convenient consultations for employees. Such a model allows paying only for services actually rendered and makes mental h...
From "Punisher" to Partner: How We Learned to Listen to Production Personnel at Kola MMC
The article describes the experience of occupational health and safety specialists at Kola MMC, who changed their role from controlling overseers to partnership cooperation with technological personnel. The author tells how the transition from formal inspections to open dialogue and support helps identify hidden production risks and develop a safety culture. The material shows why employee trust and their feedback become a key resource for the company.
Construction Site Environmental Specialists: How Professional Competitions Work
The article is dedicated to the experience of organizing a professional skills competition among environmental specialists in construction at the "Stroy-Hero" festival for specialists from PJSC Gazprom facilities. The author describes the execution of the creative, theoretical, and practical stages of the trials, including solution modeling and monitoring. The material outlines the participant evaluation criteria, the system of rewarding winners, and the results of their participation in the Int...